Masters of Ceremony

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 venues over the past four years, the group practices spontaneous action as a way to experience and share composition and choreography in the moment, continuously seeking a collective consciousness as well as individual presence. Scores, principles and structures are both developed and discarded, as the search for a trans-disciplinary understanding of risk and relationship, dialogue and intention, keeps this collective on its toes and ears.

Since 2011, Master of Ceremony has been presented at The Moving Sounds Festival, The Vision Festival, The NOT Festival, The Poetry Project at St. Marks Church, Movement Research at Judson Church, as artists-in-residence at Jalopy, The BIG ROOM's Take Your Time Series, The Firehouse Space and internationally in Vienna, Austria, Kassel, Germany and in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Masters of Ceremony were the keynote performers at Stonybrook University's Philosophy and Art Conference, 2013.