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Exclusive Dress Rehearsal: Latin Choreographers Festival

By rachelneville / August 3, 2011

I’ve had the pleasure of shooting for the Latin Choreographer’s Festival since it began.  Today at the dress rehearsal I was so struck by just how far this little- now not so little- Festival has come! The quality of the Choreographers this year is impressive, hailing from Chile, Mexico Venezuela, Brazil and Germany in addition … Read more

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Breaking Mirrors

By rachelneville / July 13, 2011

One of my current fav shots from a shoot that I did with Andrew Silks a couple of months ago.. and since then I’ve had  a few people ask me how I came up with it, so I thought I’d write a little the behind the scenes post here.  Andy was such a great dancer … Read more

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Sizzling Summer Days with Rachel Neville Photography

By rachelneville / June 30, 2011

Every year it seems like much of the dance community leaves NYC intermittently.  I find the bulk of what I shoot during these months is for the commercial or fitness industries and I miss my dancer pals! So for those of you dancers who are around this summer, I present… “Sizzling Summer Days”! Twice a … Read more

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Splash Dance

By rachelneville / June 15, 2011

We had a great shoot a couple of  weeks ago with Dance Iquail, a company based in both Philly and here NYC. Along with doing headshots, background foundation imagery and some shots on the rooftop, we had loads of fun experimenting with water.

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Rachel Neville Photography PiggyBack Shoot with Michael Laskaris

PiggyBack Shoot #1: A Success!

By rachelneville / June 7, 2011

I’m excited to share images from our first PiggyBack Shoot, last week, with contemporary dancer, Michael Laskaris. Michael just graduated from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts and needed a headshot- that he could afford- before heading off for a tour. The PiggyBack Shoot with Rachel Neville Photography was a perfect opportunity for him to … Read more

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Shooting Altered Fidelity for C Eule Dance Co.

By rachelneville / May 17, 2011

I had the opportunity to work with Caron and her dancers a few weeks back.  They are celebrating their tenth season with several small shows over May and their season at the Capezio Theater @ Peridance in June. Caron decided to highlight one of her new pieces, “Altered Fidelity,”  in our shoot.  The costumes, by … Read more

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Xocolatti Dusted Chocolates shot by Rachel Neville Photography

Xocolatti Coming to Soho!

By rachelneville / May 4, 2011

I’m so excited to share this post with you!  Though my intention for this blog is to showcase my dancer and dance company clients, I can’t resist every once in a while sneaking in a feature on one of my commercial clients and this one is just, well, yummmmmmy!

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Bringing the World to the Latin Choreographers Festival

By rachelneville / April 28, 2011

Ursula Verduzco, dancer/choreographer and founder of the Latin Choreographers Festival and I were having a chat the other day about the upcoming  annual  festival; this is its fourth year.

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Personal Marketing for Dancers: How to Eat on Hiatus

By rachelneville / April 19, 2011

I was having a great chat a few days ago with Da’Von Doane, (dancer with Dance Theatre of Harlem) on Facebook.  We were talking about, well, of course our selves, but touching on the broader context of dancers and artists having trouble marketing themselves. With so many dancers in this country put on hiatis and … Read more

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Inspiration & Ajkun Ballet Theatre

By rachelneville / April 12, 2011

I love shooting for Ajkun Ballet Theatre: the directors Chiara and Leonard Ajkun give me as much information about their productions as they can, and then I have almost free reign to come up with ideas and concepts that fit their marketing and budget needs.

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