Originally from the Chicago area, Eve Jacobs is a dancer, choreographer, and educator based in NYC. Eve toured internationally with Jessica Lang Dance from 2015-2019, performing in over 85 cities at venues such as Lincoln Center, The Kennedy Center, and Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival.  She is currently a member of the Metropolitan Opera Ballet and Cornfield Dance, with whom she performs in both classic and new works. In addition, she has appeared in productions with The Merce Cunningham Trust, Douglas Dunn + Dancers, Washington National Opera, and Buglisi Dance Theater. 

First taking an interest in choreography during her time at Juilliard, Eve’s work has since been featured at the La Mama Moves! Dance Festival, The Estrogenius Festival, in a motion-capture short at the Tribeca Film Festival, and in two commissions for Columbia Ballet Collaborative. In addition, she has worked with both musicians and actors, serving as movement director for the short film Heart Like Thunder (555 Films) and for Bridge Production Group’s Richard III at Fourth Street Theater.

Eve holds a BFA from The Juilliard School, where she received the Hector Zaraspe Award for Choreography, and an MFA from CUNY’s Hunter College. There, her thesis paper Rehearsing Attention: Contemporary Dance as a Practice of Sustained Focus and its accompanying dance piece Four Statements on Attention were recognized with the 2024 Dean’s Award for Graduate Research. 

As an educator, Eve has served as a teaching artist for New York City Ballet, Battery Dance, and American Ballet Theatre, leading dance and movement workshops for NYC’s youth in public schools across four boroughs. More recently, she has shifted her teaching to undergraduate students, including those at DeSales University, Hunter College, and Marymount Manhattan College, where she is currently an Adjunct Professor of Dance. Last fall, Eve taught a seminar course at the Strother School of Radical Attention in Brooklyn, examining various facets of attention through the choreographic process, and encouraging students to create through this lens.