Rachel Drazek CV

Movement, Direction, Teaching, Facilitation, Research.

Education

PhD (current) Consent, touch and power: Exploring intimacy direction and inclusion in dance. CDaRe, Coventry University, Uk.MA with Distinction - Dance & Somatic Wellbeing ; Connections to the Living Body, UCLan, 2013.BA (HONS) First class - Acting. GSA Conservatoire 2007.

Theatre / Film

as director

Disciples, 2023, Traverse Theatre for Stellar Quines.Orbits, 2023, Film by Hugo Glendinning for BOP. Shown at The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh.

as associate director

Come To Bed With Me, 2020, BOP Theatre / Zoom.Purposeless Movements, 2019, BOP for Edinburgh International Festival.

as movement director / choreographer

Pals, 2022, Ellen Renton and Imaginate.My Left Right Foot, 2018/19, BOP / National Theatre Scotland.Augmented, 2020, National tour for Sophie Woolley, Dir. Rachel Bagshaw.The Naughty Fox, 2020, National tour for Toucan theatre, Dir. James Baldwin.If we’ve never been to the Moon?, 2020, National tour for Toucan theatre, Dir. Andrew Dawson.Act of Repair, 2019, SYT : National Ensemble, Dir. Brian Ferguson.Sunday in the Park with George, 2019, Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, Dir. Dougie Irvine.Gravity Fields Festival, 2018, Grantham / Rosa Productions, Dir. Jeremy James.Electra, 2018, Bunker Theatre, Dir. John Ward.Digging for Victory, 2018, London Watermill Theatre, Dir. Heidi BirdDido and Aeneas, 2017, Festival Voices, Dir. Gregory Batsleer.Greenham; 100 yrs of War & Peace, 2017, Grantham / Rosa Productions, Dir. Sophie Austin.Midsummer Night’s Dream, 2016, Southwark Playhouse, Dir. Simon Evans.Maria de Buenos Aires, 2016, The Vaults. Dir. Ella Marchmant.Purposeless Movements, 2016 Tramway, Dir. Robert Softley-Gale.Hurricane Boy, 2015, National tour, Dir. Ellen Havard.

Personal Profile

  • Highly skilled collaborative theatre-maker in professional, education and community contexts.

  • Extensive experience working with dance and movement including ensemble, historical, period and social partner dancing.

  • Artistic practice grounded in person centred practice.

  • Strongly governed personally and professionally by inclusive, feminist and anti-racist practices.

  • Very experienced in embedding creative access.

Teaching Experience

Leeds conservatoire : Performance Coach for Post-Graduate Creative Musicians 2016-2021.ALRA (North & South) Movement tutor for MA/BA Acting students. 2011, 2015-16.Royal Conservatoire of Scotland : Module teacher for MA/BA students - Body awareness for Performance. 2014-15.RADA evening adult classes ; movement for actors, 2014-16.National Opera Studio, London. Movement tutor 2016.Newman College, Preston. Dance teacher for VCE Performing Arts courses 2003-04.Newman College, Preston. Study support tutor for VCE Performing Arts students 2003-04.

Community projects & partners

British Council Rwanda & East Africa Arts, inclusive dance workshops.
Toucan theatre Community dance workshops and SEN consultation.
Richmond Bells project - Ele Slade. Schools workshops.
Create Arts movement projects with community, vulnerable and education groups.
Grantham Productions large-sale outdoor theatre productions with community groups.
EFDSS Inclusive folk dance sessions.
Wise Moves Dance Co Inclusive folk dance sessions.
Sage Dance Company, London.
Horniman museum Inclusive folk dance sessions.
DECAPO Schools workshops.
Beaumont College co-created somatic movement sessions for students with additional needs.
Moving for Wellbeing Somatic movement education group.
Trestle Theatre Co schools workshops.
Romany Theatre Company, schools and community workshops.
Cargogreen, schools workshops.

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