News flash!
We've reserved Western Sky Studio for our next Moment's Notice show: Sunday evening, April 14, 2013. More details to come, but for now: save the date!
2.06.2013
3.14.2012
This Sunday's show!
We're going to have so much fun. Join us!
March 18, 7:00pm
$8-$20 (sliding scale)
Western Sky Studio, 2525 8th St., Berkeley
Featuring:
Rhonda Morton & Owen Walker : physical theater & music
Rebecca Bryant : dance & video
Cathie Caraker : dance
Kim Criswell & Victoria Pizzinat Joy : physical theater
Stu Phillips & Natalia Carballo: dance
...and, most likely, surprise guests. After all, without an element of
chance, it wouldn't be Moment's Notice.
Tickets available at the door.
For artists' links and details, please scroll down to our last blog update!
3.02.2012
On Sunday, March 18, at 7pm...
We're putting the finishing touches on the line-up for our next show — 7pm at Western Sky Studio, 2525 8th St., Berkeley, tickets at the door: $8-$20 (sliding scale.)
Some terrific performers are joining us from out of town: Rhonda Morton (New York) and Rebecca Bryant (Indiana). And, some of our favorite locals will be returning to Moment's Notice on March 18: Owen Walker, Cathie Caraker, Kim Criswell, Victoria Pizzinat Joy, and others.
Rhonda Morton (Alligator Mouth Improv) is teaming up with Owen Walker (Action Theater Bay Area) for a romp into the wilds of mind, music and madness.
Each has performed at Moment's Notice in the past, to much acclaim.
This is the first time we'll see them together as a trio — such a tantalizing combination!
(That's Rhonda at right. Sadly, the fountain will not be able to appear at Moment's Notice.)
Dancer/Improviser/Choreographer Rebecca Bryant creates performances
that combine movement, text, video, sound and objects. Known for her “wonderful insistence on making
art about complex ideas” (Janice Steinberg, San Diego Union Tribune), Bryant is
interested in blurring the lines that separate artistic disciplines as she
addresses current societal phenomena.
In addition to solo work, she is an active collaborator, creating performances with Lower Left Performance Collective (dance/theater) and the Past Modern Performance Duo (dance/percussion/new media). She has danced with renowned and emerging choreographers including Victoria Marks, Nina Martin, Wally Cardona, Kim Epifano, Shelley Senter, Lionel Popkin, Liam Clancy, Marianne Kim, Randé Dorn, and Manuelito Biag. Bryant has performed her work across the US and in Canada, Mexico, Argentina, Spain, Germany, Romania, Denmark, Norway and Sweden, with projects being supported by residencies at Djerassi Resident Artist Program (California) and Guapamacátaro Art and Ecology Residency (Mexico).
Dance critics have called Bryant’s work “humorous, subtle, and provocative” (David Lemberg, Artscape Media), “exploding with suggestions” (Zachary Whittenburg, Chicago Dancemakers Forum), and “a stunning and witty experience.” (Nancy Wozny, Dance Source Houston) Bryant currently resides in Indiana where she is Assistant Professor of Dance at Purdue University, and continues to travel the world teaching ensemble improvisation, contact improvisation and contemporary technique.
Cathie Caraker is an itinerant dance artist, teacher and performer. She has studied, taught, researched and performed widely, deeply and trans-continentally in the field of New Dance for 30+ years.
Cathie says that, as always, she is deeply grateful to the MoNo gals for this opportunity to no-know a bit more.
Kim Criswell and Victoria Pizzinat Joy improvise from their senses with humor and musicality to create playful, body-sound-and-soul-based, physical theater. On this Sunday before spring equinox, they'll seek inspiration from (human) nature. Perhaps they'll find balance between darkness and light.
Some terrific performers are joining us from out of town: Rhonda Morton (New York) and Rebecca Bryant (Indiana). And, some of our favorite locals will be returning to Moment's Notice on March 18: Owen Walker, Cathie Caraker, Kim Criswell, Victoria Pizzinat Joy, and others.
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| Rhonda Morton |
Each has performed at Moment's Notice in the past, to much acclaim.
This is the first time we'll see them together as a trio — such a tantalizing combination!
(That's Rhonda at right. Sadly, the fountain will not be able to appear at Moment's Notice.)
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| Rebecca Bryant |
In addition to solo work, she is an active collaborator, creating performances with Lower Left Performance Collective (dance/theater) and the Past Modern Performance Duo (dance/percussion/new media). She has danced with renowned and emerging choreographers including Victoria Marks, Nina Martin, Wally Cardona, Kim Epifano, Shelley Senter, Lionel Popkin, Liam Clancy, Marianne Kim, Randé Dorn, and Manuelito Biag. Bryant has performed her work across the US and in Canada, Mexico, Argentina, Spain, Germany, Romania, Denmark, Norway and Sweden, with projects being supported by residencies at Djerassi Resident Artist Program (California) and Guapamacátaro Art and Ecology Residency (Mexico).
