Rachel Stanislawczyk, ED.M is a Summa Cum Laude graduate of Rutgers University, where she earned her masters degree in Dance Education with a K-12 teaching certification in 2020. During her time at Rutgers, she taught as a Part-Time-Lecturer of Ballet in the Dance Department at Mason Gross School of the Arts. Currently, Rachel is a full-time Dance Educator at David Brearley Middle High School, where she developed the high school dance curriculum for Kenilworth Public Schools. Rachel danced professionally with Rock Dance Collective, and is a teaching artist at Washington Rock Dance.
She is also the Director and Founder of the Dance for Parkinson’s Program at American Repertory Ballet: a program for people diagnosed with PD and their caregivers. She has expanded the program to three locations, performed at Princeton University’s Healing for Music Concert Series, and presents at PD events throughout the state of New Jersey. In 2017, Rachel advanced from an intern to a lead teacher of the Mark Morris Dance Group (MMDG) Dance for PD® program, where she taught classes at MMDG, New York University, Juilliard and Ballet Academy East.
Rachel graduated with a BFA in Dance and Choreography from Virginia Commonwealth University. In the spring semester of her junior year, she was a student in the University of South Florida’s Dance in Paris Program, where she studied and performed with various celebrated dance artists in Europe. Rachel is a proud alumni of the Middlesex County Magnet School where she developed her foundational dance training under Cleo Mack.