4.06.2015

Who's Who at the April 19 MoNo

Join us at Western Sky Studio (2525 8th St., Berkeley, CA) at 7PM on Sunday, April 19 (sliding scale tix $8-$20 at the door) to see:

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Meg Anderson (www.kineticdust.com) is a multidisciplinary artist who combines original dance and music compositions. Her work draws from an eclectic training in classical choral music, African drumming, physical theater and dance. A recent transplant from Chicago, she is honored to be making work among the brilliant and wacky artists of the Bay Area. Tonight’s performance will most likely be groovy and hip-hoppy and modern and expressive and wild. The theme: The humor of trying to capture identity—riffing off of Alan Watts’s idea that we are all just God playing hide and seek with itself.




Krista DeNio (www.kristadenio.com) is an interdisciplinary choreographer, director, performer, writer and educator, committed to developing new forms of performance work and evolving interdisciplinary thinking and creation between the fields of dance and theater, among many others. Recently a lecturer with UC Berkeley's Theater, Dance and Performance Studies, Krista teaches Contact Improvisation throughout the Bay Area, is a member of the International Interdisciplinary Artists Consortium, a founder/curator/co-producer of the E|MERGE Interdisciplinary Collaborative Residency (2010-14), and former executive artistic director of Earthdance (2009-13). She received her MFA in Theater: Contemporary Performance from Naropa University.


Katarina Eriksson has been involved with improvisational dance since 1989, collaborating with artists, such as Julyen Hamilton, Ray Chung, Cathie Caraker, and as a member and co-founder of Swedish improvisation ensemble Floke. She teaches Contact Improvisation and other improvisational forms in Europe and the US. Katarina co-founded Moment’s Notice in the year 2000, and she has co-curated it ever since. Find our more at: 




Rosemary Hannon (www.rosemaryhannon.com) is a dancer who makes performances about fear, femininity, perseverance, time, old stories, ordinary/enactive perception, and bodies. She creates contexts/constraints to investigate real feelings during entertainments. And she is co-producer and co-curator of Moment’s Notice.
 

Julie Oak’s mother shipped her off to mime camp when she was 16. She’s been off and running with movement-theater ever since—from street theater to serious boogying to creating her own shows. Julie brings life experience to the stage, improvising in the moment, playing characters, or writing original scripts. As a  teacher, Julie originated “RealPlay” transformative expression and improv art—  leading her own private classes and guest teaching for festivals, universities and private groups for over twenty years. She is based in Santa Cruz, CA. More info is at www.RealPlayis.Us.




Miriam Wolodarski directs, performs, and teaches (improvisation, contact, composition, and physical theater) in the SF Bay Area and beyond. She holds an MFA in Contemporary Performance from Naropa University, a BS in Political Science from Uppsala Universitet, and a banana in her left hand. She believes in dance and performance as a contemplative practice for both creator and observer. She makes her own work and dancing for Scott Wells & Dancers. For more, see www.senseobject.com.



3.03.2015

A new year, a new MoNo Show!

Hooray:  The next Moment's Notice show will be on Sunday evening, April 19, 2015 at 7:00 PM, at our usual spot (Western Sky Studio in Berkeley, CA).

We're currently selecting performers. We'll let you know more once the line-up is set.

Save the date!

Hooray!

And:

IF you are an improviser who wants to perform in the upcoming Moment's Notice show, and IF you've attended our shows before (so you're already familiar with how it all works), THEN you are welcome to email momentsnoticeinfo (at) gmail  (dot) com as soon as possible. Here's what we need in order to consider you for the April 19 show:
  • your name and the names of anyone who'll perform with you
  • a brief, general description of what you'll be doing (dance, theater, music... )
  • a link to a website where we can find out more about you
  • a photo to use on this blog
  • a very short bio (unless there's something we can easily lift from your website)


Hooray again!

See you on April 19!



4.07.2014

Our Show on April 20

The next Moment's Notice show is almost here! Here's the 411:

Sunday, April 20, 2014 at 7:00 pm
Western Sky Studio
2525 8th St., Berkeley, CA

Tickets: $8-$20, sliding scale

This show will feature (drumroll, please):

Andy Schmeder - theater
Cheryl Leonard - music
Claire Peaslee - theater
Katarina Eriksson, Ronja Ver and Rosemary Hannon - dance
...and...most likely...a surprise guest (or two or three...)

Here's a little info about our amazing performers:


Andy Schmeder
Andy Schmeder is a performance artist who co-curates, produces and sometimes performs at Foundry Nights. Here's a link to one of his performances there: http://vimeo.com/25678849. By day, Andy is vice president/technology at Enchroma, Inc.

