Nativity Friday 29th November, 2.15pm and 7.30pm, St Mary’s Church, Stockport, SK1 1YG Free and no booking necessary. Nativity is a full-body collision with the enduring power of the myth and magic of the Virgin Mary.… Read More »November performances
Rachel has just finished her MA thesis, Entwining Solo Pathways Through a Duet Form: A Practice Based Investigation of Contact Improvisation. She is teaching lots this Autumn at Yorkshire Dance (Leaps and Bounds), CoActive, a… Read More »Autumn 2013 update
During February Rachel is busy with several projects. On Wednesday 6th February she will be performing her new solo Wolf in York (full details here). She is also in York to create a piece with students… Read More »February 2013 news
Documentation of two touring pieces that Rachel performed in during Summer 2012: Cheshire Dance’s The Moment When The Institute for Crazy Dancing’s Life Boat
After a very busy Summer of performing, Rachel is spending the Autumn working on her MA Creative Practice at Laban and teaching for Yorkshire Dance, Mind the Gap and Northern School of Contemporary Dance. Her current… Read More »Autumn update
Rehearsals with Cheshire Dance going well. First performance of The Moment When at Chester Racecourse next week
Rachel has received funding from Grants for the Arts to rework and tour Love in Idleness. The piece will be reworked in a residency at Burton Agnes stately home and performances will take place in… Read More »Love in Idleness tour confirmed!
Love in Idleness is a promenade performance which takes place in a garden. Combining dance, theatre and music, it is directed by dance artist Rachel Dean and loosely based around the themes of A Midsummer… Read More »Musician needed for dance theatre piece
Acclaimed performers Rachel Dean and Matthew Bellwood invite you to join them for two very different interpretations of Christmas in a special night of story, dance and music. Nativity is a full-body collision with the… Read More »A Christmas Cabaret – Rachel Dean and Matthew Bellwood
Rachel is teaching the following 3 day workshop in London: Intentions don’t count for much in Contact Improvisation except when they come through your body. This workshop will take the Clear Intentions theme in the… Read More »Teaching at International New Year Contact Improvisation Jam London