Rachel brings over 30 years of experience in the dance and entertainment industry. She is a highly skilled and successful dance teacher and choreographer.
She began her dance training with Ms Shelley Wright. She later studied a wide range of dance styles with one of Australia’s best dance teachers, Gwen Mackey, OAM. At 18, Rachel moved to Melbourne and studied Performing Arts and Dance full-time under scholarship at the Dance Factory.
After completing full-time training, Rachel trained students at elite performing arts schools throughout Victoria. She later returned to Adelaide and gained a Teaching Diploma in COMDANCE Theatrical and Classical Dance under Ms Gwen Mackey.
Rachel teaches all forms of dance and performance skills, educating students in Melbourne, Perth, Brisbane, and Adelaide. Since opening the studio in 2008, RSDS students have enrolled in tertiary courses in Perth, Melbourne, and Sydney. They have also joined specialist performing arts schools in Adelaide, achieved great success in eisteddfods in SA and interstate, and many now forge professional careers in Dance and Musical Theatre.
Rachel is passionate about her studio and fully committed to helping each RSDS student achieve their dance goals.
Rachel’s studio aims to offer classes that are fast-paced, challenging, & fun whilst also creating a supportive, caring environment.
Rachel began her professional career at the age of nine performing in JC Williamson’s production of “Annie” at the Festival Theatre, and from there she was a member of the Australian Dance Theatre’s Children’s Company for four years. Rachel participated in Dance Eisteddfods in both SA and Vic for many years and gained skills in piano, cello and vocal training during her youth. Rachel has worked extensively in the entertainment industry as a singer, dancer, and actor.
Some of her experience includes theatre restaurant shows, corporate functions, TV commercials, children’s holiday shows and for six years she worked as an assistant director, choreographer & performer for Oz Force Production Company (Children’s Entertainment – Vic).
Rachel also lived and worked in London in 1995, where she assisted Arlene Phillips with the pre-production of “Billy” and studied dance at Pineapple Studios. She is also an experience as a dance eisteddfod adjudicator, both here in South Australia and in Victoria, and has recently qualified as a full COMDANCE Examiner (3rd in SA).