Rachel Bernsen
ON THE HORIZON

Saturday May 19, 2012
8pm
Take Your Time Performance Series
at The BIG ROOM
New Haven, CT

Saturday June 9, 2012
8pm
Studio Show at The BIG ROOM
New Haven, CT

Saturday, June 16, 2012
Oh, Solo
7pm
The Vision Festival
Roulette
509 Atlantic Ave, Brooklyn, NY

July 16-August 1, 2012
Quartet Collective in Vienna & Berlin -locations and dates TBA

PAST EVENTS

February 12, March 4, April 1, May 6
7:30pm
Jalopy Theatre - 315 Columbia Street Brooklyn, NY
Sound & Movement Experiments with Quartet Collective (RB, Taylor Ho Bynum, Abraham Gomez-Delgado, Melanie Maar) on a shared bill with Emily's Tiny Theater, Emily Coates & Charlie Burnham. With special guests!
Jalopy Theatre

December 3, 2011 8pm
Unnamed Action Collective (RB, Taylor Ho Bynum, Abraham Gomez-Delgado, Melanie Maar)
Shared evening with dance scholar Danielle Goldman and composer Carl Testa
TAKE YOUR TIME Performance Series
The BIG ROOM
New Haven, CT

December 3-4, 2011, Saturday 8pm, Sunday 7pm
TAKE YOUR TIME Performance Series
December 3
An evening of critical thinking, viewing and listening:
dance scholar Danielle Goldman, professor of The Arts, Dance
at the New School will talk on the nature of improvisation,
followed by Action Theory, an improvisational collective,
and the premiere of a new composition by composer and
performer on bass and electronics, Carl Testa.
December 4
Dance, music, film
Solo project by multi-instrumentalist, composer and visual artist Abraham Gomez Delgado, new work by dancer choreographer Melanie Maar, and a work-in-progress screening of a new documentary film by MeND Motion Pictures

December 2, 2011 10pm
Quartet Collective(RB, Taylor Ho Bynum, Abraham Gomez-Delgado, & Melanie Maar)
The Poetry Project
St. Marks Church
New York, NY

December 1, 2011 8pm
With Anthony Braxton
Pine Top Aerial Music
Anthony Braxton Small Ensemble Concert
Wesleyan University Center For the Arts, Crowell Concert Hall
Middletown, CT

November 5, 2011 time TBA
Participating artist
Think Jam: A Symposium on Improvisation Across Disciplines
World Performance Project at Yale
Yale University, New Haven, CT
World Performance Project

October 1, 2011 7:15pm
Quartet Collective(RB, Taylor Ho Bynum, Abraham Gomez-Delgado, & Melanie Maar)
NOT FESTIVAL
Performances, exhibitions, jams, lectures, September 24 - October 8th
39 Ainslie St. Williamsburg, Brooklyn Directions
Brooklyn, New York

October 5, 2011 8pm
Performing with composer Anthony Braxton
Pine Top Aerial Music
Tri-Centric Festival
Roulette
Brooklyn, NY

June 10, 2011 8:45pm
The Vision Festival
Abrons Arts Center, NYC
Action Theory
New collaboration with Taylor Ho Bynum, Abraham Gomez Delgado,
and Melanie Maar
The Vision Festival

June 9-11, 2011 8:30 & 9:30
The Vision Festival
Abrons Arts Center, NYC
Aesthetic Arrest: Site-specific performances led by Emily Coates with Sonja Kostich, Brandi Norton, Rachel Bernsen, Elizabeth DeMent, Bronwen MacArthur, and musicians Will Orzo, Mike Irwin and special guests. (I'll be performing June 10-11th only)
The Vision Festival

June 1-29, 2011
Teaching at Movement Research, NYC
Alexander Technique for Dancers
Weds 12:30-2pm
Eden's Expressway
Movement Research

June 18, 2011
Teaching Alexander Technique
Embodying Creativity: Engaging Creative Collaboration Through
Movement And Play.
International Festival of Arts and Ideas
April 2011
Teaching Alexander Technique
Yale University, Dept. of Theater Studies

May 27-28, 2011 at 8pm
Take Your Time Performance Series
The BIG ROOM New Haven, CT
A shared evening with Adele Myers and Dancers

March 12, 2011 at 8pm
Catch! Performance Series
Bushwick Starr, Brooklyn, NY
Catch!

