ABT principal dancer Marcelo Gomes, Robin Broidy, ABT director of development Peter Lyden, ABT executive director Rachel Moore, Ed Fox at "An Evening in San Marino" to benefit ABT.
Rachel Moore is the executive director of American Ballet Theatre.
Education: BA Brown University, Phi Beta Kappa, Honors (1992) MA in Arts Administration from Columbia University (1994) Fellow at the Executive Program for Nonprofit Leaders in Arts at Stanford Business School
Background: A former member of ABT’s corps de ballet from 1984-1988, Rachel S. Moore was named Executive Director of American Ballet Theatre in April 2004. Prior to her appointment, she served as Director of Boston Ballet’s Center for Dance Education (2001-04), North America’s largest professional ballet school. From 1998-2001, Moore served as Executive Director of Project STEP, a classical music school for students of color in Boston. Since 1994, she has held positions at leading dance and arts organizations including Managing Director of Ballet Theatre of Boston; Director and Coordinator of the Center for Community Development and the Arts at Americans for the Arts; and Development Officer for the National Cultural Alliance, both in Washington, DC. Moore also served as an Arts Administration Fellow at the National Endowment for the Arts (1990).
Moore served as adjunct faculty in the dance department of Emerson College from 1998-2000 and taught non-profit finance in the Graduate Program in Arts Administration at Boston University (2000). She currently teaches in the Arts Administration program at Columbia University, where she recently was awarded a Distinguished Alumni Award from Columbia University’s Teacher’s College. In 2006, Moore was inducted into the YWCA’s Academy of Women Leaders.
White House Presidential Scholar in 1982 Board member, Dance/USA Board member, National Dance Foundation of Bermuda Member, United States National Commission for UNESCO Member, Advisory Committee of Dance/NYC.
