{"id":6419,"date":"2026-01-08T14:30:40","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T19:30:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/theater-dance\/?page_id=6419"},"modified":"2026-01-08T14:30:41","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T19:30:41","slug":"rachel-ganteaume-richards","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/theater-dance\/rachel-ganteaume-richards\/","title":{"rendered":"Rachel Ganteaume Richards"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\"><div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-rounded\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/dance\/files\/2021\/10\/Rachel-Ganteaume-Richards-edited.webp\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/dance\/files\/2021\/10\/Rachel-Ganteaume-Richards-edited.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3831\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div style=\"height:60px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"mailto:rganteau@bates.edu\">rganteau@bates.edu<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Rachel Ganteaume Richards<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:10px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Studio Faculty (Ballet)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Associations<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:10px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Dance<br>Pettigrew Hall, Room 208<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">About<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Rachel Ganteaume Richards, born in Trinidad, first studied the Royal Academy Dance Syllabus, at The Caribbean School of Dance in Port of Spain. Her accomplishments there led her to being honored with a scholarship to the Joffrey School in New York City, where she also studied with David Howard and Maggie Black; performing feature roles in the Joffery II Company before joining the Joffrey Ballet in 1975. In the Joffrey Ballet, she performed principal roles in Oscar Ariaz\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Romeo and Juliet<\/em>, Gerald Arpino\u2019s <em>Sacred Grove on Mount Tamalpais<\/em>, Sir Frederick Ashton\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Jazz Calendar<\/em>, Jose Limon\u2019s&nbsp;<em>The Moor\u2019s Pavane<\/em>, and others by Agnes de Mille, Vaslav Nijinsky, Gerome Robbins and Twyla Tharp.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Her television performances include&nbsp;<em>Rodeo<\/em>, presented at the Kennedy Center at the request of the White House, marking the historic meeting of President Jimmy Carter and Deng Xiao Ping, then Vice Premier of the People\u2019s Republic of China. Moreover, her national television broadcast history included \u201cThe Joffrey Company at Wolftrap\u201d, and \u201cNureyev and The Joffrey Ballet on Broadway\u201d. In 1982 she moved to Maine; joining the faculty of the Ram Island Dance Center and later The Portland Ballet where in 1996, she performed \u201cTituba\u201d in Sam Kurkjian\u2019s&nbsp;<em>The Witches of Salem<\/em>. Rachel now teaches at the Portland School of Ballet and at The Dance Center in Auburn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>rganteau@bates.edu Rachel Ganteaume Richards Studio Faculty (Ballet) Associations DancePettigrew Hall, Room 208&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1736,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"class_list":["post-6419","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/theater-dance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/theater-dance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/theater-dance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/theater-dance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1736"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/theater-dance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6419"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/theater-dance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6420,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/theater-dance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6419\/revisions\/6420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/theater-dance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}