Jacob Thoman

Queer Filipino performing artist, Jacob is an established dancer and aspiring model based in New York City who has been an Artistic Associate with Gibney Company since fall of 2019. Coming into his own skin throughout the years of training, grooving, and performance, he has been playing and experimenting on the challenges of the truthful and empathetic voice through his creative practice.

At the hand of discovering his voice for creative advocacy, he is currently in the process of developing a digital multi-pronged platform for LGBTQ+ youth with the guidance of Gibney Company. This safe arena for expression focuses on highlighting communication and self care practices with oneself and others.

He has performed and been in the creative process with choreographers such as Crystal Pite, Alessandro Cerrudo, Mark Morris, and Roy Assaf, among others throughout his training at the Juilliard School, graduating in the class of 19’. Post departure from Juilliard, he worked with choreographer Akram Khan at the Shed before joining Gibney Company. In his creative journey he continues to carve his experience and thoughts through his body.

Jacob Thoman, a Filipino American (he/they), joined Gibney Company as an Artistic Associate in 2019. They graduated from The Juilliard School in 2019, under the direction of Larry Rhodes and Alicia Graf Mack where they were in creation and performed works by Roy Assaf, Crystal Pite, and Stephanie Batten Bland. Jacob was apart of the inaugural production of Dragon Spring Phoenix Rise at The Shed, choreographed by Akram Khan. In 2022 they took part in an artist exchange tour of Story, Story, Die with WinterGuests, created by Alan Lucien Øyen and dancers. Thoman spent childhood in Cincinnati, Ohio and Manila, Philippines, where they trained and performed between The School for Creative and Performing Arts, Cincinnati Ballet and Performing Arts and Exhale Dance Tribe, following Missy Lay Zimmer and Andrew Hubbard.

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