Past events

It's Busby Berkeley meets garden flash mob meets Alice in Wonderland! On Saturday, August 19, at 4pm, Racoco is planting 30 performers in flower-pots at Socrates Sculpture Park in Queens as part of Norte Maar's Dance at Socrates.

Please help us make it even more spectacular!

Dancing with Racoco are Janet Aisawa, Jessica Burstein, Destiny Cabrales, Marianne Camarda, Maryanne Chaney, Rachel Cohen, Megan Curet, Rina Espiritu, Bianca Falco, Nicole Fuentes, Julia Gleich, Jenny Gram, Eva Hansson, Holly Heidt, Delsa Heredia, Masumi Kishimoto, Nicole Lee, Mengying Lin, Kymberly Nolden, Zoe Padden, Dalma Sacasa, Meghan Schardt, Irene Siegel, Despina Stamos, Mary Staub, Emily Winkler-Morey, and Rose Zingale

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Once more, once more unto the breach! Rachel and Leighton and our air dancer (King H-airy, of course) make art and cotton candy as part of the Bindlestiff Open Variety Show! And, in a fortuitous coincidence, Racoco alumna Alisa Fendley will be doing her own aerial act!

A First Look at NYC's Finest Emerging Variety Talents
Circus * Sideshow * Vaudeville * Burlesque * Dance * Music

Come to Dixon Place for a night of variety that will include much more than a simple song and dance. Bindlestiffs Open Stage Variety Show is a non stop variety show experience that may include The Heavy Metal Magician, Kung Fu juggling, trained rats, clown bands, aerial artists, wire walkers, sideshow performers, stripping clowns, living cartoons, physical comedy, a cougar contortionist, emerging burlesque starlets, and more. Hosted by Keith "Bindlestiff" Nelson, the show celebrates works in progress, emerging artists, and professionals trying something new, this night promises many surprises.

If you would like to be on the stage, email keith@bindlestiff.org. Write 'Open Stage' in the subject line!

This Saturday is Bushwick Community Day, a free and family-friendly celebration of Bushwick community organizations, art, dance, performance and music by local talent. From 12-6.

At 1:45pm Masumi Kishimoto, Meghan Schardt, and Toby Billowitz dance with Stephanie Beck's sculptures and Lynn Wright's music

At 3:30pm Rachel, Leighton Edmondson, and their two tall friends serve up cotton candy again to the sounds of Chris Becker.

Rachel and Leighton Edmondson reprise "-overt", now featuring two air dancers, cotton candy, and Shakespeare!

Not so unlike the historic Theater Event #1 that took place at Black Mountain College during the summer of 1952 and Norte Maar's own End of the World performance at English Kills, The Brooklyn Performance Combine unites all art forms in a fusion of poetry, sound, dance, and performance in a single cohesive 120-minute event. It will be epic.

Also featuring

Maria Chavez, sound artist

Poets/Writers:
Bob Holman
Dara Mandle

Artists:
Maria Calandra
Jeri Coppola
Mimi Gross
Hermine Ford
Roy Fowler
Ellie Murphy

Performers:
PT Barnum as played by Ara Fitzgerald
Singer/Song Writer Chris Blacker
Dancer/Choreographer Brandon Collwes
Douglas Dunn + Dancers
Dancer/Choreographer Molissa Fenley
Gleich Dances
konverjdans with musician Max Kanowitz
Aerialists from The MUSE

Jason Andrew's niece, Kate Arbuckle, the harpist

and special guest WABC-TV Meteorologist Amy Freeze

All dances are too long!
60+ choreographers celebrate thirty years of
Fridays at Noon
Short and pithy dances
92Y
May 19 & 20, 8p and 21, 3p

May 21 Rachel and Racoco show an oldie but goodie, an excerpt from Suite, performed by Toby Billowitz and Remi Harris, with music by Rafi Malkiel, and gum.