Rebecca Rice

Rebecca Rice

Rebecca Rice is an Boston-based modern dance choreographer whose work blends modern contemporary dance and ballet. Rebecca Rice comes from a dancing family where she trained with her grandmother Marion Rice in Fitchburg, Massachusetts. She is a member of Marion Rice Denishawn Dancers, a company dedicated to preserving early modern Denishawn dance, along with her mother (Mona Irvine Rice) and sister (Robin Rice). She studied and performed modern dance with Bill Evans and Utah Repertory Dance Theater at the University of Utah as well as in New York City and Boston. In 1998, Rebecca implemented the first choreography workshops with the Boston Ballet Company under Bruce Marks. [ [http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=WO&p_theme=wo&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0F2F694485EE87B2&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM Worcester Telegram & Gazette Archives ] ]

Rebecca is artistic director of REBECCA RICE DANCE, a company that focuses on blending ballet with the creative, innovative energy of 20-21st C. modern dance. Rebecca work includes new classical music and has collaborated with Pulitzer Prize winning composer, John Harbison, cellist Emmanuel Feldman and Burberry designer/photographer Martin Cooper. Her work has been shown as part of the Bank of America Celebrity Series (2006) [ [http://cseries.typepad.com/celebrityseries/2006/05/rebecca_rice_da.html Celebrity Series of Boston Blog: Everything was all Rice ] ] which included "Shortstories" a dance created to a score John Harbison created especially for her company, "Deep Dances" (2006) [ [http://www.schirmer.com/default.aspx?TabId=2420&State_2874=2&workId_2874=35757 Deep Dances, John Harbison ] ]

Rebecca Rice's signature style is her unique blend of creativity and musicality while being loyal to her classical roots in Denishawn, Ballet and Limon/Evans technique. Her company was invited to perform at Boston's Jordan Hall in 2006, MIT [ [http://209.85.215.104/search?q=cache:kqjGR2n-EnEJ:web.mit.edu/arts/announcements/index.html+rebecca+rice+dance+boston+globe&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=20&gl=us&client=firefox-a 403 Forbidden ] ] and at Jacob's Pillow . As a professional choreographer Rebecca has set new work on various modern and ballet companies including Boston Ballet II. [ [http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-56382140.html Boston Ballet turns spotlight on choreographic potential. | Article from The Boston Herald | HighBeam Research ] ]

The Boston reviewer Marcia B. Siegel [ [http://64.233.169.104/search?q=cache:Ye6SdED1_ZIJ:thebostonphoenix.com/boston/arts/dance/documents/02927799.htm+marcia+siegel+rebecca+rice&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=2&gl=us&client=firefox-a 403 Forbidden ] ] described her work as drawing from

"the theatricality of Denishawn dance, the extroverted skills of ballet and the physical investment of modern dance"

Rebecca's aunt, Carolyn Brown, was Merce Cunningham's leading dancer for 20 years and the author of "Chance and Circumstance: Twenty Years with Cage and Cunningham" [ [http://www.randomhouse.ca/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780394401911 RandomHouse.ca | Books | Chance and Circumstance by Carolyn Brown ] ]

References

External links

* http://rebeccarice.blip.tv
* http://www.rebeccaricedance.com/


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