Jason Adam Jacobs
Jason Jacobs is a dancer, choreographer, educator and entrepreneur based in Frankfurt. He has choreographed and performed internationally with companies, including Hofesh Shechter, Johannes Wieland, Complexions Contemporary Ballet and North Carolina Dance Theater. In 2014 he received a Master in Contemporary Dance Education from the HfMDK Frankfurt. Together with choreographer Ekaterine Giorgadze he developed choreographic and research projects as MuddyBoots from 2012 - 2016. He teaches in dance institutions throughout Europe, including the Anton Bruckner University, Zurich University for the Arts and currently is on faculty at HFMDK Frankfurt. From 2018 - 2020 he was rehearsal director for tanzmainz at the Staatstheater Mainz. Together with Giorgadze, he coordinates the dance and kindergarten project Moove On from Tanzplattform RheinMain and CRESPO Foundation. In 2021 he began developing an AI- powered platform for learning dance movement with the Hungarian software engineers RoutePatch and the Hessian State Ballet. In 2022 he completed an Executive MBA at the Frankfurt School of Finance and Management and founded DanceBreak.de a healthTech Startup which offers guided contemporary dance movement sessions for people who suffer from issues related to sedentary working conditions. Jason’s mission is to find ways to make embodied knowledge visible and find ways to create sustainable structures for dance artists to spread the value of movement experiences.