Jacquelyn Long

Jacquelyn Long began her ballet training under the direction of her mother, Suzanne Lownsbury, and Janina Michalski at Ballet Virginia. In 2010, she joined Houston Ballet II (HBII). After two years in the second company, Jacquelyn joined Houston Ballet as a Corps de Ballet member in 2012. Ms. Long was promoted to Soloist in 2016.

Ms. Long has performed principal roles such as the title role in Stanton Welch's Sylvia and Cinderella; Gamzatti in Stanton Welch’s La Bayadère; Hermia in John Neumeier’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Princess Stephanie in Sir Kenneth MacMillan’s Mayerling; Myrtha in Stanton Welch’s Giselle; Sugar Plum Fairy and Clara in Stanton Welch’s The Nutcracker; and Valencienne in Ronald Hynd’s The Merry Widow. She has also danced lead roles in George Balanchine’s Theme and Variations, Tchaikovsky Pas de Deux, Serenade, Emeralds, Concerto Barocco, and Symphony in C; Jiří Kylián's Stepping Stones, Dreamtime, and Wings of Wax; Justin Peck's Year of the Rabbit and Under the Folding Sky; William Forsythe’s Artifact Suite and In the middle somewhat elevated; Jorma Elo's ONE/end/ONE; Jerome Robbin’s In the Night and Fancy Free; Stanton Welch's Red Earth, Divergence, Maninyas, Tapestry, and Vi et animo; and Arthur Pita’s Good Vibrations.

Ms. Long is also a choreographer. She started this journey in a choreographic workshop with Houston Ballet in 2018. The pas de deux she created it just keeps going was chosen to be performed by the company at the Cynthia Woods Pavilion in 2019. In 2022, she made a solo for the company called Mechanisms that was performed in the Margaret Alkek Dance Lab. She created a full work for the company Illuminate that premiered on the Wortham Stage Dec. 1, 2023 in the Jubilee of Dance. Illuminate returns to the Wortham Theater in Houston Ballet's Rock, Roll, and Tutus program Fall of 2025.