Work-in-progress showing GRATTAN ST STUDIO, BUSHWICK, BROOKLYN; FULL DETAILS WITH RSVP
Saturday, April 26th 2025 - 7:30pm price : Free
April 26 brings our bi-monthly showing with colleague Stephanie Sleeper/Sleepdance. We'll both show work-in-progress; Racoco continues developing Assemblage 2 with dancers Toby Billowitz, Masumi Kishimoto, and Meghan Schardt-Gensberg, and now Fina, returned from Germany, with music composed and arranged by Chris Becker.
Rachel also invites attendees to help her develop her project "Object Impermanence," looking at our connections with inanimate objects.
Wednesday, May 14th 2025 - 5:00pm price : $65; scholarships available Register here »Come meet more of yourself in this introduction to Action Theater improvisation with Rachel Cohen, director of Racoco Productions. Through simple, fun exercises playing with movement, sound, and language, participants explore living in their bodies as well as their minds, mining and reveling in the multidimensional nature of being a human.
Friday, May 16th 2025 - 10:00am price : $25 Register here »Racoco Productions company member Masumi Kishimoto leads a workshop in moving consciously and joyfully through everyday actions as a result of understanding and respecting the postures your body inherently knows.
Assemblage 1(b) THE JUNG CENTER 5200 Montrose Boulevard, Houston, TX 77006 map »
Friday, May 16th 2025 - 7:30pm Saturday, May 17th 2025 - 2:00pm price : $15 members/$20 non-members Purchase tickets here »In May, Racoco is bringing "Assemblage" to Houston's Jung Center.
The Houston performances will feature Racoco members Rachel Cohen and Masumi Kishimoto and Houston-based dancers Tobaric Atkins-Montana and Persi Mey, and Houston musicians Luke Hubley (vibraphone), Naomi Hoffmeyer (harp), Molly Wise (viola), and Patrick Moore (cello) playing music composed and arranged by Chris Becker.
shapeD & sh.IF.ted Performance Festival ANNA LEONOWENS GALLERY Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Rachel's been invited to perform in the shapeD & sh.IF.ted Performance Festival in Halifax, Canada, with colleagues performance artists Sarah Bild and Nadine Sures, May 27-29.
Resistance training for changing times: Notice, experience, respond - 02/11/2025 Tuesdays at 6:30pm ET on Zoom.
Explore the basic principles of Action Theater* improvisation. Through simple, fun exercises playing with movement, sound, and language, participants explore living in their bodies as well as their minds, mining and reveling in the multidimensional nature of being a human. Come explore radical existence in the present moment, audacious sensitivity to the self and others, and the ripe accessibility of limitless imagination! It is amazing training for performers; it is also amazing training for life.
Whether you're a neophyte or an experienced improvisor, come and play!
