Racoco in the press
“I enjoyed being inside this magical world (and Rachel Cohen's genius mind) so much that I did not want this show to end. The mysterious universe Rachel and her team has created is joyful, humorous, dark, surprising, human, and surreal all at once.”
“Rachel Cohen’s “Tilt”, a world premiere presentation of Racoco Productions at the Abrons Arts Center of the Henry Street Settlement on the Lower East Side, was 80 minutes of creative genius”
“Against Cohen’s immersive relationship, we see abstracted expressions human relationships on a scale from codependent to negligent within joints interlocking people in a social skeleton.”
““I would,” dedicated to Cervantes, points to the chivalric romances parodied in “Don Quixote.” Though there’s a hint of Christian crucifixion, Ms. Cohen seems more concerned with cycles, with how the other dancers’ characters sacrifice and supplant hers.”
“Cohen sees the world as an elaborate series of tales and adventures where visual art, literature, music, theater and movement meld. She intrigues and piques our curiosity even as she and her dancers fall apart amidst the squalor on stage. Falling apart is a lot of the fun in Cohen’s newest work I –Would, a title that refers tongue in cheek to the building material that predominates the piece.”
“Cohen is king to her knights and clearly holds court as things begin, but by the end, each warrior is ready for her own coronation, in a ring of her peers with flower-hands all around, like some '40s musical extravaganza. It is charming and even surprisingly touching, and every bit of absurdity makes sense by the end.”
“"If the Shoe Fits," Rachel Cohen's fairy-tale fantasy with the lovely Michelle Vargo as a bemused Cinderella, was worth the pilgrimage to the tiny Walkerspace in TriBeCa.”
“In fact, two of the loveliest dance programs I've seen this year were suffused with circus imagery.”
“In a dance world dominated by stripped-down abstraction, Rachel Cohen poses a refreshing alternative. Her new piece, "If the Shoe Fits" [..] is a beguiling puzzlement.”
“But it is in the last piece of the evening, “How Many Licks,” that Cohen gets to use the full breadth of her experimentation. It is a surreal, quixotic and puzzling piece.”
