Hailing from the serene shores of Nantucket, Massachusetts, Sylvie Raith is a multidisciplinary artist currently based in Savannah, Georgia. Her work is shaped by a lifelong devotion to ballet and the quiet rhythms of the sea, exploring memory, movement, and material storytelling. At 14, she left home to pursue classical ballet, inspired by her mother’s own journey as a dancer. After four years of intensive training at Boston Ballet, she was poised to begin her professional career with the San Diego Ballet Company—until the pandemic abruptly altered her course. In the stillness that followed, Sylvie began to rediscover her creativity beyond performance.

While earning her BFA in Fibers from the Savannah College of Art and Design, she spent three transformative years keeping ballet at a gentle distance. It wasn’t until her study abroad in Lacoste, France, during the fall of her senior year, that the stillness of the Provençal landscape and the deep sense of reflection it offered drew her back to dance. There, surrounded by stone, light, and timeworn paths, she found herself returning—softly, thoughtfully—to the movement and memory that shaped her. That season of introspection led her to reweave ballet into her practice with renewed meaning.