Rachelle Anaïs Scott is a French-American choreographer and performing artist from New York City, currently based in Basel, Switzerland.
Her choreographic work has been presented by companies supporting emerging creators, and she has received awards from the Dare 2 Dance Film Festival, the Mannheim Arts and Film Festival, among others.

In 2022, she created a visual art and dance collaboration with Kunstmuseum Basel for the Picasso/El Greco exhibition. Rachelle was selected for Orsolina 28’s Call for Creation residency in June 2023, and her duet Us—created through a research grant from the Canton of Basel-Stadt Department of Culture—was presented at the Choreographic Competition Hannover 37 in June 2023. As part of the Next Steps program, Steps Festival is spotlighting Rachelle as an emerging choreographer, commissioning her to create new works for the St. Gallen Dance Company in 2025 and Theater Bern in 2026. She will also create a new work for NDT2 as part of their Up & Coming Choreographers program in 2026.
Rachelle received her dance training at The Ailey School and at Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts in NYC. At the end of her high school studies, she received the YoungArts/New York Regional Award in Dance and the Eiger Scholarship Award. She went on to attend The Juilliard School, where she earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Dance. After graduating, Rachelle became a member of Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet in New York City, a soloist with Nürnberg Ballett/Staatstheater in Germany, and is currently a member of Theater Basel. Throughout her career, she has performed works by Hofesh Shechter, Sharon Eyal, Alexander Ekman, Richard Wherlock, Ohad Naharin, Crystal Pite, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Andonis Foniadakis, Goyo Montero, Johan Inger, Jiří Kylián, among others.

Recently, she performed with the Hofesh Shechter Company at the Old Vic in London in the production Oedipus, starring Rami Malek and Indira Varma. Rachelle also joins Marco Goecke for his debut season as Artistic Director at Theater Basel in the 2025/2026 season. For her achievements in dance and the performing arts, she is a recipient of the Princess Grace Award (USA) and the Bavarian Arts Prize (Germany).