Past events
Preparing for Battle . . .
As 2011 draws to a close, we are girding our loins for all that awaits us in 2012. Help us prepare for battle: please consider making a tax-deductible contribution to Racoco/Rx as part of your end-of-year giving. Any amount is valuable, whether it's $15, $150, $1500, or $15,000.
Thank you to everyone who has already joined the fray!
We are very excited for the November 2012 premiere of our new full-evening production, Tilt. It will be unlike anything you have seen before, combining dance, live music--and carpentry. We've also been invited to give a performance and workshop at Maryland Institute College of Art in February as the first of our Rx Laboratories. Later in the spring we'll be heading to Strömbackaskolan in Piteå, Sweden! And we will continue our fledgling program bringing performances and workshops to therapy and rehabilitation centers, which has been very successful at the centers and extremely rewarding for us. Please join us in our endeavors!
To contribute, click here or send a check to Racoco Productions, 109 N 9th Street 3R, Brooklyn, NY 11249. Any contribution is fully tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law.
Thank you for your ongoing support!
PUPPETS & OBJECTS AT THE CONSTRUCTION COMPANY
Saturday, December 17th 20118:00pm
price: $15/$10<br />Call (212) 924-7882 for reservations
Talented choreographer and performer Ariane Anthony is showing new work at the Construction Company and has invited some guests to be on the program.
Tonight is the last show; Rachel will perform in an improvisational piece by another talented choreographer and performer, Rebekah Windmiller.
Mary Anthony Holiday Studio Performance
Saturday, December 17th 20118:00pm
Sunday, December 18th 20113:00pm
price: $10
For reservations call (212) 674-8191
This weekend Mary Anthony presents her annual performance of her beautiful piece "Ceremony of Carols."
The program also features work by current and former students, including Racoco alumnus Adrian Jevicki. Saturday night Masumi Kishimoto performs a Racoco solo, and on Sunday Rachel Cohen and Kelly Kocinski will join her. Kelly also reprises her role in "Carols" both nights.
Mary, who turned 95 this year, will teach her annual Christmas Eve class on December 24.
Racoco/Rx at South Beach Psychiatric Center
Thursday, October 20th 201110:00am
As part of South Beach Center's Wellness Day on Thursday, October 20, we'll perform pieces from our repertory, followed by a workshop in "Making Dances" - we'll demonstrate how we make a piece, and participants will get to direct the dancers and create their own movements.
A PRIZE EVERY TIME
Concept and Programming by Sally Silvers
Wednesday, October 12th 20118:00pm
price: $15 General Admission<br />$10 Members/Students/Seniors
Rachel performs Wednesday night as part of Sally Silvers' series (which continues Friday-Sunday with different line-ups each night):
Four nights of movement-centered, on-the-spot collaborations with Theater Directors, Choreographers, Coaches, & Instructors from diverse fields and backgrounds to construct new performance compositions live each night on the spot. Each collaborative 'team' will work on and with sugar-shaking genre performers (different each night) from dance, theater, sports, burlesque, and more, to create 3 or 4 works-in-progress per night in front of you: the audience.
Line-up on Wednesday
Choreographers: Neil Greenberg, Sara East Johnson, Gus Solomons, Jr., Arturo Vidich, Bill Young
Directors: Gabriella Barnstone, John Jesurun, Matthew Maguire, Shelley Molad, Lizzie Olesker
Performers: Aaron Draper, Ken Glickfeld, Mailee Okamura, Christopher Williams, Belinda He, Rachel Lehrer, Rachel Cohen, Kathy Westwater, Robert Maynard, Maxwell Heller, Takemi Kitamura, Ursula Scherrer, Jody Oberfelder, Gretchen Ludwig (BB Heart), Peekaboo Pointe, Julia Planine-Troiani
Fridays at Noon Kickoff at the 92nd Street Y Harkness Dance Center
Friday, September 23rd 20112:00pm
price: Free
Rachel Cohen, Alisa Fendley, and Masumi Kishimoto will perform three short excerpts from our work-in-progress "Tilt," now with new music by Lynn Wright.
The entire program is 12pm-3pm; we're in the 2pm-3pm slot.
We're in good company -- also on the program:
Suzanne Beahrs, Sumi Clements & Taryn Vander Hoop, Emily Faulkner, Kim Gibilisco, Daniela Hoff, Randy James, Andrew Jannetti, Krista Jansen, Catey Ott, Becky Radway, Annie Sailer, Cara Surico, Makiko Tamura, and Hee Ra Yoo.
