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PACIFIC NORTHWEST BALLET
Corps de Ballet
Rachel Foster is from Pittsburgh Pennsylvania. She trained at Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre School and attended summer courses at the School of American Ballet and San Francisco Ballet School. She joined Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre in 1998 and joined Pacific Northwest Ballet as a member of the corps de ballet in 2002.
Ms. Foster has danced leading roles in George Balanchine's Emeralds and Symphony in Three Movements; Todd Bolender's Souvenirs; Val Caniparoli's The Bridge, Lambarena, and Torque; Ulysses Dove's Red Angels; Nacho Duato's Rassemblement; William Forsythe's In the middle, somewhat elevated; Paul Gibson's The Piano Dance; Kent Stowell's Silver Lining; Twyla Tharp's In the Upper Room and Nine Sinatra Songs; and Christopher Wheeldon's Polyphonia. She has also performed Molissa Fenley's solo State of Darkness.
She originated a leading role in Victor Quijada's Suspension of Disbelief and featured roles in Dominique Dumais' Time and other Matter, Nicolo Fonte's Within/Without; Paul Gibson's Sense of Doubt; and Christopher Stowell's Quick Time.
She has also been featured in Balanchine's Concerto Barocco, The Four Temperaments, La Sonnambula, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Serenade, and Symphony in C; Ronald Hynd's The Merry Widow and The Sleeping Beauty; Stowell's Nutcracker, Swan Lake, and The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet; and Glen Tetley's The Rite of Spring.
Photo: Angela Sterling.
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