Grant Jacoby is a New York City based choreographer, performer, and teacher. He graduated Magna Cum Laude from Connecticut College, where he received his BA in Dance and Theater, and from Sarah Lawrence College, where he received his MFA in Dance. He was a company member of Quicksilver Dance and Lorraine Chapman The Company, and has performed in works by Merce Cunningham, Trisha Brown, David Parke
r & The Bang Group, Mark Dendy, Annie Kloppenberg, Lauren Simpson, and Audrey MacLean, among others. He has presented his choreography nationally and abroad in venues such as La MaMa Experimental Theater Club, Triskelion Arts, Movement Research, Green Space, The Dance Complex (Boston Globe Critic's Pick 2014 & 2015), Green Street Studios (Boston Globe Critic's Pick 2016), AS220 (Dorry Award 2016), RAW Boston (2014 Performer of the Year), Les Champs Melisey, and The International Festival of Arts & Ideas. He has had residencies at The Dragon's Egg, SMUSH Gallery, Spoke the Hub, Green Street Studios, The Dance Complex, and as a part of The Shaker Dance Revival Project. He has set choreographic work at Babson College, Endicott College, and OnStage Dance Company, and has choreographed numerous musicals including the premiere workshop and production of Friday the 13th: The Musical. As a teacher, he has been on faculty at Boston Ballet, The Boston Conservatory, Sarah Lawrence College, and The National Theater Institute.
