biography.

Rachel Harris is a dancer, choreographer, and director for stage, film, and immersive theater based in New York City. The North Carolina native graduated Cum Laude from the University of Southern California Glorya Kaufman School of Dance under Jodie Gates where she performed the works of William Forsythe, Crystal Pite, Paul Taylor, Jiří Kylián, Barak Marshall, d Sabela Grimes, George Balanchine, Jerome Robbins, and more. Her credits include Metropolitan Opera, Parsons Dance, NVA and Guests, Traverse City Dance Project, Zeitgeist Dance Theatre, and Monica Bill Barnes & Company. Rachel is a 2023 Bessie Award Nominee for Outstanding Performer, and she most recently performed as a Principal Soloist in The Listeners at Chicago Lyric Opera and Life and Trust Emursive Productions.

Throughout her career, she has worked with William Forsythe, Kyle Abraham, Rena Butler, Marjani Forté-Saunders, Chanel de Silva, Hope Boykin, Stephanie Batten Bland, Rickey Tripp, Jakevis Thomason, Robert Battle, Jennifer Lott, Nicole Von Arx, Elena Vazintaris, David Parsons, Rick and Jeff Kuperman, Robert Battle, Patrick Corbin, Jodie Gates, Frank Gatson, Amy Hall Garner, Francisco Gella, Jae Man Joo, Saleemah E Knight, Darrell Grand Moultrie, Matthew Neenan, Kerry Nicholls, Dwight Rhoden, Desmond Richardson, Rubberlegz, Yusha Marie-Sorzano, and Didy Veldman.