Past events
Arts on Site Split Bill: I have my grandfather's nose / Between Skin
Sunday, March 15th 20266:30pm
Racoco and JC Project share a split bill in two shows at Arts on Site, on March 15.
If your nose were on someone else’s face, would you look at them the same way? I have my grandfather's nose conjures our grandparents from objects they’ve left behind, jumbling their imagined inner lives with a grandchild’s memories through Racoco's signature blend of dance, music, theater, things, the tender, and the absurd. Performed by assistant director Masumi Kishimoto, Meghan Schardt-Gensberg, Toby Billowitz, and Fina, with chamber and electronic music by Houston composer Chris Becker.
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JC Project's Between Skin investigates the tension that emerges through contrast: softness and resistance, containment and expansion. The body becomes both anchor and architecture to oneself and to one another. Movement is shaped by push and pull, of ligaments, momentum, and invisible strings, requiring constant listening and tactful response to sensation. We asked how bodies negotiate force and what is revealed through the ever-changing exchange of energy.
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The Racoco Jambor-oco
Come to the Racoco Jambor-oco, Racoco Productions' end-of-the-year Open House. We'll dance with the bathrobes of our forebears, apologize to things we've broken, and invite you to try Inanimated Speed Dating*.
Join director Rachel Cohen and Masumi Kishimoto, Meghan Schardt-Gensberg, Toby Billowitz, and Fina anytime 1pm-5pm, for light refreshments, deep conversations, kind fellowship, and Racoco's signature blend of dance, music, theater, things, the tender, and the absurd.
Loose schedule:
1pm Work-in-progress
1:30 Video screening
2pm Inanimated Speed Dating*
2:30 Dealer's choice
3pm Work-in-progress
3:30 Video screening
4pm Inanimated Speed Dating*
4:30 Dealer's choice
*(What is it? Help us find out!)
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.
Doing our part for international relations!
Assemblage 1(b)
Friday, May 16th 20257:30pm
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.
Balancing Mind and Body: The Secrets of Posture and Movement
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.
Allow you to introduce yourself: Action Theater Improvisation
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.
