Ph.D., Texas Women's University. Rae was a professional dancer with the Neville Black Dance Company in Chicago, IL and appeared with the Gus Giordano Company in Evanston, IL. Her choreography has been seen throughout the United States. Her work, Requiem in a Closed Room, has been commissioned for recreation by several Universities. At UNLV, she founded, directed and choreographed for three companies: Solaris--a company of Dancers; Contemporary Dance Theatre; and Cosmic Waterfall and remained Director and later Chair of the Department of Dance Arts for fourteen years. As a prolific choreographer in Las Vegas since 1976, Rae produced works for both the Las Vegas concert and commercial venues including the Mirage and Caesar's Palace Hotels. Her dances have been presented in Scotland, Italy, Spain and China as well as throughout the United States. As a choreographer and costume designer, she continues to collaborate on many multimedia art projects at the university, and within the Las Vegas Community, as well as nationally and internationally. Rae is the Choreographer-in-Residence for the Las Vegas Music & Dance Ensemble which made its Carnegie Recital Hall Debut in 1988. In 2002, she choreographed and performed the poem Eyes, and in 2001, the jazz poem, Saints & Sinners, for the Ninth and Eighth Annual Dancing Poetry Festivals respectively in San Francisco. She also performed with Natica Angilly's Poetic Dance Theatre in Assisi, Italy in 2001. From 1997 to 2006, she has been studying and developing modern choreography based on the Argentine Tango, Flamenco and the Salsa. Her many teachers include: Maria Benitez, Martín Santangelo, Margo Torea, Jack Cole, Luigi, Bella Lewitsky, Twyla Tharp, Merce Cunningham, Jose Limon, Harriet Ann Grey, Charles Weidman, Paul Taylor, Pauline Koner, Marjorie Tallchief, and George Skibine and La Tati and Josele in Madrid, Spain. Currently, she is a regional director for the International Jazz Dance World Congress and still is active as a soloist. Rae has directed dance programs at University of Colorado, Greeley and the University of Houston. She founded the dance program at UNLV where she currently acts as historian and researcher.