JACOB Taylor
company ARTIST
School ASSISTANT

Jacob Taylor received his formative training at Boulder Ballet School and in the summer programs of The School of American Ballet, Kansas City Ballet, Kaatsbaan, and Perry Mansfield. Mr. Taylor is a graduate of the Ballet Performance Program at Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music where he was coached by Violette Verdy. At IU he performed in works by George Balanchine, Martha Graham, Agnes de Mille, Dwight Rhoden, Paul Taylor, Twyla Tharp and Antony Tudor. His professional performance career includes dancing for such companies as Boulder Ballet, Eglevsky Ballet, FJK Dance, Lydia Johnson Dance, New Jersey Ballet, and Staten Island Ballet. Mr. Taylor has taught ballet classes at Peridance Capezio Center in New York City and has choreographed a full length opera for Indiana University Opera Theatre. He created a new work for Pennsylvania Ballet’s Shut Up and Dance Festival in 2020.  His acting credits include HBO’s Marvelous Mrs. Maisel and American Ballet Theatre’s Onegin and Whipped Cream at the Metropolitan Opera.