BIOGRAPHY
Rachael Redfern is an international Fusion Bellydance performer, teacher, choreographer and director based in London, UK. She teaches and performs professionally full time with weekly classes both in London and online alongside international workshops and performances in locations including Germany, Italy, Belgium and the USA.
Recognised equally for her skills as both a performer and teacher, she is known for her distinctive fusion stylisation and technique with dark and vintage flair, as well as for her charismatic teaching style and inventive choreographic work with strong emphasis on musicality, precision and expression.
Having first begun dancing Egyptian raqs sharqi and baladi in her early teens, she fell in love at first sight with Fusion Bellydance when she saw Rachel Brice and the Indigo perform in her hometown in 2005. Since then, she has devoted herself to intensive training in this style, including as a scholarship recipient of both Zoe Jakes' Dancecraft (Key of Diamonds 2018) and Rachel Brice's 8 Elements (Initiation 2019). Foremost of her teachers and inspirations is Alexis Southall, having performed several times in her Juniper Collective since 2014.
She has performed solo or directed her Fusion Bellydance troupe project Verbeia across many nightclubs, restaurants and theatre venues across London such as at Sketch, Egg, The Steel Yard and Sadler's Wells as well as further afield at multiple music, dance or arts festivals in the UK and beyond.
Outside of dance, she enjoys record collecting and is a regular DJ at London clubs such as Torture Garden and Subversa.
- Photography by Sabua Gartig
Recognised equally for her skills as both a performer and teacher, she is known for her distinctive fusion stylisation and technique with dark and vintage flair, as well as for her charismatic teaching style and inventive choreographic work with strong emphasis on musicality, precision and expression.
Having first begun dancing Egyptian raqs sharqi and baladi in her early teens, she fell in love at first sight with Fusion Bellydance when she saw Rachel Brice and the Indigo perform in her hometown in 2005. Since then, she has devoted herself to intensive training in this style, including as a scholarship recipient of both Zoe Jakes' Dancecraft (Key of Diamonds 2018) and Rachel Brice's 8 Elements (Initiation 2019). Foremost of her teachers and inspirations is Alexis Southall, having performed several times in her Juniper Collective since 2014.
She has performed solo or directed her Fusion Bellydance troupe project Verbeia across many nightclubs, restaurants and theatre venues across London such as at Sketch, Egg, The Steel Yard and Sadler's Wells as well as further afield at multiple music, dance or arts festivals in the UK and beyond.
Outside of dance, she enjoys record collecting and is a regular DJ at London clubs such as Torture Garden and Subversa.
- Photography by Sabua Gartig