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NOVEL FORMATS #1-7 A Dialogue The Set Up Loop Pile Up For A Time You Are Here, Change x 3 Rider This project is supported in part by The Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant, JAM-Junction Arts & Media, NEFA’s New England Dance Fund and the generosity of individual donors. Donate to support this project.…

In process with Tomeka Reid & Ayako Kato November, 2022 De Studio, Antwerp, Belgium With cellist Tomeka Reid and dancer Ayako Kato. Special guest on bass, Joe Morris. Photo by Geert Vandepoele

Changes April 2020 A short shortConceived and performed by Rachel Bernsen

Springside (What Happens at the Falls) 2020/21 A film collage of live action, hand-drawn animation, and stop motion animation. Music by Taylor Ho Bynum (solo cornet)Editing by Lucas James

I Know You So Well A Sound and Movement Choir for People Who Work in Healthcare Created in conjunction with writer Rachel Kauder Nalebuff, with musical direction from composers Taylor Ho Bynum & Kyoko Kitamura. Loosely adapted from Plato’s symposium, I Know You So Well examines the fracture of an industry or place. Our first iteration, commissioned…

Anthony Braxton’s Pine Top Aerial Music Anthony Braxton’s Pine Top Aerial Music (PTAM) is a multi-disciplinary system for dancers and musicians. PTAM is designed to foster a compositional unity wherein different disciplines perform as one “unit of activity” throughout, translating Braxton’s language into the three-dimensional realm, creating a ritualized performative space through a kind of…

Anthony Braxton’s Trillium J 2014 A semi-staged, multi-media concert performance of Braxton’s latest four-act opera, featuring a cast of 12 vocalists, 12 instrumental soloists, and full orchestra. “I fail to describe my feelings having never experienced anything like this before. Perhaps one could compare Trillium J to Richard Foreman’s plays in the way it captures the absurd,…

Masters of Ceremony 2013 Masters of Ceremony brings together four artists across disciplines as equal partners in a shared endeavor: dancer/choreographers Rachel Bernsen and Melanie Maar, and musician/composers Taylor Ho Bynum and Abraham Gomez-Delgado. MoC got together to experiment with doing and undoing music and dance in performance. Performing together in various music and dance…

Colorada 2015 Colorada is the fourth in a series of collaborations with visual artist Megan Craig. The Spanish word “colorada” expresses redness, an act of coloring, dying or painting, blushing, or the deepening of a ruddy hue. It indicates a slippage between process and product, underscoring the irresolvable verbal and nominal nature of color and color experience.…

Traveling in Place 2017 Yale Art Gallery, New Haven, CT Traveling In Place is an improvisational performance and installation created and performed by Rachel Bernsen and Megan Craig, a visual artist and Associate Professor of Philosophy at Stony Brook University, New York, in conjunction with the special exhibition at the Yale University Art Gallery: Small-Great…