rachelneville, Author at Rachel Neville Photography

Loving Your Job- Even When It's Just A Day Job

August 17, 2011

I was shooting with the beautiful Kelly Sheerins a couple of weeks ago. Kelly, a Rockette, is building her portfolio and looking to branch out into other projects this year.

Like so many other dancers in this city, she earns secondary income in the fitness world. Pilates/gyrotonics/personal training is often perfect for supplementing income and offering a flexible schedule. Kelly mentioned to me that she books her clients first thing in the morning and later in the day to leave her schedule open for taking class and being available to audition on a moment’s notice… To me, anyone that gets up before 5am by choice is crazy, but really don’t we all get a little crazy in pursuing what we love?

Exclusive Dress Rehearsal: Latin Choreographers Festival

August 3, 2011

I’ve had the pleasure of shooting for the Latin Choreographer’s Festival since it began. Today at the dress rehearsal I was so struck by just how far this little- now not so little- Festival has come! The quality of the Choreographers this year is impressive, hailing from Chile, Mexico Venezuela, Brazil and Germany in addition … Read more

Breaking Mirrors

July 13, 2011

One of my current fav shots from a shoot that I did with Andrew Silks a couple of months ago.. and since then I’ve had a few people ask me how I came up with it, so I thought I’d write a little the behind the scenes post here. Andy was such a great dancer to collaborate with, I originally shot for him for his audition pics this year (he just graduated from Ellison Ballet School and is off to Tulsa Ballet in the fall); we had just gotten into doing some fun stuff with his ‘crazy’ tights, when we ran out of time. So I asked him back to do some more experimenting with me and this was one of the results!

Shooting on a 10×25 foot piece of blackout material (I prefer the material over a seamless paper as it doesn’t reflect any light and gives a deep black) we used the 4×8 foot mirrored plexiglass in the studio I had purchased for a jewelery shoot that I’d been wanting to play with.

Sizzling Summer Days with Rachel Neville Photography

June 30, 2011

Every year it seems like much of the dance community leaves NYC intermittently. I find the bulk of what I shoot during these months is for the commercial or fitness industries and I miss my dancer pals! So for those of you dancers who are around this summer, I present… “Sizzling Summer Days”! Twice a … Read more

Splash Dance

June 15, 2011

We had a great shoot a couple of weeks ago with Dance Iquail, a company based in both Philly and here NYC.

Along with doing headshots, background foundation imagery and some shots on the rooftop, we had loads of fun experimenting with water.

PiggyBack Shoot #1: A Success!

June 7, 2011

Rachel Neville Photography PiggyBack Shoot with Michael Laskaris

I’m excited to share images from our first PiggyBack Shoot, last week, with contemporary dancer, Michael Laskaris.

Michael just graduated from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts and needed a headshot- that he could afford- before heading off for a tour.

The PiggyBack Shoot with Rachel Neville Photography was a perfect opportunity for him to save him some money and get him what he needed quickly!

Shooting Altered Fidelity for C Eule Dance Co.

May 17, 2011

I had the opportunity to work with Caron and her dancers a few weeks back. They are celebrating their tenth season with several small shows over May and their season at the Capezio Theater @ Peridance in June.

Caron decided to highlight one of her new pieces, “Altered Fidelity,” in our shoot. The costumes, by Arturo Vera, were great to work with. Everyone loves dance pictures with swaths of material that emphasize movement and we were lucky that these costumes did just that .

Xocolatti Coming to Soho!

May 4, 2011

Xocolatti Dusted Chocolates shot by Rachel Neville Photography

I’m so excited to share this post with you! Though my intention for this blog is to showcase my dancer and dance company clients, I can’t resist every once in a while sneaking in a feature on one of my commercial clients and this one is just, well, yummmmmmy!

Bringing the World to the Latin Choreographers Festival

April 28, 2011

Ursula Verduzco, dancer/choreographer and founder of the Latin Choreographers Festival and I were having a chat the other day about the upcoming annual festival; this is its fourth year.

Personal Marketing for Dancers: How to Eat on Hiatus

July 7, 2018April 19, 2011

I was having a great chat a few days ago with Da’Von Doane, (dancer with Dance Theatre of Harlem) on Facebook. We were talking about, well, of course our selves, but touching on the broader context of dancers and artists having trouble marketing themselves.

DAvon Doane Rachel Neville Photography — Da’Von

With so many dancers in this country put on hiatis and potentially unemployment over the summer months, pick-up jobs are an important way to keep going. But of course to get those jobs you have to let directors, choreographers, etc. know that you are available and, well, available!

Marketing is key to anyone working in the business and commercial world, so much so that companies have whole departments devoted to it. So why do we as artists let that fall so low on our priority lists? I know that I’m just as guilty: I forget about marketing until I find myself in a slow spell.