Rachel Cohen has made and performed interdisciplinary work in New York City for 30 years, in the orbits of seminal creative communities: Mary Anthony Dance Theater, Galapagos Art Space, Cave, Norte Maar, The Construction Company, ChaShaMa, Triskelion Arts, and Ruth Zaporah's Action Theater improvisation. Since designing her own concentration, "Performance as Communication", at Harvard University, she has continued to carve her own path, fusing raw materials with absurdist visuals, quixotic choreography, and inventive improvisation. In 2003, she founded performance company Racoco Productions. The New York Times's John Rockwell listed "If the Shoe Fits," Rachel's collaboration with composer Chris Becker and visual artist Olek, among NYC's dance highlights of 2005. Rachel has been Harvard's Clifton Visiting Artist, a Field Dance Fund Fellowship awardee, and a Women in Motion commissioned artist. She has developed projects for diverse audiences and environments, in NYC including Symphony Space, World Financial Center, Incubator Art Space, Creedmore Psychiatric Center, Slipper Room, and Socrates Sculpture Park, and in New Mexico, Maryland, France, England, Czechia, Poland, India, and Vietnam. Projects have explored dough, clay, taffy, gum, paper, wood, dirt, and metal and featured pinatas, air dancers, vacuum cleaners, bathrobes, apples, a cotton candy machine, and 25 oversized flower pots.
