Rachel Seeholzer (She/Her) was born and raised in Los Angeles, California where she first began her classical dance training at age 9. She set her focus in ballet after high school and traveled to further her training in cities such as Chicago, Seattle, San Francisco, Charlotte and Richmond. Rachel began dancing professionally in 2014 and has had the pleasure of working with the Charlottesville Ballet, The Suzanne Farrell Ballet, RVA Dance Collective, Oakland Ballet, Virginia Repertory Theatre, and Stavna Ballet. She has worked with acclaimed choreographers and teachers such as Daniel Duell, Sheila Rozann, Alonzo King, Patricia McBride, Suzanne Farrell, Kim Jones, Graham Lustig, Starr Foster, Colby Damon, and Maggie Small. Rachel began choreographing in 2011 when she set a contemporary ballet on the trainees and apprentices of the Charlotte Ballet, again in 2013 when she choreographed and staged the production of The Nutcracker on the Degas Dance Studio in Encino, California, and then most recently in 2017 when she set a neo-classical ballet on the trainees of the Charlottesville Ballet. Rachel has been teaching for over 10 years in both California and Virginia, working with students (ages 3-adult) in more than a dozen dance studios, schools, and academies.