Rachel Bernsen is an independent dance artist, educator, and certified teacher of the Alexander Technique. Her work has been presented throughout NYC including Dance Theater Workshop where she was a 2005/06 Fresh Tracks artist-in-residence, Danspace Project, The Chocolate Factory, Movement Research Festival, Dixon Place, Roulette, Issue Project Room, and abroad in Belgium and Germany. In 2007 she was an NEA Honorary Fellow at the Djerassi Resident Artists Program.

She has taught at Yale University, Wesleyan University (Fall 2010), Moscow Dance Agency Tsekh Summer Dance Festival (Moscow, Russia), is on faculty at Movement Research, and has given master classes at Connecticut College and the University of Bridgeport. Bernsen also has a private practice in the Alexander Technique. She is the founder of the performance space, The BIG ROOM in New Haven, CT and the curator of the interdisciplinary performance series, Take Your Time. She serves on the board of The American Society for the Alexander Technique (AmSAT) and has been a contributor to and managing editor of the Movement Research Performance Journal (MRPJ). She holds an MFA in Dance from NYU, Tisch School of the Arts. www.rachelbernsen.com