Curriculum Vitae
Grant Jacoby
Dancer, Choreographer, Teacher
16 Settlers Lane, Westfield, NJ 07090
617-775-5006
[email protected]
http://grantjacobyanddancers.com
Education
Sarah Lawrence College | 2016-2018
Master of Fine Arts in Dance
Studied with John Jasperse, Sara Rudner, Diane Madden, Holley Farmer, Jennifer Nugent, Peggy Gould, Kathy Westwater, Beth Gill, Kyle Bukhari, Charmaine Warren, Dean Moss, Julianna May, Paul Singh, Jodi Melnick, Kathy Kaufman, Beverly Emmons, Eleanor Hullihan, Merceditas Manago-Alexander, Pepper Fajans, Nora Chipaumire, Silas Reiner, Molly Lieber, and Eleanor Smith
Connecticut College | 2009-2013
Bachelor of Arts in Dance, Theater; Magna Cum Laude
Studied with David Dorfman, Lisa Race, Heidi Henderson, Adele Myers, Shani Collins-Achille, Shawn Hove, Susan Connolly, Richard Schenk
David Dorfman Dance Intensive | 2015
Studied with David Dorfman, Lisa Race, Kendra Portier, Karl Rogers, Bryan Strimpel, and Cristina Robson
Bates Dance Festival | 2014
Studied with Mark Dendy, Jennifer Nugent, Robbie Cook, Chris Aiken & Angie Hauser
MADE in France | 2012
Studied with David Dorfman, Peter Savel, David Marchant, Liz Claire, and Laura Ann Samuelson
Trinity/La MaMa Urban Arts Semester | 2011
Studied with Michael Burke, Karen Bernard, Sasha Soreff, and Diane Laurenson
Teaching: Long-Term Positions
National Theater Institute | Waterford, CT | 2017-2021
Adjunct Faculty
Movement for Actors & Dance
Sarah Lawrence College | Bronxville, NY | 2017-2018
Guest Faculty
Contemporary Dance
Boston Ballet | Boston, MA | 2014-2016
Teaching Artist in Education & Community Initiatives Department
Ballet, contemporary, and creative movement (Ages 8-14)
The Boston Conservatory | Boston, MA | 2016
Adjunct Faculty
Movement for Actors
Spotlight Summer Theater Workshop | Weston, MA | 2015-2017
Lead Choreographer & Dance Teacher
Musical Theater Productions & Contemporary Dance (Ages 6-18)
Brookline Academy of Dance | Brookline, MA | 2015-2016
Faculty
Modern, Jazz, Street Jazz, Junior Modern Company (Ages 7-16)
Sereda DanceWorks | Natick, MA | 2015-2016
Faculty
Musical Theater Dance & Choreographic Composition (Ages 10-17)
The Roxbury Latin School | West Roxbury, MA | 2014-2016
Choreographer
Musical Theater Productions (Ages 14-18)
North End Music & Performing Arts Center | Boston, MA | 2015-2016
Choreographer
Musical Theater Productions (Ages 5-12)
OnStage Dance Company | Somerville, MA | 2014-2015
Faculty & Guest Choreographer
Modern Dance (Ages 21+)
Teaching: Guest Positions
Endicott College | Beverly, MA | 2016-2022
Guest Choreographer
Contemporary Dance
Center For Dance Arts | Farmingdale, NJ | 2021-2022
Guest Teacher
Advanced Ballet
PEAK Performing Arts Center | Ridgefield, NJ| 2022
Guest Teacher
Ballet
College of the Holy Cross | Worcester, MA | 2018
Guest Teacher, Choreographic Presenter
Contemporary Dance
Moving Target | Cambridge, MA | 2018
Guest Teacher
Contemporary
Midday Movement Series | Cambridge, MA | 2017
Guest Teacher
Contemporary
Babson College | Wellesley, MA | 2015
Guest Choreographer
Contemporary Dance
Next Door Theater | Winchester, MA | 2015
Choreographer
Musical Theater Production
Ballet Arts Centre of Winchester | Winchester, MA | 2015
Guest Teacher
Musical Theater Dance
Administrative Work
American Repertory Ballet & Princeton Ballet School | Princeton, NJ | 2024-present
Director of Marketing
Morven Museum & Garden | Princeton, NJ | 2022-2024
Marketing Manager
DANCE NOW | New York, NY | 2021-2022
Marketing & Community Manager
Ballet Tech |New York, NY | 2018-2020
Dance Program Assistant
Sarah Lawrence College | Bronxville, NY | 2017-2018
Graduate Dance Assistant
Green Street Studios | Cambridge, MA | 2014-2016
Work Study Coordinator
Choreography (Selected)
beach piece | 2025
Performed at Judson Church, Art House Productions, Triskelion Arts, Movement Research, and Green Space
Even the trees know it | 2022
Performed at The Mark O’Donnell Theater and mignolo arts center
AMERICAN PEARL | 2019
Performed at Triskelion Arts, Movement Research, The Dance Complex, and the College of the Holy Cross
