Rachel has been named Howard University’s 2021 Spring Emerging Choreographer to Watch, Inaugural Gibney Dance Converge2Emerge Film Grant Recipient in 2021, International Choreography Online Scholarship Award Recipient, and 2022 Finalist for New Century Dance Project Professional / Emerging Choreographer Finalist.
In 2022, Rachel was assistant choreographer to David Parsons for About Sprouts - an immersive experience performed by the students of Ballet Tech NYC Public School at the Battery, a playground on the southern tip of Manhattan. She has also choreographed popular artist Alicia’s Walters’ music video “Standing at Your Doorstep” and created numerous films of her own: Hand of God, Adapt. Accept.Recover. , and many others. Harris is a teaching artist and choreographer for the Kennedy Center, MoveNYC, Windward School, and studios across the country.
choreography
Adapt. Accept. Recover.
Adapt. Accept. Recover. was developed through Jake Tribus’s Moving Toward Justice program, Converge2Emerge, with support from Gibney and the Bay & Paul Foundations.
Standing at Your Doorstep
Rachel choreographed Standing at Your Doorstep for popular singer Alicia Walter in 2021.
On.going
On.going was created in 2020 on Howard University’s BFA Dance Students with composition by Devan Monroe. Special thanks to Hope Boykin for bringing me on this project.
Hand of God
Hand of God was choreographed, danced, and co-directed by Rachel Harris and Samantha Sadoff in 2018.
Solo One
Solo One was created in 2020.
Direction and choreography by Rachel Harris in collaboration with Jacquelin Harris.