March 18 & 20, 2011
On tour in Italy with composer Taylor Ho Bynum:
March 18:
Enoteca del jazz, Molfetta, Italy
March 20:
SCUOLA POPOLARE DI MUSICA IVAN ILLICH
Bologna, Italy

Friday February 18, 2011
Waver, a collaboration with composer Carl Testa
Resonant Bodies, The Hartford New Music Festival
The Studio at Billings Forge
539 Broad Street
Hartford, CT
7:30pm
Hartford New Music Festival

January 20, 2011
Betwixt & Between, an exhibition of video works,
presents Dance In Dialogue, a one night only Live Event
with performances by Rachel Bernsen and Adele Myers
Artspace, New Haven, CT
8pm
buy tickets

November 12, 2010
Guest-Artist-in-residence showing
Wesleyan University Dance Dept.
Schonberg Dance Studio
247 Pine St. Middletown, CT
4pm - Free and open to the public

Friday and Saturday Oct 29,30 at 8pm
Take Your Time Performance Series Fall Festival
Featuring Emily Coates and Lacina Coulibaly, Aaron Jafferis, Rachel Bernsen and Carl Testa with Anne Rhodes,
Taylor Ho Bynum and Kyoko Kitamura, and special guest Pete Fitzpatrick!
The BIG ROOM
New Haven, CT

July 12-24, 2010
Teaching
Moscow Dance Agency Tsekh
Moscow, Russia
Tsekh
This project was funded in part by Dance Theater Workshop's Suitcase Fund as part of the East/Central Europe Cultural Partnerships program, with support from the Trust for Mutual Understanding.

May 28, 2010
Take Your Time Performance Series
Rachel Bernsen's Glimmer Glint Glisten / New works by Carl Testa
A co-presentation of The Big Room and The Uncertainty Music Series
Featuring Taylor Ho Bynum, Anne Rhodes and Broadcloth, and Matthew Welch
The Big Room
315 Peck St. New Haven, CT
Directions
Seating is limited. Reservations recommended.
To reserve tix: thebigroomnewhaven@gmail.com

February 8, 2010
User
With Danielle Goldman and Carl Testa
Movement Research at the Judson Church
Movement Research

December 16, 2009
Glimmer Glint Glisten
AND a collaboration with Matthew Welch
Issue Project Room
Brooklyn, NY
Issue Project Room

October 10, 2009
Catch Performance Series
Bushwick Starr
Brooklyn, NY
Catch Series

October 3, 2009
Unicorns Were Horses
8pm
Artspace City Wide Open Studios Event
Erector Square. Bldg 6W Studio D
New Haven, CT 06513
Artspace cwos

June 19-21, 2009
Performing in Wally Cardona's Really Real
International Festival of Arts & Ideas
New Theater, New Haven, CT
Int'l Festival of Arts & Ideas

April 24, 2009
a collaboration with composer and bagpipes player Matt Welch
Roulette
20 Greene St. New York, NY
www.roulette.org

March 7, 2009
Unicorns Were Horses
Danspace Project Winter DraftWork Series
New York, NY
shared program with Chris Peck and Milka Djordjevich
curated by Ishmael Houston-Jones
www.danspaceproject.org

Jan 28 & 29, 2009
Unicorns Were Horses
Brink at Dixon Place
New York, NY
shared program with robbinschilds
curated by Michael Helland
www.dixonplace.org

Dec 18, 2008
Unicorns Were Horses site specific event
Studio
New Haven, CT
shared evening with Taylor Ho Bynum, Adele Myers, Nate Boyer, and others
curated by Rachel Bernsen

October 14, 2008
Unicorns Were Horses work-in-progress
Throw at The Chocolate Factory
Long Island City, New York
www.chocolatefactorytheater.or