Rachel Skipor is a movement artist and dancer working within the realms of performance, choreographic design, and embodied education.  Weaving these passions together, she presents her own work, engages in project-based creations, and teaches ballet as professional or open level training with companies and studios across Europe. 

Rachel recently premiered her work "my sky. this body" with CORDILLERA (Raum für Körper und Utopien ) as part of their autumn program Relicarios//Sterben Noch Nicht Ganz.  In 2024, she was awarded a research residency to develop her first choreographic work “wide and wide, still flying" which premiered in Sarzana, Italy.  She has been a dancer in residence with the “Creative Gesture: Collective Composition Lab for Music and Dance” under the direction of Emily Molnar at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity (CA) and was a recipient of the Nō Studios Fellowship for Creative Professionals (US) which supported her independent research project “fern (unfurling).”

She is a licensed substitute teacher in the state of Wisconsin (US), previously holding full-time positions as an elementary school art teacher and interventionist.  Graduating summa cum laude, she holds a Bachelor of Science in Health Sciences with a minor in anthropology from Arizona State University.  Her degree alongside a special focus on topics such as ethnophysiology, ecological reciprocity, and infant development enriches her movement and teaching practices as she has studied a holistic systems approach to nourishment, learning, and meaning throughout the human life course.