Past events
Soaking WET
Thursday, September 24th 20157:00pm
Friday, September 25th 20157:00pm
Saturday, September 26th 20157:00pm
Racoco shares a program with Karen Bernard, Marsi Burns & Alice Teirstein, and Deirdre Towers.
"New Developments" is the premiere of a new tactile interaction between performers and paper, in a continued collaboration with visual artist Stephanie Beck, to original music by Lynn Wright. The fluid relationships between the paper constructions and the performers link architecture and the body, order and absurdity, and evolution and real estate.
"New Developments" is the latest chapter of a two-year collaboration nurtured at CAVE, chashama, Arts in Bushwick, and Norte Maar, and is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.
Performed by Toby Billowitz, Rachel Cohen, Masumi Kishimoto, and Meghan Schardt.
The Alternative Pop-Up Gesture Store at 1067 Pacific, this weekend
Saturday, July 11th 20152:00pm
Sunday, July 12th 20152:00pm
price: Free to enter; the cost of a Gesture is a Gesture in return
This Saturday Rachel will be a guest at
The Alternative Pleasure Pop Up Gesture Store where performance artists Carrie Ahern, Andrea Haenggi, and writer Robert Neuwirth "sell" individual kinaesthetic experiences, or "gestures". The payment? A "gesture" in return.
Saturday, July 11, and Sunday, July 12, from 2pm-8pm. Rachel will be there Saturday 2-5:30.
There's No Law with special guest Cassie Tunick
Tuesday, June 16th 20157:00pm
price: $3 suggested donation at door
Eden's Expressway
537 Broadway, 4th Floor; between Prince and Spring
As part of Movement Research Open Performance, Rachel Cohen and Michael Henry of There's No Law are joined by Cassie Tunick in a 12-minute improvisation.
Also on the program are Jamie Benson, Mindy Toro, and Martita Abril.
Followed by a moderated discussion.
chashama gala
Monday, June 8th 20156:00pm
Racoco is honored to have been asked to perform at chashama's 20th anniversary gala. Rachel Cohen, Masumi Kishimoto, Megan Schardt, Mary Staub, and Susan Steinman will invite attendees into a shifting paper landscape to the musical stylings of Lynn Wright.
chashama nurtures artists by transforming unused property into work and presentation space.
Racoco has performed at several of chashama's spaces over the past few years.
Bushwick Community Day 2015
Saturday, June 6th 20152:00pm
price: Free!
Racoco will participate again in this year's Bushwick Community Day celebration at Maria Hernandez Park, "a free and inclusive celebration of Bushwick organizations, individuals and artists through art, performance, and social action."
Toby Billowitz, Rachel Cohen, Bianca Falco, Masumi Kishimoto, Hiram Pines, Meghan Schardt, and Wen-Shuan Yang will recreate last year's "Paper Trail" with some new twists.
Slaughter on Nth Avenue
As part of Emerging Artist Theater's New Works Series, Racoco presents "Slaughter on Nth Avenue," a snappy Broadway-style dance number inspired by journalist Glenn Greenwald, Kurt Jooss's dance and war parable The Green Table, Mel Brooks, and Busby Berkeley, romping through terrorism, troop deployment, indefinite detention, illegal wiretapping, cherry-picked alliances, Islamophobia, waterboarding, high-level immunity, embedded journalists, prosecution and persecution of whistleblowers, assassination of citizens, spying, and public powerlessness and ambivalence.
Racoco shares the program with other work-in-progress (click on ticket link to see each evening's lineup). Each evening is followed by an audience feedback session with the directors.
With design by Stephanie Beck
Image by Karen Simon at Simon Does.
Performed by: Rachel Cohen, Masumi Kishimoto, Kayt MacMaster, Alex Rodabaugh, Megan Schardt, Irene Siegel, Mary Staub, Susan Steinman, and Rose Zingale
THIS PROGRAM IS SUPPORTED, IN PART, BY PUBLIC FUNDS FROM THE NEW YORK CITY DEPARTMENT OF CULTURAL AFFAIRS IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE CITY COUNCIL