Cheryl Leonard
Cheryl Leonard is a composer, performer, improviser and instrument builder. Over the last decade she has focused on investigating sounds, structures, and objects from the natural world. Leonard’s works cultivate stones, leaves, wood, water, sand, shells, feathers, and bones as musical instruments in compositions that reveal the unique voices hidden within these materials. Her music has been performed worldwide and featured in several television and video documentaries. She has received grants from ASCAP, the National Science Foundation’s Antarctic Artists and Writers Program, American Composers Forum and Meet the Composer, and awarded residencies at Djerassi, Oberpfälzer Künstlerhaus, Villa Montalvo and Engine 27. Find our more at her website: www.allwaysnorth.com

Claire Peaslee

Claire Peaslee lives in greater Point Reyes and has regular conversations with birds and shrubs and the weather. She considers Action Theater, taught by Ruth Zaporah, a sort of life practice: "improvisation of presence"— isn't that the essence of a fun existence? Occasionally heard on public radio, or read in the pages of Bay Nature magazine, or discovered leading nature-laughter excursions in her greater back yard, Claire invites you to correspond via www.clairepeaslee.net.

Katarina Eriksson

Katarina Eriksson has been involved in improvisational dance since 1989, collaborating with artists such as Julyen Hamilton, Cathie Caraker, and Karen Nelson. She teaches Contact Improvisation and other improvisational work in Europe and the US.  Katarina's traditional dance background includes the Gothenburg State Theater and Opera. She produces the performance series Moment's Notice in Berkeley, which she co-founded in 2000. Her latest performance endeavors are: touring with Hoppalappa Postfolki Tanziteatteri in Sweden and Germany, dancing in a site-specific piece in Beirut, and directing inter-disciplinary performances in Massachusetts and New York.


Rosemary Hannon
Rosemary Hannon  is a performer, choreographer and dance teacher with unconditional love for dogs and cheese.  Rosemary has been teaching contact improvisation since 2004 and dance since 1996 in various venues and institutions. Her performance career started in 1982 with San Francisco Ballet Company (The Nutcracker) and continued later with modern and post-modern dance engagement. More is at www.nonodance.com/company/rosemary-hannon/

 
Ronja Ver has been living, loving, exploring, teaching and performing Contact Improvisation for almost 20 years. She is a dancer and dance maker, artist, activist, anarchist and teacher, a native of Finland, currently making work in the Bay Area. Her choreography has been presented by the American Dance Festival, Movement Research at the Judson Church, Danspace Project, Zodiak – Centre for New Dance, Aleksanterin Teatteri, among others. Former posts include the National Theatre of Finland, Beyond Improvisation Collective, and Riitta Vainio Dance Company. Since 2001 she has created several full evening works for both theater and found spaces. She has danced and collaborated in works by Nancy Stark Smith and Mike Vargas, Deborah Hay, Jaana Turunen, Keith Hennessy, David Hurwith, and was proud to perform in Steve Paxton’s DVD Material for the Spine. She is currently performing with Scott Wells and Dancers and Avy K Productions in San Francisco. She is a co-founder of the Finnish CI festival Skiing On Skin, and holds an MFA in Dance from Hollins University. Her website is www.ronjaver.net.

Bonus: Here's a link to Rosemary Hannon, Ronja Ver and Cathy Caraker at a past Moment's Notice show!  www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRxiM6vZmZ0

Hope to see you on April 20! 

2.24.2014

Save the date!

Our next Moment's Notice show is on Sunday evening, April 20. We'll announce the line-up soon, but in the meantime: save the date!

As usual, the show will be at Western Sky Studio in Berkeley. More to come!

--Katarina, Rosemary & Kim

10.27.2013

Announcing Our MoNo-Nov lineup!



Here's the current lineup for our November 10 show:

Meg Anderson & friends - music
Daniel Bear Davis, Jote Mahern, Leaf Tine, & Meg Anderson - dance & music
Owen Walker - theater
and, of course, our usual in-the-moment surprises!

The usual logistics apply:
 Western Sky Studio
2525 8th Street, Berkeley, CA
7:00 p.m.  (since it's a Sunday)
$8-$20 sliding-scale tickets available at the door

We hope to see you there!!!!
         —Katarina, Rosemary & Kim

10.11.2013

Sssshhh!

Keep this between us. Our little secret. It's not quite certain yet, but...

It looks like we'll be having a Moment's Notice in mid-November. 

That's November, 2013, to be specific. In which case, we'll be seeing you soon again!

