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ABOUT
CHOREOGRAPHER/ PERFORMING ARTIST.
RACHELLE ANAIS SCOTT
MY MISSION.
Dance is a practice of attention and reckoning. It is a way to confront what is fleeting, fragile, or unspoken — to trace the contours of thought and feeling through the body. The work is never solitary; it exists in the exchange with others — collaborators, audiences, the larger world. My aim is not to decorate life but to examine it, to make visible the rhythms, tensions, and truths that often go unnoticed, and to hold them with clarity, rigor, and care.
BIOGRAPHY
Rachelle Anaïs Scott is a French-American choreographer and performing artist from New York City, currently based in Basel, Switzerland.
Her choreographic work has been presented by companies supporting emerging creators, and she has received awards from the Dare 2 Dance Film Festival, the Mannheim Arts and Film Festival, among others.
In 2022, she created a visual art and dance collaboration with Kunstmuseum Basel for the Picasso/El Greco exhibition, premiering in Basel. Rachelle was selected for Orsolina 28’s Call for Creation residency in June 2023, and her most recent duet, Us—created through a research grant from the Canton of Basel-Stadt Department of Culture—was presented at the Choreographic Competition Hannover 37 in June 2023. As part of the Next Steps program, Steps Festival is spotlighting Rachelle as an emerging choreographer, commissioning her to create new works for the St. Gallen Dance Company in 2025 and Theater Bern in 2026, and her creation for St. Gallen Dance Company will tour Switzerland in 2026. She will also create a new work for NDT2 as part of their Up & Coming Choreographers program in 2026.
Recently, she performed with the Hofesh Shechter Company at the Old Vic in London in the production Oedipus, starring Rami Malek and Indira Varma. Rachelle also joins Marco Goecke for his debut season as Artistic Director at Theater Basel in the 2025/2026 season.
Rachelle received her dance training at The Ailey School and at Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts in NYC. At the end of her high school studies, she received the YoungArts/New York Regional Award in Dance and the Eiger Scholarship Award. She went on to attend The Juilliard School, where she earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Dance. After graduating, Rachelle became a member of Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet in New York City, a soloist with Nürnberg Ballett/Staatstheater in Germany, and is currently a member of Theater Basel. Throughout her career, she has performed works by Hofesh Shechter, Sharon Eyal, Alexander Ekman, Richard Wherlock, Ohad Naharin, Crystal Pite, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Andonis Foniadakis, Goyo Montero, Johan Inger, Jiří Kylián, among others.
For her achievements in dance and the performing arts, Rachelle is a recipient of the Princess Grace Award (USA) and the Bavarian Arts Prize (Germany).
COMMUNITY
The Juilliard School
Bachelor of Fine Arts in Dance
Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet
Artistic Director:
Benoit Swan-Pouffer, Alexandra Damiani
Nürnberg Ballett Staatstheater
Artistic Director: Goyo Montero
Theater Basel
Artistic Director:
Richard Wherlock, Adolphe Binder,
Marco Goecke
Princess Grace Award
Dance Award, United States
Bavarian Arts Prize
Dance Award, Germany
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