Dance critics have called Bryant’s work “humorous, subtle, and provocative” (David Lemberg, Artscape Media), “exploding with suggestions” (Zachary Whittenburg, Chicago Dancemakers Forum), and “a stunning and witty experience.” (Nancy Wozny, Dance Source Houston) Bryant currently resides in Indiana where she is Assistant Professor of Dance at Purdue University, and continues to travel the world teaching ensemble improvisation, contact improvisation and contemporary technique.
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| Cathie Caraker |
Cathie says that, as always, she is deeply grateful to the MoNo gals for this opportunity to no-know a bit more.
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| Vitta Joy |
Kim Criswell and Victoria Pizzinat Joy improvise from their senses with humor and musicality to create playful, body-sound-and-soul-based, physical theater. On this Sunday before spring equinox, they'll seek inspiration from (human) nature. Perhaps they'll find balance between darkness and light.
2.14.2012
Save the Date!
Sunday, March 18, 2012
at 7pm. Details coming soon...
See you there!
12.02.2011
A Sunday Evening in December
Our next Moment's Notice is on SUNDAY, December 18th at 7pm.
That's a new night and time, but the location is the still Western Sky Studio in the Sawtooth Building at 2525 8th St., Berkeley, CA.
Tickets are sliding scale, $8-$20, available at the door.
We have some great performers this December.
Emily Fox is a physical theater performer who especially delights in improvisation. With her body, voice and presence (and possibly a prop or two), Emily becomes a conduit for characters and images that arise, as worlds form to be explored.
In 1999, Emily performed the solo improvisation Right this Way Into the Fire for the San Francisco Fringe Festival; her solo clown show, One or Two Things won Best of San Francisco Fringe in 2001. Her many ensemble performances over the years have included countless improvisational shows and Heaven’s Radio, with Shinichi lova-Koga’s inkBoat, in 2003. She is a graduate of the Dell Arte School of Physical Theater and has studied, practiced, and taught Action Theater.
Emily retired from theater eight years ago. This performance marks an unexpected return and a coming home.
Katarina Eriksson has been involved with improvisational dance since 1989, collaborating with Julyen Hamilton, Ray Chung, Cathie Caraker and others, teaching in Europe and the US, and co-curating Moments Notice, which she co-founded.
Recent performance endeavors include: Artist in Residency at CounterPULSE, touring in Sweden and Germany with improvising folk dance troupe Hoppalappa Postfolki Tanziteatteri, directing multi-disciplinary performances at Earthdance, Massachusetts and Movement Research at Judson Church, New York, and co-creating the site-specific performance piece A Perfectly Safe Hideout in Beirut, Lebanon.
For this show, she’s performing with Shree Shyam Das who she had the pleasure to work with in the E/merge Festival in Massachusetts a couple of years ago. They think of their piece as an audio-visual contact duet and calls it: Flying Bones.
Shree Shyam Das is a percussionist, bassist, and drummer who has worked with the San Francisco Mime Troupe, world-music pioneer Jai Uttal, beatbox/loop phenom Kid Beyond, the New Pickle Circus, Polish reggae band Village of Peace, Indian hip-pop diva Shakti, and world-renowned tabla artist Suphala, among others. His music is on the web at www.thatshyamguy.bandcamp.com and
Gray draws from an eclectic background of improv theater, dance, gymnastics, linguistics, Zen Buddhism and Corporate America to explore the intersections of identity, culture and spirituality.
Fresh from recent shows in Santa Fe and New York, Gray’s Superhero X continues her search for Who She Is by trying on her next identity: a performance artist. Audience becomes props, stage becomes performer, X becomes Who? Superhero X and the cast of Self-ish come to Moment's Notice to ask the audience Who are You? and what follows is... who knows, it's improv!
Find out more at www.GrayPerforms.com.
Cathie Caraker is an independent dance artist and teacher who has been developing her approach to movement research, improvisation and performance for donkey's years. Her performance work has been presented at theaters including Dance Theater Workshop, Judson Church and Danspace at St Mark's in NYC, Nestheaters in Amsterdam and CounterPULSE in San Francisco. She has also taught at institutes across Europe, North and South America. She currently lives in San Francisco, where she is a frequent collaborator with Katarina Eriksson, Rosemary Hannon and other local luminaries.
