Rachel Thorne Germond
Dance Performance Visual Art in Brooklyn, New York
Rachel Thorne Germond’s multi-disciplinary performances incorporate dance, video, and photography. Her dances employ a deft range of choreographic strategies to create ambiguous juxtapositions and new, unfamiliar languages. A graduate of Cornell University's College of Architecture, Art and Planning where she studied print-making and photography, Rachel has been teaching, performing, and choreographing for over twenty years. Her dance training includes intensive study of Klein technique with Barbara Mahler and with such notable teachers as Mary Anthony, Anna Sokolow, Merce Cunningham, Pedro Alejandro, Tere O'Connor, and Nancy Topf. In 2000 she achieved an MFA in choreography from the University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana. She currently lives in Brooklyn, NY. for more info see www.rtgdance.com