Rachel Rizzuto is a performer and choreographer who believes in spectacle, gesture, text, song, and the inevitability of humor. She spent nine years dancing for the Brooklyn-based company Mari Meade Dance Collective/MMDC before earning her MFA in dance at the University of Illinois in 2021.

 

For the last six Valentine’s Days, Rizzuto has self-produced Love Sucks, a perennially-changing work for a large cast that utilizes pop music, dance, song, and text to illustrate the inescapable heartache that accompanies falling in and out—mostly out—of love. She served as an editor for Dance Teacher magazine from 2012–18 and remains one of its and Dance Magazine's contributing writers. Rizzuto graduated from the University of Southern Mississippi in 2009 with a BFA in dance and a BA in English.