Rachel Laird

Rachel is a freelance dance artist from Scotland and trained at Copenhagen Contemporary Dance School for her Postgraduate, Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance for her BA (HONS) degree and prior to this at The Scottish School of Contemporary Dance and National Youth Dance Company of Scotland.

Since being freelance Rachel has performed for Highly Sprung, English National Opera, Garsington Opera, Peut-Etre Theatre, Next Door Dance, Tess Letham, The Natashas Project and Page One theatre among others. Commercially she has been in music videos for Dua Lipa, Hilang Child, Private Agenda and collaborated with Visual Artists Latifah A Stranack and Amber Kim. In 2019 she co-founded Dance theatre company Sliding Doors Collective and have shown their work at Edinburgh Fringe, Citymoves, Dumfries & Galloway, Resolution Festival and received ACE funding to R&D a film which was completed and premiered in 2023. In July Rachel movement directed the play ‘After Sex’ directed by Izzy Parriss and written by Siofra Dromgoole at the Arcola Theatre.

As a teacher Rachel has taught throughout Scotland, England, Copenhagen and China as a teacher independently as well as representing performance companies as a contemporary dance teacher and yoga/fitness instructor.