Rachel Dean
Rachel Dean is a contemporary dance artist who performs, teaches and choreographs. She has danced Contact Improvisation for 14 years, is passionate about sharing her love of the form and regularly teaches dance undergraduates, open adult groups, adults with learning disabilities and professional dancers. Her choreography (e.g. Nativity, Wolf, Love in Idleness) is strongly influenced by her improvisation practice and she performs regularly with improvisation collective Mathilde. She recently completed her MA thesis 'Entwining Solo Pathways through a Duet Form: A Practice-based Investigation of Contact Improvisation.' http://racheljanedean.wordpress.com