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.)
3.06.2011
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 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.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.
Philip has collaborated with choreographers, composers and ensembles too numerous to mention; to find out more (prepare to be impressed) visit www.philipgelb.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
10.17.2010
Moment's Notice is back for one show this season:
Saturday, November 13
8pm
$8-15 sliding scale
Western Sky Studio
2525 8th St., Berkeley, CA 94710
featuring:
Gray de Young & Andy Water Schmeder : theater
Jon Raskin, Gino Robair, Meghan Ballog, & Tania Llambelis : music & dance
Katarina Eriksson & Rosemary Hannon : dance
Lilli & Henry Misner : theater & music
Owen Walker : theater
Here's a hint of what you'll see:
Gray de Young is just back from New Mexico, where she performed a one-woman show, Burst! For Moment's Notice, she and Andy Water Schmeder will do "Full Disclosure(tm) brand improv", which she describes as "a quick little improv-ditty where we moment-to-moment take no prisoners, not even (and especially not) ourselves. Info about Gray, including videos of past performances, are at http://www.grayperforms.com/
Jon Raskin returns to Moment's Notice for a musical duet with Gino Robair. Jon is a founding member of Rova Saxaphone Quartet and his accomplishments are too great to list -- check out http://www.jonraskin.com/ for details. Every time Jon performs at Moment's Notice, everyone is happy!
Gino Robair owns Rastascan Records and is an associate editor for Electronic Musician magazine. Besides collaborating with Jon in the Rova Saxaphone Quartet and the Jon Raskin Quartent, he has performed and/or recorded with Anthony Braxton, Tom Waits, John Butcher, LaDonna Smith, Otomo Yoshihide, Eugene Chadbourne, John Zorn, Nina Hagen, Thinking Fellers Union Local 282, Myra Melford, The Club Foot Orchestra, and he is a founding member of the Splatter Trio. Read more about him & find videos here: http://www.bayimproviser.com/
Nuyorican performer Tania Llambelis lives in Oakland, CA and teaches at ASCEND School. She enjoys clowning, multi-lingual vocal improvisation, as well as dancing tango and samba. Her curiosity about the intersection between dance and theatre began during her time as an undergraduate at Wesleyan University. Recent venues where Ms. Llambelis has performed include: Fresno Art Museum, Oakland Museum of California, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and SomArts Cultural Center.
Katarina Eriksson & Rosemary Hannon will perform another of their experiments towards their envisioned improvisation-based "dansical". They call tonight's duet I'm Only Dancing 4. Rosemary co-produces Moment's Notice, teaches Contact improvisation and performs with Nono Dance (http://www.artsomatic.org/nono/company/rosemary-hannon). Katarina co-founded Moment's Notice way back in 2000. Her latest performance endeavours include touring with Hoppalappa Postfolki Tanziteatteri in Sweden and Germany, and directing a multi-disciplinary improv ensemble piece at Earthdance, Massachusetts.
Lilli Misner has studied clowning, dance, theatre and improvisation and creates solo and ensemble works combining her interests in creative writing, music making, movement, dance and theatre. Some of these pieces have been performed in and around San Francisco. Other works, she says, "are still yet to be born!" Lilli is "most happy while digging her hands in soil, watching flowers grow and grow, writing, playing with children, dancing, jumping, banging on pots and pans, making art with others, and imagining Great Things."
Kim Criswell, Moment's Notice's other co-curator and co-producer, will MC. Her website is www.awarenessarts.com
See you at Western Sky!
PS: You're always welcome to comment below about how you much you've enjoyed any of these performers at past shows!
8pm
$8-15 sliding scale
Western Sky Studio
2525 8th St., Berkeley, CA 94710
featuring:
Gray de Young & Andy Water Schmeder : theater
Jon Raskin, Gino Robair, Meghan Ballog, & