Rebecca Rice is an award winning choreographer, respected teacher and the Artistic Director/Choreographer of Rebecca Rice Dance, a noted modern dance company in Boston. Her professional company has been presented professionally by the Boston Ballet, Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival, Bank of America Celebrity Series, The Boston Pops, World Music and the US State Department in Kazakhstan. It made its New York City debut in 2006 to high acclaim. As resident choreographer and teacher at the Boston Ballet for almost two decades, she created works on the company and school and taught modern dance, choreography, ballet and creative process. She created numerous works on BBII as well as organized Boston Ballet's first choreography workshops, "Studio 7 @ Boston Ballet." As an artist/educator she developed modern and choreography programs at MIT, Winsor and the Dana Hall and was artist-in-residence at Green Street Studios in 2007. As an award-winning dancer, she worked professionally with various artists and companies throughout the US including Pittsburgh Dance Alloy, Gerri Houlihan, Stephen Pelton, Bill Evans and Marianne Goldberg. Coming from a small town in MA, she grew up studying and performing the work of Ted Shawn and Ruth St. Denis with her grandmother, Marion Rice. Rebecca graduated with honors in modern dance from the University of Utah where she worked with Bill Evans, Ron Ruby, Ririe-Woodbury and Utah Repertory Dance Theatre. In New York City she worked with Viola Farber as well as studied at the Limon and Ailey Schools.She was a graduate teaching fellow at the University of Pittsburgh where she was a founding member of the Pittsburgh Dance Alloy Company. Rebecca recently returned from a 3 week trip to Kazakhstan where she was invited by the US State Department to be a "Cultural Envoy". She choreographed a new work, "Uplift" on the Samruk Dance Company as well as presented master classes and lectures on American contemporary modern dance.Specialties: modern dance, ballet, choreography, improvisation, consulting, privates, concert production, historical dance, innovative collaborations with artists, musicians/composers and other choreographers.