4.09.2013

Details about our April 14 show


Bios, April 14:


Briony Greenhill is a British singer specializing in improvisation, community and play. She studied music at the London Guildhall, with Bobby McFerrin, Rhiannon, David Eskenazy, Charwell Dutiro and Atul Upadhye in India. She lives in Oakland, California. Briony has been performing since she was eleven years old, both solo and in a number of different ensembles, from the rickety stage of the Beccles Public hall to the ICA in London's Pall Mall (just up the road from Buckingham Palace). She's been holding community and corporate singing workshops, and singing in a ceremonial context, for over six years. She co-founded the London Vocal Improv Collective in 2011 and now she is exploring the possibility of something similar in the San Francisco Bay Area. www.brionygreenhill.com



Cathie Caraker invites you to check out this breathtaking footage from one of Henry Kaiser's Antarctic diving expeditions - accompanied by Henry on guitar. She is excited that Henry is returning to perform with her at MoNo again and this time Vitali Kononov will be joining as well. Woot!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=d7gkPLTnAQs
 

Claire Peaslee

Cloud light. Bird migration. Purple-topped turnips. Krill. Ziggy energy. These are a few things Claire associates with spring. She thought you might need to know this up front, since you are about to learn more about her than she knows herself. What else. Life practice in Action Theater, taught by Ruth Zaporah and Owen Walker. Just finished a four-day workshop here, sweat barely dry. Writer, naturalist, radio person, blah blah blah. Lives in Point Reyes Station, so grateful to be here. 



Katarina Eriksson has been involved in improvisational dance since 1989, collaborating with artists such as Julyen Hamilton, Cathie Caraker, and Karen Nelson. She teaches Contact Improvisation and other improvisational work in Europe and the US.  Katarina's traditional dance background includes the Gothenburg State Theater and Opera. She produces the performance series Moment's Notice in Berkeley, which she co-founded in 2000. Her latest performance endeavors are: touring with Hoppalappa Postfolki Tanziteatteri in Sweden and Germany, dancing in a site-specific piece in Beirut, and directing inter-disciplinary performances in Massachusetts and New York.

www.momentsnoticeimprov.blogspot.com ("about moment's notice")






Stuart Phillips says: "Improvisational Contact Dance Performance gives me a platform to discover my true nature, within each fleeting moment, a gift to everyone."  www.stulip6.wix.com/stulips

Kerstin Stuart
asks: "Where is that I will meet both you and myself for this moment in time and where will we go???"




Kim Criswell performs improvised, sense-based physical theater. Her background is steeped in Action Theater, but she will not be doing Action Theater. In fact, she may not even be performing. This time, she's interested in un-performing, curious about just how simple things can be...

3.25.2013

The Vital Statistics

Here's the who-what-when-where-&-how-much for our next Moment's Notice show. (We'll let you decide why.)


 
April 14, 2013
Showtime: 7:00 pm        Tickets:  $8-20
Western Sky Studio 
2525 8th Street, Berkeley, CA


Cathie Caraker, Vitali Kononov and Henry Kaiser - dance  & music
Kim Criswell - theater 
Briony Greenhill - music
Rosemary Hannon and Katarina Eriksson- dance
Claire Peaslee - theater
Stuart Phillips and Kerstin Stuart - dance

And, most likely, surprises!

Tickets available at door. 

2.06.2013

We're back!

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!

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
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.)





Rebecca Bryant
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
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.



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!

Our next Moment's Notice show is on

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

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
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!

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:

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)
More details will be posted soon.
 

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. 




6.10.2011

Here's who's performing at our June 18th show (8pm @ Western Sky Studio, 2525 8th St., Berkeley, CA):

Cathie Caraker & Henry Kaiser: dance & music 
Katarina Eriksson & Matt Shyka: dance 
Cameron Kelly: dance 
Shay Nichols: music 
Owen Walker: theater 


photo by Frank Revi
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. 


Henry Kaiser (according to Wikipedia) is an American guitarist and composer. Recording and performing prolifically in many styles of music, Kaiser is a fixture on the San Francisco Bay Area music scene. He is considered a member of the "first generation" of American free improvisers. Seriously: it's an honor to have Henry perform in an intimate venue like Moment's Notice. Check out the Wikipedia bio, or better yet, Google him!


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 Hoppalappa, and directing multi-disciplinary performances at Earthdance, Massachusetts and Movement Research at Judson Church, New York. In July, she'll be leading a workshop on "Accidental Excellence" at the annual WCCIRF (West Coast Contact Improv Research Forum.)


Cameron Kelly is interested in authentic humor and low-grade embarrassment. She's also curious about borrowing language from traditional Chinese medicine (the five elements, organ meridians, and heaven and earth, for example) to think about improvised movement practice and peformance. Infusing imagination and fantasy into sensation-based impulses, a layered and sometimes contradictory experience of "now" emerges.


