BIOGRAPHY
Rachael Redfern is an internationally acclaimed fusion bellydancer based in London, UK. For the past five years she has worked professionally full time as a teacher, performer, producer and director and has taught in over ten countries. She is the producer of London Fusion Fest and the director of fusion dance troupe Verbeia.
She is well-known for her distinctive dance stylisation infused with glamorous dark vintage aesthetics as well as for her inventive choreographic work, strong musicality and smooth, precise technique.
Passionate about bellydance since her early teens, she first studied Egyptian raqs sharqi and baladi before falling in love at first sight with Fusion Bellydance when Rachel Brice and the Indigo performed in her hometown in 2005. Since then, she has devoted herself to intensive training in this style including as scholarship winner for both Zoe Jakes' Dancecraft (Key of Diamonds) and Rachel Brice's 8 Elements (Initiation) programmes.
Rachael has performed solo or with her troupe Verbeia across many nightclubs, restaurants and theatre venues in London such as Sketch, Egg, The Steel Yard, House of KOKO and Sadler's Wells as well as further afield at multiple music, dance and arts festivals in the UK and beyond.
Outside of dance she enjoys collecting records and vintage clothing and occasionally DJs at London clubs such as Torture Garden and Slimelight. She also used to play bass for the post-punk and darkwave band the Agnes Circle.
- Photography by Sabua Gartig
She is well-known for her distinctive dance stylisation infused with glamorous dark vintage aesthetics as well as for her inventive choreographic work, strong musicality and smooth, precise technique.
Passionate about bellydance since her early teens, she first studied Egyptian raqs sharqi and baladi before falling in love at first sight with Fusion Bellydance when Rachel Brice and the Indigo performed in her hometown in 2005. Since then, she has devoted herself to intensive training in this style including as scholarship winner for both Zoe Jakes' Dancecraft (Key of Diamonds) and Rachel Brice's 8 Elements (Initiation) programmes.
Rachael has performed solo or with her troupe Verbeia across many nightclubs, restaurants and theatre venues in London such as Sketch, Egg, The Steel Yard, House of KOKO and Sadler's Wells as well as further afield at multiple music, dance and arts festivals in the UK and beyond.
Outside of dance she enjoys collecting records and vintage clothing and occasionally DJs at London clubs such as Torture Garden and Slimelight. She also used to play bass for the post-punk and darkwave band the Agnes Circle.
- Photography by Sabua Gartig