Rachel has over twenty years of experience teaching. She has been invited to teach at institutions around the world including Ecole De Sables, Senegal, MUDA Africa, Tanzania, PUPA University, Peru, Roehampton Institute, London, Vertigo Dance Company Training Program, Israel,  American University Washington DC, Hangxou University for Music and Dance, China ,Da Vinci Middle School, Portland, Oregon and Brown University, Rhode Island, USA. 

 

Rachel teaches choreographic courses, repertoire and creation workshops. She has created choreographies for youth groups and dance schools as well as professional training programs. In the last few years, Rachel has put an emphasis on community outreach, working with non-dancers and mixed age groups. 

 

Rachel’s workshops encourage participants to find their own creative voice and movement material. Her workshops provide a safe and playful environment in which anyone can dance. Combining movement and text, choreographic tools, improvisation and contact work, the workshops give participants insight into how Rachel works with her dancers. Participants are encouraged to challenge themselves physically, creatively and emotionally. The workshops are modular and can be offered as single meetings or ongoing series.

 

Here are some examples of workshops and masterclasses that have been specifically tailored for institutions and companies from around the globe:

​

Performing the Personal

Rachel’s choreographic works are based on the individuals she works with whose movement language, personal stories and memories play an important role in the creations. In this workshops, Rachel focuses on encouraging dancers to develop their choreographic voices. Through tasks, improvisation and discussions, she pushes them out of their comfort zone physically and emotionally. The sessions combine movement and text. 

 

Questions, questions, questions

This workshop is based on the creation Q&A. This work is based on Arthur Aron’s ‘36 Questions That Lead to Love’. It premiered in 2017 and has been in her company’s repertoire since. During the sessions, Rachel gives the dancers a glimpse into the choreographic process involved in creating this work, inviting them to experience the questions and workshop how they would answer them. Rachel teaches the participants repertory sections from the original version of the work. Thanks to her extensive experience with this questionnaire, Rachel is able to tailor the workshop to suit a wide array of age groups, from preteens to adults. This workshop is modular and can be offered as a single meeting (Bikurei Haitim Dance School, Tel Aviv, Israel) or a week-long intensive (Kinitiras dance space, Athens Greece)

 

Castle in the Sky

This workshop is based on the Castle, a dance performance that relates to the concept of home. The workshop participants create movement material and then play around with it in a small space, learning how to adapt and improvise. The workshop is focused on enhancing performance qualities, improvisation skills in movement and in text and exploring the relationship between performers and audience. The dancers are asked to delve into personal content, describing the homes they grew up in and their dream house. They explore the concept of physical and emotional  borders and boundaries. This workshop is funny, physical and emotive.

 

From creation to performance

Rachel enjoys engaging in creative processes with all types of dancers,the results of which can be performed publicly. 

The works are a combination of movement material that the dancers bring through choreographic tasks that Rachel develops and curates as well as taught choreographic material. The rehearsals can result in short sequences or in creations ranging in length  depending on the creation period and the level of the students.

Rachel has led this type of engagement at Devinci School for the arts, Portland, USA, Hadera High School, Israel, Halleli Arts school for religious students, Israel, Or Lemahol Dance Studio, Yavneh, Israel, Vertigo Training program, Israel, RE-SEARCH creation program, Israel, Ha Kvutza training program, Israel, Beersheba University, Israel, American University, Washington DC, Roehampton Institute, London, PUPA University, Peru, Springboard, Montreal, Canada and more...

​

In 2025, Rachel has been invited to create a 30-minute version of Q&A at Zurich University of the Arts.

 

Professional training workshops for dance teachers

For over a decade, Rachel has taught on the Ministry of Education’s professional development choreographic course for teachers. Since 2020, Rachel has overseen the course and its content, addressing a different focus such as dramaturgy, improvisation and multi-disciplinary work each year. She is the main educator and curator of the program and is tasked with selecting guest artists and lecturers, Such as Yasmeen Godder, Idit Herman, Renana Raz, Hillel Kogen, Niv Shinfield and Oren Laor.

Professional training workshops for choreographers

In 2024, Rachel was invited to create a professional development course for choreographers. The course was initiated and facilitated by Panta Rei Danseteater and held at Muda Africa, Tanzania. Each choreographer came with a piece they were in the process of creating and wished to continue developing throughout the course. As part of this week-long intensive, Rachel mentored the choreographer’s works, watched them, gave feedback sessions, workshopped parts of their choreographies and taught workshops for the choreographers and their dancers. These sessions addressed not only the creations but the way the artists wrote and spoke about their work. 

​​