Past events

Tea Dances are fun, family-friendly performances that are followed by refreshments.

Rachel Cohen, Alisa Fendley, Rebecca Ketchum, Masumi Kishimoto, and Kelly Kocinski will be performing excerpts of recent Racoco work.

Jody Sperling's Time Lapse Dance shares excerpts from "Turbulence," a new work-in-progress. The dancers whip silk into motion to visualize patterns of air disturbance. Swirling and swooping to a brand-new percussion score by Quentin Chiappetta, the women make a dynamic connection between rhythmic and spatial architecture.

Emily Faulkner's Wind-up Circus runs the finale from their recent work combining acrobatic, circus-inspired spectacle with exquisitely delicate movement and deadpan wit. Think post-modern dance meets Alice in Wonderland.

And stick around for tea and cookies after the performance!

"Like being lost in a fun-house mirror, sweet and innocent and threatening all at once. " -The New York Times

Directed by Rachel Cohen
Assistant director Pablo Francisco Ruvalcaba, courtesy of the Limon Company
Design by Olek
Music by Chris Becker
Lighting by Sarah Sidman

Performed by Joelle Arnusch, Rachel Cohen, Richard Epstein, Adrian Jevicki, Rebecca Ketchum, Kelly Kocinski, and Aaron Simunovich

Production stage manager Rob Signum

Understudies/prop assistants: Alisa Fendley and Masumi Kishimoto

Funded in part through Meet The Composer's MetLife Creative Connections program.

Reconstructed during the company's residency at CAVE.

SITE Fest is a two-day interdisciplinary event highlighting the diversity of performance in Bushwick. Encompassing and blending a variety of forms including theater, dance and music, SITE investigates the neighborhood as an unfolding collaborative performance enacted in urban space.

Rachel Cohen will be performing with Jeff Morris, leader of Kotorino, on slide guitar, Caroline Ritson on harp and musical saw, and 300 wire hangers.

Racoco will showcase part of If The Shoe Fits and a segment from the work-in-progress Tilt at the 2011 Arts Presenters Conference. We'll be performing three times as part of the Construction Company showcase at City Center, Studio 5, at 10:10, 11:30, and 12:50.

Also on the program are Anabella Lenzu/DanceDrama, Artichoke Dance, FREEFALL, Jody Oberfelder Dance Projects, Kinesis Project dance theater, Paradizo Dance, and Jonathan Reidel Dance Theater. The whole program starts at 9:30am and cycles through three times.

Racoco will present two works in progress on a program featuring Mary Anthony's lovely "Ceremony of Carols." Also performing are Ariane Anthony, Adrian Jevicki, and Andrea Pastorella. The performances are dedicated to our friend and MADT devotee Ellen Simon. We miss her.