Thursday February 27, 2025
Novel Formats #3:Loop
The Fridman Gallery, as part of their performance series New Ear
169 Bowery, New York, NY 10002
More info TBA
New Ear
With Julian Barnett, Evan Patrick O'Reilly, Jean Carla Rodea, and myself

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 -

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
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