Events
Un poco Racoco: Racoco's Festival of Things
For the next two months, Racoco will be experimenting in a Festival of Things. We will perform our research results (and some choreography!) to live music May 2, 3, 9, and 10.
We hope you will join us in our research, as an audience member or as a participant. And Bring your Things! We will be hosting a series of Thing-Related Events at our new Laboratelier out in Bushwick, Brooklyn, including: the Antiques Racocoshow, more Inanimated Speed Dating, and Make-Your-Own Object Video (example below) along with open rehearsals and workshops.
Does that sound like a lot? It is! And we're looking forward to every minute.
-Chris, Fina, Lucia, Masumi, Meghan, Polina, Rachel, Sam, and Toby
For more information or to RSVP, send us an email - we'll tell you everything!
Schedule of events
price: $25-50 suggested donation (pay what you wish)
Between April 26 and May 10, the Racoco Labatelier will be open by appointment (drop-ins welcome but make sure we're open!). Then May 2, 3, 9, and 10 the company will perform two chapters of the Assemblage Project, which conjures memories of our families from objects they’ve left behind. My Mother's Eyes and My Grandfather's Nose will both feature live music arranged by Chris Becker, with Lucia Stavros on harp and Samuel Gray on viola and violin.
Come and try:
Inanimated Speed Dating - Get to know a Thing or two
Make-your-own Object Drama with objects from our collection - or bring something from home
The Relinquish Booth - bring an item you no longer need or want, say goodbye, and take home a commemorative video or photo.
The Antiques Racocoshow - Share a story about an object or we can make one up for you! We appraise sentimental value.
Swap Meet - Bring an object, take an object!
And see Racoco rehearsals, experiments, and improvisations
Sunday, April 26, 6:30pm: Opening reception
Monday-Friday, April 27-May 1: Laboratelier open by appointment
Saturday, May 2
10am-7pm: Laboratelier open
7pm: Open Dress Rehearsal: My Grandfather's Nose
Sunday, May 3
10am-7pm: Laboratelier open
11am-1pm: Relinquish workshop
4pm: Performance: My Grandfather's Nose
Monday-Friday, May 4-May 8: Laboratelier open by appointment
Saturday, May 9
10am-7pm: Laboratelier open
7pm Performance: My Mother's Eyes
Sunday, May 10
1pm: Performance: My Mother's Eyes
2:30pm: A Special Antiques Racocoshow, Mother's Day Edition
4pm: Performance: My grandfather's nose
5pm: Performance: My mother's eyes
6:30pm: Closing reception and raffle/auction
Feel free to bring objects that you
- would like to release/throw away/part with
- have broken or damaged and want to repurpose
- are attached to but need to let go
See you soon!
Action Theater at The Barefoot Boogie
Saturday, April 18th 2026from 7:00pm to 9:00pm
price: Suggested donation (pay at the door): $20 (Cash/Venmo/Credit Card)
Action Theater performance improvisation and the Barefoot Boogie - what a perfect match! Rachel Cohen will be leading a one hour class exploring modes of expression and improvisation that you may not have ever thought possible for yourself! No experience needed. Please arrive by 7pm sharp and wear comfortable clothes.
This will be followed by a glorious evening of conscious movement and fun with the Barefoot Boogie!
All are welcome to dance, connect, and groove in a safe, cool and inclusive environment as our DJs spin energizing beats that will get you moving and lift your spirits.
Shoes are optional at this casual and alcohol-free event. Bring your friends or make new ones at The Barefoot Boogie!
For more info visit barefootboogie.org.
Your donation benefits Camp Friendship, a non-profit community organization that operates a year round food pantry and local youth programs.
Object: Action, two workshops in one
Sunday, April 26th 2026
1:30pm-3:30pm and 4pm-6pm
price: $30 for one workshop; $50 for both
On Sunday, April 26, come to a pop-up two-part workshop in Action Theater* Improvisation and Improvising with Objects with Rachel Cohen.
1:30pm-3:30pm ET Action Theater Improvisation
4:00pm-6:00pm ET Improvisation with Objects
Attend one, or both
All levels welcome.
Through fun exercises with sound, movement, and speech, we'll explore how the body moving is language, and the voice speaking is movement, and how both can expand the imagination.
Then we'll look at how to extend our body and voice to incorporate objects into our improvisation as physical partners; as extensions or inhibitors of our physical body; and as amplifiers of our inner worlds.
"A playful yet fascinating exploration of our relationships with objects." -Sid Huang
(Can't make this one? The next one will be Sunday, April 26.)
*Action Theater was created by Ruth Zaporah.
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Resistance training for changing times: Notice, experience, respond
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!
