Slaughter on Nth Avenue TADA THEATER 15 W 28th Street, 2nd Floor map »
Saturday, May 30th 2015 - 5:00pm price : $10 Buy tickets and view program for May 30 at 5pm »Sunday, May 31st 2015 - 5:00pm price : $10 Buy tickets and view program for May 31 at 5pm »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.
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
Sunday, April 19th 2015 - 3:00pm price : $10 suggested donation at the doorSee Rachel present excerpts from Racoco's upcoming 8-person "Slaughter on Nth Avenue," a Broadway-style satire of the War on Terror, in solo form!
Tea Dances is a fun, family-friendly event co-hosted by Emily Faulkner and Jody Sperling. Following the dance performance, featuring works-in-progress and improvisation, tea and cookies will served.
The April program will include work-in-progress excerpts from Jody's upcoming "Ice Cycle," drawing on her recent Arctic experience. Emily will be performing her solo "Lily".
There's No Law at Gowanathon SPOKE THE HUB 748 Union Street, Brooklyn, NY map »
Saturday, March 28th 2015 - 7:30pm Sunday, March 29th 2015 - 3:00pm price : $20 Adults / $10 Kids & Seniors 62+ ($25 at the door); weekend fun passes available Click here to purchase tickets »Rachel C continues moonlighting with improvisation group There's No Law, with Irene Siegel and Michael Henry, this time as part of the Gowanathon Dance Theater Music showcase, also featuring: MC Mike Durkin / Freestyle Rep Theatre, Blowout Theater, Brooklyn Infinity Orchestra, Burr Johnson, Emie Hughes, Feraba, Jess Grippo, Josh Stinton, Matt Moran, Mindy Rebman, Nikki Theroux, Sherine Khatoun, Tatiana Keegan, Frederic Havez, Donofrio Dance Company, Tyrone Williams, Aeilushi and Paulomm, Ana Sosa, Brooklyn Infinity Orchestra, Bridget Cronin, Lori Belilove, Michela Deidda, Sarah Pope, The Amazing Klemtones, and Todd Henry. Click here for daily lineups.
Spoke the Hub's third GOWANATHON is a multi-faceted, arts "share-a-thon" where adults and kids can immerse themselves in an inspirational weekend of dance, theater, music, arts, crafts, cabarets, writers reading, experimental film and dance parties to help raise money for a new stairwell in the Gowanus Arts building on Douglass Street.
There's No Law is an improvisational performance collective drawing inspiration from Ruth Zaporah's Action Theater form. Journeying in the unknown through movement, sound, and narrative, the work scratches away the dull patina of daily life to reveal the glow of madness and pathos just below the surface.
Women in Motion Salon #11 184 GRAND STREET, 5E (CORNER OF MULBERRY), NEW YORK, NY map »
Saturday, March 21st 2015 - 5:00pm price : Sliding scale; drinks $5Racoco revisits good friends Women in Motion for their 11th Salon of women choreographers, in a beautiful Nolita loft space.
We'll show some work in progress, sharing the evening with choreographers Brittany Cosby and Charlotte Blake/BCCB, Dina-Verley Christophe, Tara O'Con, Alexandra Taylor, and the lovely remi harris/dancesbyremi, who will also be dancing with Racoco, along with Rachel Cohen, Masumi Kishimoto, and special guest Yana Schnitzler from Human Kinetics Movement Arts.
