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Rachel High

A returning member of Restless Dance since 1995, I performed in eight major Restless productions, including a tour to Darwin with Sex Juggling and to Sydney with Precious for the 2000 Paralympics Arts Festival.

In 2002 I became a member of No Strings Attached and have over the past seven years performed in five major productions with them, the most recent being two duets: Turkish Delight with Netta Yashchin (2007), and Steak n' Chelsea with Julie McNamara as a work-in-progress for Feast (2008). Julie and I will do a full production of Steak n' Chelsea for the 2010 Feast Festival.

I've trained and performed with Wolfgang Stange, Artistic Director of AMICI Theatre Dance Company in London (2002), wrote and directed the short film Brown the Dirt with the support of Flinders University Screen Studies lecturer Cole Larsen (2008), and took the lead role in Work Ready, a short film produced by graduating Students from Film and Television Students at Adelaide Centre for the Performing Arts (2008). (I got a Best Actress nomination for that role.)

On 19 August 2009, I presented a paper to the International Down Syndrome Congress in Dublin, and in September 2009 my collaborator Julie McNamara and I presented a showing of Steak n' Chelsea in London.