Jacobi Alvarez combines the technologies of dance and film to create integrative video art that goes beyond the conventions of recorded performance, music video, or narrative.
Jacobi’s dance film Glamour Baby is an Official Selection at Austin Dance Festival, 40North Dance Film Festival, ScreenDance Miami, and London Experimental Film Festival. Her film Recipe For Working On Your Art was shown at ATX Summer Dance Film Festival and “A Little Bit Like Life” at SMUSH Gallery. Her film Submerge was shown at ATX Summer Dance Film Festival. She danced in Glass City Films’ Limerence, Official Selection at New York City Independant Film Festival and Remi Winner at Worldfest-Houston International Film Festival. She also shot and edited Lucid Banter’s Seasons Project, and edited Virginia, a project danced and shot on bicycles for On The Route.
As a dancer, performance artist, and ensemble member, she has created immersive theatre with Voyeur Theatre Collective in “Entrainment” in 2015 and with Striding Lion Performance Group as Wrath in “The Great and Terrible Doctor Faustus” in 2016. She’s a Performance Studies Major from Northwestern University Class of 2015.