choreographer
educator
artist
...Rainey makes us look inside his work and ourselves too.
- Merilyn Jackson The Philadelphia Inquirer
...If not life as you know it, art as you love it: serious but unpretentious, even fun.
- Merilyn Jackson The Philadelphia Inquirer
The dynasty jumps to a new generation in Meredith Rainey's wonderful new Slight Shifts.
- Elizabeth Zimmer The Philadelphia Inquirer
Here Rainey succeeds in weaving the drama right into the structure of the dance...
- Eileen Fisher Philadelphia Weekly
NEW COMMISSIONS
19/20 Season
STOCKTON UNIVERSITY
Premiere
March 5 -7, 2020
Spring Dance Concert
Stockton Performing Arts Center
20/21 season
PENNSYLVANIA BALLET
Premiere
January 29 - February 7, 2021
Perelman Theater
Philadelphia, PA
TEACHING SCHEDULE
19/20
FALL 2019
University of the Arts
Drexel University
Brandywine Ballet
WINTER 2020
University of the Arts
Drexel University
Swarthmore College
SPRING 2020
University of the Arts
Drexel University
Swarthmore College
SUMMER 2020
Earl Mosley Institute of the Arts (EMIA)
WHAT'S IN MY CAMERA
A LONE ONE
Lately, I have been drawn to the singular thing in my surroundings. Maybe because I have been the lone one in the room, I feel some sort of solidarity with standing in a and holding a space. These three photos are part of a larger series that I am engaged in right now.
1. I swell 2. I float 3. I roll