wish you were here. | 2018
Performed at Green Space, Sarah Lawrence College, The Dance Complex, and Mark Morris Dance Studio
Wyoming | 2017
Performed at The Dance Complex, Movement Research, Sarah Lawrence College, Bard College, Triskelion Arts, and Green Space
bitte, or before we were birds | 2016
Performed at Green Street Studios, Triskelion Arts, and North End Music & Performing Arts Center
With talons for teeth | 2015
Performed at AS220, North End Music & Performing Arts Center, The Dance Complex, and Green Street Studios
I got a Master’s Degree in this. | 2014
Performed at Cambridge River Festival, North End Music & Performing Arts Center, Dance For World Community, The Dance Complex, The International Festival of Arts & Ideas
Nocturne for an afternoon | 2014
Performed at The Studio at 550, Canterbury Shaker Village, and The Dance Complex
blush blister burst | 2014
Performed at Artbeat, The Dance Complex, Green Street Studios
Her name was Frances Gumm | 2013
Performed at Green Street Studios, The International Festival of Arts & Ideas, The Dance Complex, and Connecticut College
Performance (Selected)
Choreographer Venue Year
American Repertory Ballet’s The Nutcracker State Theatre New Jersey 2025
American Repertory Ballet’s The Nutcracker Two River Theater 2025
Ethan Stiefel & Johann Kobborg’s Giselle New Brunswick PAC 2025
Audrey MacLean ArtsOnSite 2025
Audrey MacLean Boston Center for the Arts 2024
Trisha Brown (Reset by Diane Madden) Sarah Lawrence College 2017
Merce Cunningham (Reset by Holley Farmer) Sarah Lawrence College 2017
David Parker & The Bang Group A.R.T./Club Oberon 2017
Lorraine Chapman The Dance Complex 2016
Audrey MacLean A.R.T./Club Oberon 2016
Adriane Brayton The Dance Complex 2016
Mariah Steele Montreal Fringe Festival 2015
Mark Dendy Bates Dance Festival 2014
Annie Kloppenberg Green Street Studios 2014
Lauren Simpson Green Street Studios 2014
Rachel Pritzlaff Triskelion Arts 2014
Ayano Elson AUNTS 2013
Dana McIntosh La MaMa ETC 2011
Grant Jacoby
Dancer, Choreographer, Teacher
16 Settlers Lane, Westfield, NJ 07090
617-775-5006
[email protected]
http://grantjacobyanddancers.com
Education
Sarah Lawrence College | 2016-2018
Master of Fine Arts in Dance
Studied with John Jasperse, Sara Rudner, Diane Madden, Holley Farmer, Jennifer Nugent, Peggy Gould, Kathy Westwater, Beth Gill, Kyle Bukhari, Charmaine Warren, Dean Moss, Julianna May, Paul Singh, Jodi Melnick, Kathy Kaufman, Beverly Emmons, Eleanor Hullihan, Merceditas Manago-Alexander, Pepper Fajans, Nora Chipaumire, Silas Reiner, Molly Lieber, and Eleanor Smith
Connecticut College | 2009-2013
Bachelor of Arts in Dance, Theater; Magna Cum Laude
Studied with David Dorfman, Lisa Race, Heidi Henderson, Adele Myers, Shani Collins-Achille, Shawn Hove, Susan Connolly, Richard Schenk
David Dorfman Dance Intensive | 2015
Studied with David Dorfman, Lisa Race, Kendra Portier, Karl Rogers, Bryan Strimpel, and Cristina Robson
Bates Dance Festival | 2014
Studied with Mark Dendy, Jennifer Nugent, Robbie Cook, Chris Aiken & Angie Hauser
MADE in France | 2012
Studied with David Dorfman, Peter Savel, David Marchant, Liz Claire, and Laura Ann Samuelson
Trinity/La MaMa Urban Arts Semester | 2011
Studied with Michael Burke, Karen Bernard, Sasha Soreff, and Diane Laurenson
Teaching: Long-Term Positions
National Theater Institute | Waterford, CT | 2017-2021
Adjunct Faculty
Movement for Actors & Dance
Sarah Lawrence College | Bronxville, NY | 2017-2018
Guest Faculty
Contemporary Dance
Boston Ballet | Boston, MA | 2014-2016
Teaching Artist in Education & Community Initiatives Department
Ballet, contemporary, and creative movement (Ages 8-14)
The Boston Conservatory | Boston, MA | 2016
Adjunct Faculty
Movement for Actors
Spotlight Summer Theater Workshop | Weston, MA | 2015-2017
Lead Choreographer & Dance Teacher
Musical Theater Productions & Contemporary Dance (Ages 6-18)
Brookline Academy of Dance | Brookline, MA | 2015-2016
Faculty
Modern, Jazz, Street Jazz, Junior Modern Company (Ages 7-16)
