Rachel List is a member of the New York Baroque Dance Company. Currently she serves on the NYBDC board and also acts as rehearsal director and assistant stage director. As a dancer, she began in 1990 and continued through 2013 and performed soloist roles in venues such as Lincoln Center, the Kennedy Center, the Meyerson Center and the Handel Festival in Goettingen, Germany.
Previously she performed nationally and internationally with Les Grands Ballets Canadiens, The Vanaver Caravan, and Partridge/Benford/Dance/Music. Ms. List is an Associate Professor of Dance at Hofstra University and is also the Director of the Dance Program.
She has served on the ballet faculties of NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, Queens College, Barnard College, the Peridance Capezio Center, the Balettakademien in Stockholm, Sweden and Danse Projektet in Copenhagen, Denmark. She has also taught master classes in Baroque dance at a variety of schools and universities including the Juilliard School (Music Division), Vassar College, Swarthmore College, Columbia University, the Fashion Institute of Technology, Bard Graduate Center, and Texas Woman’s University. Ms. List was the movement consultant for the Pearl Theatre Company’s production of Marivaux’s Double Infidelities and the choreographer for their production of Wycherly’s The Gentleman Dancing Master. She was a dance consultant for New York City Opera’s production of Orpheus (Telemann) and also choreographed Dido and Aeneas (Purcell), The Tender Land (Copland), and Orpheus in the Underworld (Offenbach) for the Bronx Opera Company. In 2014, Ms. List was Catherine Turocy’s assistant for the direction and choreography for Les Fetes de L’Hymen et de L’Amour (Rameau) with Opera Lafayette and in 2017 she was the rehearsal director for Le Temple de la Gloire performed by the New York Baroque Dance Company in collaboration with Philharmonia Baroque. Ms. List created numerous works for her own company from 1985-’95 and continues to choreograph for students at Hofstra. She was the founder and director of Manchester Dance, a summer workshop in Vermont from 1987-’97 and is frequently on the faculty of the Bates Dance Festival in Maine. Ms. List holds a BA from Empire State College/SUNY and an MFA in Dance from the University of Wisconsin/Milwaukee.
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