Rachel Rutherford


Rachel Rutherford is a former soloist with New York City Ballet.
Rutherford was born in New York City, the daughter of dancer and ballet teacher Gage Bush Englund. She began her training at age eight at the Joffrey Ballet School and entered the School of American Ballet in 1987. While attending the Chapin School, from which she eventually graduated in 1994, Rutherford also 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 the New York City Ballet 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 at the New York City Ballet in May 2002, 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. She retired in 2011.

Roles

originated featured roles

Stephen Baynes

  • ''Twilight Courante''

Miriam Mahdaviani

Appalachia Waltz
  • ''Urban Dances''

Angelin Preljocaj

  • ''La Stravaganza''

Jerome Robbins

NY Export: Opus Jazz, NYCB premiere

Christopher Wheeldon

Carnival of the AnimalsCarousel (A Dance)
  • ''Slavonic Dances''

originated corps roles

Eliot Feld

  • ''Organon''

Robert La Fosse and Robert Garland

Peter Martins

Concerti Armonici
  • ''Reliquary''

Jerome Robbins

Brandenburg

featured roles

George Balanchine

ApolloBallo della ReginaChaconneConcerto BaroccoDivertimento No. 15The FirebirdThe Four TemperamentsThe NutcrackerJewels (Emeralds)Liebeslieder WalzerA Midsummer Night's DreamTschaikovsky Suite No. 3La ValseWestern Symphony

August Bournonville

Miriam Mahdaviani

Peter Martins

The Sleeping BeautyStabat MaterSwan Lake

Alexei Ratmansky

Jerome Robbins

Antique EpigraphsDances at a GatheringDybbukFancy FreeFanfareThe Four SeasonsGlass PiecesThe Goldberg VariationsInterplay

Lynne Taylor-Corbett

  • ''Chiaroscuro''