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Jacob Hancock

Sponsored by the Fromer-McCree Family

Ballet West Academy Summer Intensive: 2017
Ballet West Academy PTD: 2017
Ballet West Academy Trainee: 2018
Joined Ballet West II: 2020
Joined Ballet West: 2022

Jacob Hancock is from Lehi, Utah.  He joined the Ballet West Academy as a trainee in 2018 and joined Ballet West II in 2020.  He was promoted to the main company in 2022.  With Ballet West, Jacob has danced roles in Stevenson’s Dracula, Christensen’s The Nutcracker, Smuin’s Romeo + Juliet, and Robbins’ Glass Pieces, among others.

Follow Jacob on Instagram @jakehancock2000.

Click below to see Jacob’s roles.

2025-26 Season

  • Romeo & Juliet (Smuin) Benvolio, Street Dancers
  • Les Noces (Nijinska)
  • The Nutrcracker (Christensen) Nutcracker Prince, Chinese Warrior, Russian Soloist, Arabian, Mother Buffoon

ON TOUR 

  • Light Rain (Arpino) - Arpino Dance Festival, Joyce Theatre, New York City

2024-25 Season

  • Jekyll & Hyde (Caniparoli)
  • Within the Golden Hour (Wheeldon)
  • The Nutcracker (Christensen) Prince
  • Cinderella (Ashton)
  • Symphony of Psalms (Kylián)
  • The Rite of Spring (Fonte)
  • Andromeda (Addison), Elis (Lima), Mass Hysterical (Adams) Works from Within (Rose Wagner Theater, Salt Lake) 

ON TOUR

  • Within the Golden Hour (Wheeldon) - Aspen District Theatre, Aspen, CO

2023-24 Season

  • Dracula (Stevenson)
  • The Firebird (Christensen)
  • Fever Dream (Whitehead)
  • Stars & Stripes (Balanchine)
  • The Nutcracker (Christensen)
  • Swan Lake (Sklute, after Petipa and Ivanov)
  • Blake Works I (Forsythe)
  • Play on Impulse (Quan) Choreographic Festival VI: Asian Voices (Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center, Salt Lake City)
  • Somewhere in Time (Fang) Choreographic Festival VI: Asian Voices (Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center, Salt Lake City)

ON TOUR

  • The Nutcracker (Christensen) - Kennedy Center, Washington D.C.

2022-23 Season

  • Onegin (Cranko)
  • Rodeo (DeMille)
  • The Nutcracker (Christensen)
  • The Sleeping Beauty (Sklute)
  • Les Noces (Nijinska) Groom's Friends

2021-22 Season

  • Dracula (Stevenson)
  • The Nutcracker (Christensen) Bear
  • Romeo + Juliet (Smuin)
  • Glass Pieces (Robbins)

ON TOUR

  • Romeo + Juliet (Smuin) – George S. and Dolores Doré Eccles Center, Park City, Utah