Kim Criswell performs improvised physical theater. Her performances often concern the poignant absurdity of being human, poking fun at habits of the mind (especially her own.) Kim occasionally leads workshops in the Bay Area and in Singapore, and she co-produces Moment’s Notice. Her website is www.awarenessarts.com.
This being Moment's Notice, a show all about experimental, wildly creative improvisation, we'll probably have a few surprises, as well. Hope to see you there!
That's a new night and time, but the location is the still Western Sky Studio in the Sawtooth Building at 2525 8th St., Berkeley, CA.
Tickets are sliding scale, $8-$20, available at the door.
We have some great performers this December.
In 1999, Emily performed the solo improvisation Right this Way Into the Fire for the San Francisco Fringe Festival; her solo clown show, One or Two Things won Best of San Francisco Fringe in 2001. Her many ensemble performances over the years have included countless improvisational shows and Heaven’s Radio, with Shinichi lova-Koga’s inkBoat, in 2003. She is a graduate of the Dell Arte School of Physical Theater and has studied, practiced, and taught Action Theater.
Emily retired from theater eight years ago. This performance marks an unexpected return and a coming home.
 |
| Katarina Eriksson |
Katarina Eriksson has been involved with improvisational dance since 1989, collaborating with Julyen Hamilton, Ray Chung, Cathie Caraker and others, teaching in Europe and the US, and co-curating Moments Notice, which she co-founded.
Recent performance endeavors include: Artist in Residency at CounterPULSE, touring in Sweden and Germany with improvising folk dance troupe Hoppalappa Postfolki Tanziteatteri, directing multi-disciplinary performances at Earthdance, Massachusetts and Movement Research at Judson Church, New York, and co-creating the site-specific performance piece A Perfectly Safe Hideout in Beirut, Lebanon.
For this show, she’s performing with Shree Shyam Das who she had the pleasure to work with in the E/merge Festival in Massachusetts a couple of years ago. They think of their piece as an audio-visual contact duet and calls it: Flying Bones.
 |
| Shree Shyam Das |
Shree Shyam Das is a percussionist, bassist, and drummer who has worked with the San Francisco Mime Troupe, world-music pioneer Jai Uttal, beatbox/loop phenom Kid Beyond, the New Pickle Circus, Polish reggae band Village of Peace, Indian hip-pop diva Shakti, and world-renowned tabla artist Suphala, among others. His music is on the web at www.thatshyamguy.bandcamp.com and
 |
| Gray as Superhero X |
Fresh from recent shows in Santa Fe and New York, Gray’s Superhero X continues her search for Who She Is by trying on her next identity: a performance artist. Audience becomes props, stage becomes performer, X becomes Who? Superhero X and the cast of Self-ish come to Moment's Notice to ask the audience Who are You? and what follows is... who knows, it's improv!
Find out more at www.GrayPerforms.com.
Cathie Caraker is an independent dance artist and teacher who has been developing her approach to movement research, improvisation and performance for donkey's years. Her performance work has been presented at theaters including Dance Theater Workshop, Judson Church and Danspace at St Mark's in NYC, Nestheaters in Amsterdam and CounterPULSE in San Francisco. She has also taught at institutes across Europe, North and South America. She currently lives in San Francisco, where she is a frequent collaborator with Katarina Eriksson, Rosemary Hannon and other local luminaries.
Kim Criswell performs improvised physical theater. Her performances often concern the poignant absurdity of being human, poking fun at habits of the mind (especially her own.) Kim occasionally leads workshops in the Bay Area and in Singapore, and she co-produces Moment’s Notice. Her website is www.awarenessarts.com.
This being Moment's Notice, a show all about experimental, wildly creative improvisation, we'll probably have a few surprises, as well. Hope to see you there!
11.24.2011
Save the date: we're doing a show on Sunday, Dec. 18th
Moment's Notice is back - with a new night & time:
As always, Moment's Notice will feature a variety of improvised performances, each lasting around 10-15 minutes. December's performers include:
SUNDAY, December 18th
7pm
Western Sky Studio
2525 8th St., Berkeley, CA
Sliding Scale: $8-$20 (Tickets will be available at the door on a pay what you will basis.)
As always, Moment's Notice will feature a variety of improvised performances, each lasting around 10-15 minutes. December's performers include:
- Katarina Eriksson & Shree Shyam Das (dance & music)
- Gray (theater)
- Emily Fox (theater)
- Kim Criswell (theater)
- Cathie Caraker (dance)
8.19.2011
Summer Time!
Moment's Notice is on summer break. Our next show will probably be in October. If you're looking for an improv show this weekend, though, there's an Action Theater performance in Pt. Reyes. All of the performers (including me!) have performed many times over many years at Moment's Notice.
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