Cellar Door Collective

11/20/2014

CDDC's first performance in the UK! Thank you to everyone who came out and supported us! What an amazing show :) xx

11/12/2014

Tomorrow is our first performance in London! We can't wait to share both our gallery installation and live performance with you all. See you tomorrow! xx
www.rawartists.org/cellardoordance

Cellar Door Dance (CDD) was founded by Rachel Benzing in 2013. Originally based in Los Angeles, now in London, CDD is a dance company that focuses on creating work that strives to enliven and inspire both its dancers and its audience members by aiming to introduce more art into the world through awa…

11/03/2014

Less than two weeks until our first London performance! Please help support CDDC's artistry by donating to help fund our participation fees, if you can! xx
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/raw-artist-performance-cellar-door-dance-company/x/8924353

Help Cellar Door Dance Company fund their first professional performance in London with RAW Artists!

10/16/2014

It's been 6 months from our performance of "A Subjective Actuality"! How the time flies! If you missed out, here is an excerpt from the show...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbXQ7s0xd50

Woman Is Losers, an excerpt from "A Subjective Actuality" April 12th, 2014, Strub Theatre, Loyola Marymount University Performed by Cellar Door Dance Company...

10/07/2014

When dance companies collide any thing can happen! Cellar Door Dance is so happy to be presenting alongside of JT Dance Company at the RAW Artists Event in November. There is going to be some amazing work shown that you don't want to miss!

10/07/2014

Photoshoot for the promotion of "A Subjective Actuality"
Photography: Brian Esperon

10/07/2014

Rachel Benzing, a native of Chicago, began her dance training at Copeland Dance Academy with the Checchetti School of Ballet, jazz, tap, hip hop, and modern. She established herself as a teacher and choreographer at Copeland Dance Academy and Ambition Dance & Performing Arts where she had the responsibility of teaching and choreographing for the tap programs while also a member of Xtreme Dance Force, a hip-hop and jazz company. She has attended the St. Louis Tap Festival, the Los Angeles Tap Festival, and the Chicago Human Rhythm Project where she won the Summer World Tap Competition, the American Dance Festival Winter Intensive and Six Week Summer Program, Ledges and Bones Summer Workshop which she was awarded a full-ride scholarship, and numerous BODYTRAFFIC workshops and intensives. Currently she is a student at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, where she is pursuing two bachelor degrees, in Dance and History, under the instruction of Lillian Barbeito, Tekla Kostek, Paige Porter, Jason Myhre, Damon Rago, Holly Johnston, Mark Tomasic, Rosalynde LeBlanc Loo, John Todd, Robbie Cook, and Lisa Gillespie. She has performed in works choreographed by Barak Marshall, Jessica Harper, J.T. Horenstein, Kevin Williamson, Tony Czar, Paige Porter, Denise Leitner, Rosalynde LeBlanc Loo, Jessie Zarrit, and Lillian Berbeito and has also received the College of Communication and Fine Arts Council Scholarship. Apart from her performance and choreographic pursuits, Rachel has also been published in the Dance Program Student Journal, and has served as treasurer on both the History Honors Society, Phi Alpha Theta, and the Classics Honor Society, Eta Sigma Phi. Rachel intends on obtaining her masters degree in Dance and establishing her career as a choreographer with the creation of her own dance company.

04/04/2014

Cellar Door Dance Company presents: A Subjective Actuality, April 12th, 8:00pm, Strub Theatre at Loyola Marymount University. It will be a night to not be missed!

01/01/2014

Happy New Year to all of our followers from Cellar Door Dance!! We are so excited to embark on a new journey in 2014 and can not wait to get started on our evening length work being presented in April. In the meantime, here is a special treat to ring in the New Year! https://vimeo.com/83181253

"what is coming is better than what has passed" an abridged version of a work created for the "LMU Benefit for Hope" presented by Cellar Door Dance Company and Espérer…

10/30/2013

Cellar Door Dance Company and Esperer in Action combined forces in a Silent Protest Against Modern Slavery, as part of Espérer's Modern Slavery Awareness Week.

09/23/2013

09/13/2013

Join Cellar Door Dance Company this Sunday 5-6:30pm!
https://vimeo.com/74167067

Cellar Door Dance Company Company Class September 8th, 2013 NO COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT IS INTENDED USED FOR EDUCATIONAL AND ARTISTIC PURPOSES ONLY