CHOREOGRAPHER AND DANCE TEACHER
Rachel began her dance training at Academy of Ballet and Jazz, where in 2010 she danced as a mouse in Canadian Ballet Theatre’s The Nutcracker (featuring dancers from the Kirov Ballet). She also performed in several musicals with CharActors Theatre Troupe (including 13, The Boyfriend and Seussical) as well as in New York state with French Woods Festival of the Performing Arts (including Funny Girl and Legally Blonde). Rachel went on to graduate from the Dance Performance Preparation program at George Brown College, the International Student Visa Program at the Broadway Dance Center in NYC (concentration in ballet and theatre) and Centennial College’s commercial dance program.
Some of her performance highlights include the 2015 Pan Am Games Closing Ceremonies, Expect Theatre’s To The Kid I Was (performed at Nuit Blanche 2015), Premier Awards, Inspire Awards as well as the The Odd and Okward Sirkus and Fever After Dark: Eclipse with Dark Dance Company.
As a teacher, she has worked across Canada, the USA and UK. Highlights include Inspire Ballet and Dance (UK), Tandem Studios (Toronto), Moving Pictures (Newfoundland) as well as the world famous Stagedoor Manor (USA) where she taught classes in ballet, jazz, modern, musical theatre and Fosse, worked as an assistant choreographer for four musicals – Leap of Faith, Seussical, All Shook Up and Oklahoma, and a choreographer for the play Picnic. She has also choreographed for many of Stagecoach Oakville and Mississauga's demos, showcases and productions, and Scarborough Music Theatre's production of Xanadu.
As the creator and lead choreographer of Dance : Corps, she has produced, directed and choreographed works for Another Day in COVID-19 Land: Flash Show (in partnership with The Dance Plug TO), the short film Dancing in a Time of Quarantine (Convergence Theatre's Covid Commissions), Counting Blessings (Grey Area Collective's Art in Isolation), "Normal People" (The Assembly Theatre's Window of Opportunity Festival) and Something Different (Nicole Decsey Dance Projects The Gallery Show). In 2023, her piece Awakening was a finalist at Danza Corpus' TEADE competition.
Rachel began her dance training at Academy of Ballet and Jazz, where in 2010 she danced as a mouse in Canadian Ballet Theatre’s The Nutcracker (featuring dancers from the Kirov Ballet). She also performed in several musicals with CharActors Theatre Troupe (including 13, The Boyfriend and Seussical) as well as in New York state with French Woods Festival of the Performing Arts (including Funny Girl and Legally Blonde). Rachel went on to graduate from the Dance Performance Preparation program at George Brown College, the International Student Visa Program at the Broadway Dance Center in NYC (concentration in ballet and theatre) and Centennial College’s commercial dance program.
Some of her performance highlights include the 2015 Pan Am Games Closing Ceremonies, Expect Theatre’s To The Kid I Was (performed at Nuit Blanche 2015), Premier Awards, Inspire Awards as well as the The Odd and Okward Sirkus and Fever After Dark: Eclipse with Dark Dance Company.
As a teacher, she has worked across Canada, the USA and UK. Highlights include Inspire Ballet and Dance (UK), Tandem Studios (Toronto), Moving Pictures (Newfoundland) as well as the world famous Stagedoor Manor (USA) where she taught classes in ballet, jazz, modern, musical theatre and Fosse, worked as an assistant choreographer for four musicals – Leap of Faith, Seussical, All Shook Up and Oklahoma, and a choreographer for the play Picnic. She has also choreographed for many of Stagecoach Oakville and Mississauga's demos, showcases and productions, and Scarborough Music Theatre's production of Xanadu.
As the creator and lead choreographer of Dance : Corps, she has produced, directed and choreographed works for Another Day in COVID-19 Land: Flash Show (in partnership with The Dance Plug TO), the short film Dancing in a Time of Quarantine (Convergence Theatre's Covid Commissions), Counting Blessings (Grey Area Collective's Art in Isolation), "Normal People" (The Assembly Theatre's Window of Opportunity Festival) and Something Different (Nicole Decsey Dance Projects The Gallery Show). In 2023, her piece Awakening was a finalist at Danza Corpus' TEADE competition.