Rachel Day is from Geneva, IL and started dancing at age 4. During her dance career she has studied various forms of dance but ballet has always been her favorite style. At 13 she began her formal ballet training. She spent most of her ballet training studying under Terry Fox, Elise Flagg, Judith Chitwood, and Richard Grund. Most of her ballet training is in the Balanchine style as she studied with SAB and NYCB alumna Elise Flagg.
Rachel graduated from Northern Illinois University (NIU) in 2022 with her Bachelors of Fine Arts in Dance Performance. While at NIU, she focused her training on ballet and various forms of modern dance, such as Horton, Graham, and Release technique. She performed lead roles such as Michaela in Carmen, Marie Taglioni in Pas de Quatre, and Princess in Carmina Burana. She has had many opportunities to perform outside of school productions and has performed in Bell, FL with the Pas De Cheval Dancers under the direction of Paula Frasz, St. Louis, MO at Big Muddy's DanceFest, and with DanceLoop Chicago on a film titled "Maybe We Don't Know Love."
She is currently dancing professionally as a performing apprentice with Chicago Repertory Ballet under the direction of Wade Schaaf.
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