Owen Walker is an actor who improvises. He teaches and performs in the Bay Area and nationally. His work draws heavily from Action Theater, a performance practice which integrates movement, voice and language. Owen uses physical improvisation to explore the terrain of human experience, from the mystical to the mundane, and from the animal to the urbane. He enters the performance space empty, without any preconceived structure or plan, and then builds a world based on the emerging action.
www.ActionTheaterBayArea.com



 Shay Nichols, a singer and vocal improviser from the Bay area, loves creating music for the moment. Inspired by nature and vocal traditions around the world, she sings in imaginary languages that are a bridge from the primal to the sublime. Shay completed the CIIS Voice/Sound Healing certificate program in 2007 and is certified as a Sound Practitioner through the Open Ear Center. Her work combines the freedom of improvisation with the wisdom of sound healing traditions to encourage well being and transformation. She has been leading workshops and teaching privately since 2007. 

So, come to our show!

Saturday, June 18, 8:00 pm.

Tickets sliding scale at door: $8-15

Western Sky Studio, 2525 8th Street (@Dwight), in Berkeley.



5.22.2011

June will be a very good month!

Our next Moment's Notice is coming up:

Saturday, June 18, 2011, 8:00 p.m.
$8 - $15 (Sliding scale.)

Featuring:  Cammie Kelly ... Cathie Caraker ... Henry Kaiser ... Owen Walker ... Shay Nichols ... and more.  We'll update this site with more detail soon.  

But first: 

Do you remember past Moment's Notice shows when our co-curators/co-producers Katarina Eriksson & Rosemary Hannon danced joyously to David Bowie music? Wasn't it fun? Didn't you want to see MORE, a LOT more?  Good, because the first weekend in June, you can: 


3.06.2011

Moment's Notice dance segment

Here's a delicious, bite-sized slice of the February Moment's Notice show!

Dance: Cathie Caraker, Rosemary Hannon, Ronja Ver
Music: Peter Whitehead
'Goldilocks' improvisation score created by Katarina Eriksson
Performed 26 February, 2011 at Moment's Notice, Western Sky Studio, Berkeley CA



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRxiM6vZmZ0&feature=player_embedded

(Click over to YouTube to see a larger, full-screen version.)

1.30.2011

If it's February, it must be time for Moment's Notice


Happy Year of the Rabbit! We're celebrating with a brand new Moment's Notice show.


Moment's Notice
Saturday, February 26, 2011
8:00 pm

Western Sky Studio
2525 8th St., Berkeley, CA

$8-$15 sliding scale

featuring:

Claire Peaslee : theater
Hana Lee Erdman : dance
Philip Gelb : music
Cathie Caraker, Kristen Greco, Rosemary Hannon, Ronja Ver &Vitali Kononov: dance
Wolves at the Door (Ben Yates & Michael Davenport) : theater

and Katarina Eriksson as MC.

As always with Moment's Notice, there may also be surprise special guests!


Claire Peaslee lives in greater Point Reyes and has regular conversations with birds and shrubs and the weather. She considers Action Theater, taught by Ruth Zaporah, a sort of life practice: improvisation of presence, indeed! Isn't that the essence of a fun existence? With her rather ridiculous range of activities in nature-laughter, Claire invites you to keep in touch via the worldwide web -- at clairepeaslee.net.
Claire invites fellow improvisers to join her in Berkeley on April 8-10 in a workshop taught by Action Theater great Ruth Zaporah. Learn more here.




Philip Gelb is a shakuhachi player who teaches and performs all over the United States, Japan, Europe and Canada at major festivals and venues as well as alternative art spaces, galleries and other venues. He has an active freelance career as an improvisor and runs one of the largest shakuhachi teaching organizations outside of Japan!

Philip has collaborated with choreographers, composers and ensembles too numerous to mention; to find out more (prepare to be impressed) visit www.philipgelb.com




Wolves at the Door (Ben Yates & Michael Davenport) improvise dramatic scenes with comedic elements. Their work is based on creating strong character and relationships, often with an absurdist twist. You can see videos Wolves at the Door at magicjestertheater.com







Cathie Caraker, a native San Franciscan who's spent most of her adult dancing life in Amsterdam and western MA, has been involved with Contact Improvisation for almost 30 years and still considers herself a beginner.

Katarina Eriksson is co-founder and co-curator of Moment's Notice, teaches Contact Improvisation (currently at CounterPULSE, San Francisco), and has lately taken an interest in directing improv-based multi-disciplinary performances.

Kristen Greco loves playing in the snow, walking on the beach, making dances, and being quiet.

Vitali Kononov is a movement artist, bodyworker and somatic movement educator, working with improvisation as a performance discipline, therapeutic tool and a contemplative practice.

Ronja Ver is a working artist. http://soluja.blogspot.com