BIO

Alexandra Jacob was raised in Berkeley, California, where she began her Vaganova ballet training at the age of 8. As a student, she was awarded full scholarships to attend intensive programs at the Dance Theatre of Harlem, Alonzo King Lines Ballet, and Joffrey Ballet. 

Alexandra began her professional career touring with the Dance Theatre of Harlem throughout the United States and internationally for 10 years, performing featured roles by Arthur Mitchell, Peter Pucci, Donald Byrd, Alvin Ailey, Christopher Huggins, Lowell Smith, Royston Maldoom, Michel Fokine, and George Balanchine.

After her company career, Alexandra took a different creative approach to dance, becoming a New York-based freelance artist. She has collaborated with Zana Bayne, Jaguar USA, Rita Minissi’s Things Power Themselves, Beacon’s Closet, Tag Heuer, Dirty Churches, Nick Mauss’s ‘Transmissions’ Exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art, Lou Dallas, DSTM, Kanye West’s Yeezy Season 7 “We Got Love” campaign, Ladyfag, Wide Rainbow, Sarai Mari, Charlie Le Mindu, Susanne Bartsch’s Love Ball III, Tim Walker for W Magazine, Clifford Jago for Dazed Magazine, Mika Tajima & Art Production Fund’s “PSYCHO GRAPHICS” digital billboard video campaign, and Lampoon Magazine's Issue 21Prototype No.02 print cover. She recently played her first film role in Annelise Ogaard’s upcoming “Our Colleagues” thriller, walked for designer Namilia’s AW20 runway show for New York Fashion Week, and starred in Alexander Wang’s “Latex Girl” Diamanté collection campaign.