Rachael Gunn

Dr Rachael Gunn is a lecturer in media and creative industries at Macquarie University (Sydney). Her work focuses on the cultural politics of breaking and street dance cultures. She is particularly interested in broader questions about the body, identity, community, and belonging, and how dance can act as a catalyst for transformation.

Her research approach is interdisciplinary, drawing on her own breaking practice, as well as ethnography, cultural theory, and the disciplines of dance studies, popular music studies, hip hop studies, and media studies.

She is an elite breaker representing under the name ‘Raygun’. She recently won the Oceania Breaking Olympic Qualifiers and will be representing Australia at the Paris 2024 Summer Olympic Games for breaking’s Olympic debut.