REBECCA RICE DANCE -  MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY CHOREOGRAPHY

    Rebecca Rice's choreography reflects her strong grounding in both ballet and modern aesthetics. Primarily a modern dancer, Rebecca spent the past ten years teaching modern and choreography at the Boston Ballet under the tutelage of Bruce Marks, Anna Marie Holmes and Laura Young, and has choreographed four works on Boston Ballet II. Rebecca's choreographic work is musical, finely crafted and emotionally moving evolving from her early training in Ballet and Denishawn dance into her current synthesis that blends the creative and innovative movement concepts of modern and post-modern dance with the elegance and technical virtuosity of ballet.

A recipient of numerous awards in choreography and performance, in June 2000 she received an Artist Finalist Fellowship in Choreography from the Massachusetts Cultural Council. In April 2001, Rebecca presented an evening of her own work, Crosscurrents, at the Boston Ballet Grande Studio performed by members of the Boston Ballet Company, BBII and guest artists. Her choreography received the BEST OF BOSTON awards in 2003 by both the Boston Phoenix and the Boston Herald.

Rebecca is inspired by the new music of 21st century new-classical composers, such as Elena Ruehr, John Harbison and Steve Reich. As well, she is invigorated working with new electronic composers such as Martin Case and Grayson Hugh. And then, of course, there is Jonah Jones (1950) and Bach (17th C) ...

Theodore Bale of the Boston Herald wrote: "Crosscurrents is a breath of fresh air -- "extraordinary, inventive, stunning"

Contact: 978-852-3863

e-mail: rrdance@earthlink.net -- rrice@mit.edu