The Collective - Yorkshire Dance Membership

Rachel Dean

Rachel DeanChoreographer
Practitioner / Facilitator
 
Rachel Dean is a contemporary dance artist based in Leeds who performs, teaches and choreographs. She has a particular interest in Contact Improvisation and collaboration with other artists and art forms and is part of improvisation performance collective Mathilde.
 
Her choreography has included Nativity, a solo contemporary Christmas show, Entwined, a dance theatre piece performed by a dressmaker and a dancer and Love in Idleness, a walkabout dance theatre piece made and performed in a garden on Midsummer Night.
 
She has performed for Institute for Crazy Dancing, Markus Hoft, Faceless Theatre and The Body Cartography Project as well as in her own work. She is passionate about sharing her love of dance and teaches Contact Improvisation and creative movement to open community classes, professional dancers, and adults with learning disabilities.
 
Rachel graduated from The Northern School of Contemporary Dance in 2006. In 2007 and 2009 she was selected for the International Danceweb Scholarship at Impulstanz Festival. She has a BSc in Psychology.
 
 
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