• ON THE HORIZON


    Sunday November 17, 2024
    Studio Show - duet with saxophonist & flutist Caroline Davis
    Email me if you'd like to attend: rachelbernsen@gmail.com

    Saturday November 9, 2024
    10pm
    With Taylor Ho Bynum, Tomas Fujiwara, Ayako Kato, Jason Roebke
    Hungry Brain
    Chicago, IL
    On a double bill with Taylor Ho Bynum/Tomas Fujiwara duo
    Tickets & Info

    Somatics and Movement Improvisation Class - 4 class series.
    Mondays
    5-6:30pm
    10/28, 11/4, 11/11, 11/18
    All levels welcome
    $20 per class / $65 for 4
    $15 reduced rate
    Cash or Venmo at the door
    Riverside Fitness - 65 Main St. Windsor, VT
    RSVP recommended to rachelbernsen(at)gmail.com
    - See Teaching page for full class description -

    Thursday February 27, 2025
    Novel Formats #3
    New Ear:: at the Fridman Gallery - 169 Bowery, NY, NY 10002
    More info TBA

  • PAST EVENTS


    October 6, 2024
    6:30pm
    NOVEL FORMATS #2, The Set Up
    JAM - Junction Arts & Media
    5 S. Main Street, White River Junction, VT
    RSVP

    April, 2024
    Guest Teacher
    Bennington College
    Movement Composition for Improvisors

    February 3, 2024
    5:30pm
    Dialogue (number one)
    A spontaneous performance event
    The first movement of a new performance suite, NOVEL FORMATS
    Featuring dancer Ellen Smith Ahern, cellist Tomeka Reid, vocalist Kyoko Kitamura, cornetist and multi-instrumentalist Taylor Ho Bynum, and visual artist Lindsay Packer
    JAM - Junction Arts & Media
    5 S. Main St. White River Junction, VT
    Free and open to the public
    More info

    November/December 2023
    Movement Director
    Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol
    Adapted and Directed by Carol Dunne
    November 21 - December 31, 2023
    Northern Stage

    October 2023
    Guest Teacher
    Yale School of Art
    Teaching Preparing Ourselves, Performing the Performance Lecture

    July 2023
    Choreographer
    NOISE
    A Musical by César Alvarez
    Directed by Sarah Benson
    July 27-30
    Hopkins Center for the Arts & Northern Stage
    Info & Tickets

    May 2, 2023
    Bennington College, department of music
    Somatic Convergences: master class in the principles of the Alexander Technique into interdisciplinary sound and movement improvisation

    January 8, 2023
    Performance with saxophonist/composer Caroline Davis, cellist/composer Tomeka Reid, dancer/choreographer Ayako Kato
    9pm CST
    Hungry Brain
    2319 Belmont Ave, Chicago, IL 60618
    Caroline Davis
    Tomeka Reid
    Ayako Kato

    October 20-24, 2022
    Multiple performances with cellist/composer Tomeka Reid and dancer/choreographer Ayako Kato
    10/20 Antwerp, Belgium
    De Studio Sound In Motion
    10/22 Moers, Germany
    Moers Festival, Konzert im Oktober Schlosstheater Studio
    10/23 Wuppertal, Germany
    Double C, Hofaue 8a 42103 Wuppertal -6pm
    10/24 Duisburg, Germany
    Lokal Harmonie

    July 24, 2022
    The Junction Dance Festival, White River Junction, VT
    Contemplative Dance Practice Event
    Open Door Integrative Wellness Center
    The Junction Dance Festival

    April 7-9, 2022
    Invited guest artist, presenter
    2022 American Philosophies Forum Conference
    On Freedom and Liberation
    Atlanta, Georgia
    Emory University, College of Arts & Sciences
    American Philosophies Forum

    May 2020 - POSTPONED - I HOPE TO MAKE THIS HAPPEN IN FUTURE
    Ceremony of Strangers (working title)
    May 14 &15 at 8pm / May 16 at 4pm
    May Artist-in-Residence
    Karl Kemp Performance Space
    Balance Arts Center, New York, NY
    Balance Arts Center

    Nov 17-19, 2019
    Yvonne Rainer's Parts of Some Sextets
    A reconstruction by Yvonne Rainer & Emily Coates of Rainer's seminal work from 1965
    Performa 19
    Watch an excerpt from the performance

    Jun 30, 2019
    Workshop in the practice of movement improvisation
    American Society for Alexander Teachers (AmSAT) Annual Conference
    Columbia University

    Jun 28, 29, 2019
    Presenter with Rachel Kauder Nalebuff
    An experimental sound and movement choir for Alexander Teachers workshop and performance
    American Society for Alexander Teachers (AmSAT) Annual Conference
    Columbia University

    April 13, 2019
    Presenter with Rachel Kauder Nalebuff
    I Know You So Well, A Workshop
    Healing Fractures in Healthcare Through an Experimental Choir
    NYU Educational Theatre & Drama Therapy Forum 2019: Theatre and Health
    More info

    March 8, 2019
    I Know You So Well
    A performance, a film screening, a talk about
    7:30-9pm
    Artspace New Haven - 50 Orange St. New Haven 06510
    Free, open to the public
    More info

    November 5-25, 2018
    Montalvo Arts Center
    Lucas Artists Residency
    Saratoga, CA

    October 26-28, 2018
    I Know You So Well: A Sound and Movement Choir
    Artspace City Wide Open Studio
    Alternative Space at Yale West Campus
    4pm each day
    Free (& free shuttle buses will be available from New Haven)

    October 9, 2018
    Masters of Ceremony
    Institute for Archetypal Symbols
    28 East 39th Street, New York, NY 10016
    7pm
    aras.org