Rachel Dean is a contemporary dance artist based in Leeds who performs, teaches and choreographs. She has a particular interest in Contact Improvisation and collaboration with other artists and art forms and is part of improvisation collective Mathilde.

Her choreography has included Nativity, a solo contemporary Christmas show, Entwined, a dance theatre piece performed by a dressmaker and a dancer and Love in Idleness, a walkabout dance theatre piece made and performed in a garden on Midsummer Night. She is passionate about sharing her love of dance and teaches Contact Improvisation regularly.