Rae Piper

 
Rae Piper has enjoyed a performance career spanning many genres of theatre, from musicals in London’s West End, international acrobat and contortionist, to principal dancer in a contemporary ballet company. As well as still being an active performer, she now works as a co-choreographer with Paul Chantry, and together their adaptive and inventive style has become greatly in demand across the UK.

Born in: 

Bristol, UK

Based out of: 

London/Grantham, UK

Selected Choreographic Credits: The Merry Widow (Royal Festival Hall, London); Tom’s Midnight Garden (The Bloomsbury, London); Horrible Histories (UK National Tour); The Last Days of Mankind (Bristol Old Vic Theatre Royal, Bristol); The Magic Flute (Riverside Studios, London); La Traviata (UK National Tour); Ring Around The World (The Rose Theatre & The Unicorn Theatre, London); The Trojan Women (Olympus Theatre, Bristol); The Nativity (UK South-West Tour)

Selected Performance Credits: Chinese Calligraphy, Music and Dance Concert (Sadler’s Wells, London); INXILE (Sadler’s Wells Lillian Baylis Studio, London); Love Never Dies (Adelphi Theatre, West End, London); Anyone For Tea? (Lyric Hammersmith, London); The Yellow Wallpaper (Village Underground, London); Lullaby For a Lost Soul (Village Underground, London); Songs of the Elder Sisters (Village Underground, London); Renard (Tramway, Glasgow); Shadowplays (Riverside Theatre, London); Snow White (The Harlequin Theatre, Redhill)
 
Awards/Honours: La Traviata (co-choreographer) nominated for Best Opera, The Off West End Awards 2012
 
Other Interesting Tidbits: Rae Piper is an ex-aerial and contortion artist who has performed her act internationally as well as in the West End and well-known London Cabaret venues including Café de Paris. She also holds a Sport and Exercise Science degree (1st Class Hons) from The University of Birmingham.