Rachael Hale
Rachael has had a long and varied career, beginning with her strong classical training which lead to her performing featured roles with London Ballet Creations and the European Ballet. She made the move to musical theatre in the role of Amaryllis in UK tour of The Music Man. This lead to many pantomime and summer season performances throughout the UK.
At 16 Rachael studied musical theatre at the North London Dance studio. Since graduating Rachael has performed all over the world on cruise ships as well as musical performances in London, Australia and America, where she had the pleasure of working with choreographers such a William Forsythe, Broadway’s Dewayne Barrett and Las Vegas’ Tony Perry. One of Rachael’s treasured credits during this period was as a guest vocalist in a special The Kingdom of Swing(2009) which saw her work with musicians who had accompanied the likes of Ella Fitzgerald and Frank Sinatra.
Between contracts Rachael lived in London at various times, where her most cherished credit was the role of Cassie in A Chorus Line (2012). She also joined the acclaimed The Gatsby Girls, bringing the Charleston to new heights (2013 – 16), choreographed and performed in several short films for Naomi Fitzsimmons (2014, 2016) as well as working as dancer, fire performer and illusionist in Spectacular Adventure and Illusion on the High Seas for LE Entertainment (2015).
Rachael has also had the pleasure of choreographing various pieces for both theatre and film such as the music video Style and Grace for The Explorers Collective (2015), the pantomime Rainbow’s End (2015) and the tap special The Language of Gesture (2014).
Always maintaining her strong classical training Rachael was a member of Co. Motion Dance Company (2013-2016) and had the pleasure of performing with them in a featured role in Coppellia and in an original dance adaptation of Lord of the Flies. In 2015 she was a soloist in a new work by The English National Ballet’s Trevor Wood entitled Balletic Bagatelles.
Rachael moved to Australia at the end of 2016 and has since appeared as Mona in Chicago and Sheila in A Chorus Line. Rachael also performs regularly with the Joe Cocker Experience and The Commitments tribute acts.