Rachel Rutherford

Rachel Rutherford (born Rachel Rutherford Englund Knapp) is a soloist with New York City Ballet.

She was born in New York City, the daughter of dancer and ballet teacher Gage Bush Englund.^[1] She began her training at age eight at the Joffrey Ballet School, entered the School of American Ballet in 1987, where she received the D.A.N.C.E. scholarship allowing her to study in Spring 1992 at the Royal Danish Ballet. She became an apprentice with NYCB the following year and joined the corps de ballet late 1995. The next Spring she appeared on the Late Show with David Letterman.

Ms. Rutherford was promoted to soloist in May 2002,^[2] danced that year in Chiaroscuro on the Live from Lincoln Center broadcast, New York City Ballet's Diamond Project: Ten Years of New Choreography, and again two years later dancing in Concerto Barocco on their Lincoln Center Celebrates Balanchine 100, both on PBS.

Roles

originated featured rôles Stephen Baynes Twilight Courante Miriam Mahdaviani Appalachia Waltz[3][4] Urban Dances Angelin Preljocaj La Stravaganza Jerome Robbins NY Export: Opus Jazz, NYCB premiere[5] Christopher Wheeldon Carnival of the Animals[6] Carousel (A Dance)[7] Slavonic Dances originated corps rôles Eliot Feld Organon Robert La Fosse and Robert Garland Tributary Peter Martins Concerti Armonici Reliquary Jerome Robbins Brandenburg West Side Story Suite

featured rôles George Balanchine Apollo Ballo della Regina Chaconne Concerto Barocco Divertimento No. 15 The Firebird The Four Temperaments The Nutcracker 'Jewels (Emeralds) Liebeslieder Walzer A Midsummer Night’s Dream Tschaikovsky Suite No. 3 La Valse Western Symphony Who Cares? August Bournonville Pas de Six Miriam Mahdaviani Correlazione Peter Martins The Sleeping Beauty Stabat Mater Swan Lake Thou Swell Alexei Ratmansky Russian Seasons Jerome Robbins Antique Epigraphs Dances at a Gathering Dybbuk Fancy Free Fanfare The Four Seasons Glass Pieces The Goldberg Variations Interplay In the Night Lynne Taylor-Corbett Chiaroscuro

References

1. "Gage Bush Englund, Ballet Mistress and Dancer, Dies at 77", New York Times, January 15th, 2009. Accessed 14 February 2013
2. NY Times, June 6th, 2002
3. NY Times Anna Kisselgoff, June 22nd, 2000
4. Dance Magazine Wendy Perron, June, 2000
5. NY Times, Anna Kisselgoff, April 28th, 2005
6. NY Times Gia Kourlas, June 20th, 2005
7. NY Times, Anna Kisselgoff, February 25th, 2003

External links

• NYCB website