Exploring movement and dance as a modality for healing in all layers and depths of our being. Rachel finds dance beyond physical movement, an opportunity to offer a full-encompassing experience. Her work explores how far one can expand the human experience of the soul. She encourages a deep dive into uncharted territories. She explores the possibility of richness and expansivity of human and soul experience through live performance/creation, dance film, and her own meditative movement method, RLH Method.

Rachel Heinkel is a New York City-based artist with experience in performing, choreographing, and directing. She grew up in Dayton, Ohio. Rachel graduated from Marymount Manhattan College with her B.F.A. in Dance and a minor in Fashion Studies. Since graduating, she has continued her dance career through freelance work and choreography/creation of her own. Rachel has danced for and performed works by Anton Lachky, Adam Barruch, Olga Rabestskaya, Marla Phelan, Hussien Smko, Ragin Smith, Tabula Rasa Dance Theater, and more. Rachel has performed at The Joyce Theater, Lincoln Center, The McKittrick Hotel, New York Live Arts, Alvin Ailey Citigroup Theater, Triskelion, Arts On Site, SXSW Festival, and more. Rachel choreographed and was the dancer for Melanie Martinez’s EVIL Music Video Visualizer. She has been featured as a dancer in an upcoming Neiman Marcus Campaign. She choreographed, movement directed, and performed background dancing for the musician Sandflower. Rachel collaboratively choreographed the dance theater work, Now That We’re Spinning, shown at multiple venues and dance festivals in New York City. She has worked as co-creative director and performer on video projects with Anthony Magliano. Rachel directed and performed in her short dance film 3. This film has been selected to be screened at the Dance on Camera Festival at Lincoln Center in February 2024. Rachel has been commissioned by Jamacia Arts Center to extend and share her solo work, As She Folds at the Making Moves Dance Festival in September 2024.

Rachel has experience in stage management, creative direction, and movement direction roles.

Rachel is a 200-hour Registered Yoga Teacher and offers her self-created meditative movement method, Release Listen Heal.