About

Rubinald pronk

The Hague, Netherlands

07/17/1979

Drew Jacoby, hailed “guest dance goddess” by Ballet-Dance Magazine, is from Boise, Idaho. She received her training at the School of American Ballet, San Francisco Ballet, and Pacific Northwest Ballet. While at PNB, she performed ballets by George Balanchine, Kent Stowell, Val Caniparoli, and Michael Smuin. At 17 Drew joined Lines Ballet in San Francisco, where she was made a principal dancer and had works created on her by award-winning choreographer Alonzo King. She was a guest star in Sylvie Guillem’s 2005 Japan tour, performing featured roles in ballets by Sir Kenneth MacMillan and Alberto Alonso. Since moving to New York CIty in 2007, she has had works created on her by acclaimed choreographers Lar Lubovitch  and Dwight Rhoden. While dancing with Complexions Contemporary Ballet for a portion of 2007, she was featured in William Forsythe’s Herman Schmerman, alongside Desmond Richardson. A Princess Grace Award winner, a Level 1 Award recipient from the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts, and Dance Magazine’s “It” Girl, Drew is “known for her sumptuous extensions and powerhouse attack.” (Dance Magazine) Jacoby & Pronk are also principal dancers with Morphoses/The Wheeldon Company and guest dancers with Dutch National Ballet.

drew jacoby

Boise, Idaho, USA

09/02/1984

Rubinald Rofino Pronk was born and raised in The Hague, Netherlands. He received his training at the Royal Conservatory of Dance and joined the Dutch National Ballet at 16, where he danced as a soloist and performed works by several leading choreographers such as William Forsythe, George Balanchine, Martha Graham, Frederic Ashton, and Jacopo Godani, to name a few.  In 2006  he joined Dwight Rhoden and Desmond Richardson’s Complexions Contemporary Ballet in New York City, where he toured extensively and performed works by Dwight Rhoden and Ulysses Dove. His awards include the prestigious Alexandre Radius Prize for the best dancer of Holland and two nominations for the VSCD “Silver Swan” award for best performance of the year. Elsevier Magazine named him “Holland’s sexiest ballet dancer ever.” Jacoby & Pronk are also principal dancers with Morphoses/The Wheeldon Company.

Chemistry—on and off the stage. That is the catalyst for this most intriguing partnership. A partnership characterized by a genuine kinship and mutual respect, manifested in a captivating balance of artistic virtuosity, incomprehensible athleticism, and disorienting beauty. This is a combination of two of today’s most extraordinary dancers coming together as partners to perform, collaborate, and share their love for innovation in dance. Their mission is to compile a distinctive repertoire that enables dance presenters to offer their audiences something fresh, exhilarating, and awe-inspiring. Their ultimate goal is to fuse commercial and concert dance and start an original show that will tour. It will be comprised of out-of-the-box concepts involving dance, art, fashion, music, and technology with hopes that it will appeal to a broader scope of audience and democratize the beauty of dance.

THE PARTNERSHIP