Rebecca Walden is a New York City–based dancer, choreographer, and movement specialist.

She began her professional career with Nevada Ballet Theatre and Columbia Classical Ballet, and has since performed with companies including Armitage Gone! Dance, Terra Firma Dance Theatre, Connecticut Ballet, Encounters Dance, and Nishikawa and Artists, among others. She has also performed in works by Constantine Baecher, Hee Ra Yoo, and Richard Arnold Isaac.

Her early training was in classical ballet at Pavlovich Dance School and Southeastern School of Ballet, followed by study at the North Carolina School of the Arts. She later trained in contemporary dance through Alonzo King’s LINES Ballet Professional Training Program, and continues to work with Nadege Hottier.

Her choreographic work has been presented by New Chamber Ballet, konverjdans, and Premiere Division Ballet in New York, Italy, and Germany, including One of My Former Faces, which received the Best Pas de Deux award at the Royal Dance Grand Prix in Rieti, Italy.

Alongside her performance and choreographic work, she works privately with individuals through the Gyrotonic and Gyrokinesis Expansion System. This practice emerges from an ongoing interest in how the body adapts through repetition, injury, and habit, and how those patterns can be reorganized over time.

Whether in performance or teaching private sessions, the work centers on developing strength, mobility, and coordination while reducing unnecessary strain, with an emphasis on long-term change. At its core, it is an ongoing inquiry into how the body registers and reorganizes experience over time.

She holds a BA in Anthropology from Columbia University, where she graduated summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, and received the Dean’s Award in Anthropology.