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. Some work includes features with Zana Bayne, Tag Heuer, Jaguar USA photographed by Omar Z Robles, Ladyfag, Susanne Bartsch’s Love Ball III, DSTM, Beacon’s Closet, Wide Rainbow, Sarai Mari, Dirty Churches, Nick Mauss’s ‘Transmissions’ Exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art, Kanye West’s Yeezy Season 7 “We Got Love” campaign photographed by Rita Minissi, Mika Tajima & Art Production Fund’s “PSYCHO GRAPHICS” digital billboard video campaign displayed at Sunset Boulevard, Los Angeles in 2019, Annelise Ogaard’s “Our Colleagues” thriller film, starring in Alexander Wang’s 2020 “Latex Girl” Diamanté collection campaign, Fleur Du Mal’s 2022 ‘Fleur Fatale’ shapewear line campaign, performance collaboration with Charlie Le Mindu and TR/ST for Galerie Perrotin, Mika Tajima’s second edit of “PSYCHO GRAPHICS” digital billboard video campaign displayed at Omotesando Crossing, Tokyo in 2024, and starring during her pregnancy in Olivia Burgess’s “REBIRTH” film. 

 

 

NY Fashion Week shows include Kahle Studio SS18 Presentation, opening for Lou Dallas SS19, Mused 2019 Presentation, walking for Namilia AW20 runway show, and participating while eight months pregnant for Imitation of Christ SS22. Featured publications include Interview Magazine, Paper, Vogue, Town and Country, Tim Walker for W Magazine, V Magazine, Vanity Fair, WWD, Architectural Digest, New York Times, Pointe Magazine, Dance Spirit, Antifragile, Hella Pinay, Artplay, S Magazine, Coeval, Style Caster, Racked NY, Clifford Jago for Dazed Magazine, and starring in Lampoon Magazine's Issue 21Prototype No.02 print cover.