Sereda DanceWorks | Natick, MA | 2015-2016
Faculty
Musical Theater Dance & Choreographic Composition (Ages 10-17)
The Roxbury Latin School | West Roxbury, MA | 2014-2016
Choreographer
Musical Theater Productions (Ages 14-18)
North End Music & Performing Arts Center | Boston, MA | 2015-2016
Choreographer
Musical Theater Productions (Ages 5-12)
OnStage Dance Company | Somerville, MA | 2014-2015
Faculty & Guest Choreographer
Modern Dance (Ages 21+)
Teaching: Guest Positions
Endicott College | Beverly, MA | 2016-2022
Guest Choreographer
Contemporary Dance
Center For Dance Arts | Farmingdale, NJ | 2021-2022
Guest Teacher
Advanced Ballet
PEAK Performing Arts Center | Ridgefield, NJ| 2022
Guest Teacher
Ballet
College of the Holy Cross | Worcester, MA | 2018
Guest Teacher, Choreographic Presenter
Contemporary Dance
Moving Target | Cambridge, MA | 2018
Guest Teacher
Contemporary
Midday Movement Series | Cambridge, MA | 2017
Guest Teacher
Contemporary
Babson College | Wellesley, MA | 2015
Guest Choreographer
Contemporary Dance
Next Door Theater | Winchester, MA | 2015
Choreographer
Musical Theater Production
Ballet Arts Centre of Winchester | Winchester, MA | 2015
Guest Teacher
Musical Theater Dance
Administrative Work
American Repertory Ballet & Princeton Ballet School | Princeton, NJ | 2024-present
Director of Marketing
Morven Museum & Garden | Princeton, NJ | 2022-2024
Marketing Manager
DANCE NOW | New York, NY | 2021-2022
Marketing & Community Manager
Ballet Tech |New York, NY | 2018-2020
Dance Program Assistant
Sarah Lawrence College | Bronxville, NY | 2017-2018
Graduate Dance Assistant
Green Street Studios | Cambridge, MA | 2014-2016
Work Study Coordinator
Choreography (Selected)
beach piece | 2025
Performed at Judson Church, Art House Productions, Triskelion Arts, Movement Research, and Green Space
Even the trees know it | 2022
Performed at The Mark O’Donnell Theater and mignolo arts center
AMERICAN PEARL | 2019
Performed at Triskelion Arts, Movement Research, The Dance Complex, and the College of the Holy Cross
wish you were here. | 2018
Performed at Green Space, Sarah Lawrence College, The Dance Complex, and Mark Morris Dance Studio
Wyoming | 2017
Performed at The Dance Complex, Movement Research, Sarah Lawrence College, Bard College, Triskelion Arts, and Green Space
bitte, or before we were birds | 2016
Performed at Green Street Studios, Triskelion Arts, and North End Music & Performing Arts Center
With talons for teeth | 2015
Performed at AS220, North End Music & Performing Arts Center, The Dance Complex, and Green Street Studios
I got a Master’s Degree in this. | 2014
Performed at Cambridge River Festival, North End Music & Performing Arts Center, Dance For World Community, The Dance Complex, The International Festival of Arts & Ideas
Nocturne for an afternoon | 2014
Performed at The Studio at 550, Canterbury Shaker Village, and The Dance Complex
blush blister burst | 2014
Performed at Artbeat, The Dance Complex, Green Street Studios
Her name was Frances Gumm | 2013
Performed at Green Street Studios, The International Festival of Arts & Ideas, The Dance Complex, and Connecticut College
Performance (Selected)
Choreographer Venue Year
American Repertory Ballet’s The Nutcracker State Theatre New Jersey 2025
American Repertory Ballet’s The Nutcracker Two River Theater 2025
Ethan Stiefel & Johann Kobborg’s Giselle New Brunswick PAC 2025
Audrey MacLean ArtsOnSite 2025
Audrey MacLean Boston Center for the Arts 2024
Trisha Brown (Reset by Diane Madden) Sarah Lawrence College 2017
Merce Cunningham (Reset by Holley Farmer) Sarah Lawrence College 2017
David Parker & The Bang Group A.R.T./Club Oberon 2017
Lorraine Chapman The Dance Complex 2016
Audrey MacLean A.R.T./Club Oberon 2016
Adriane Brayton The Dance Complex 2016
Mariah Steele Montreal Fringe Festival 2015
Mark Dendy Bates Dance Festival 2014
Annie Kloppenberg Green Street Studios 2014
Lauren Simpson Green Street Studios 2014
Rachel Pritzlaff Triskelion Arts 2014
Ayano Elson AUNTS 2013
Dana McIntosh La MaMa ETC 2011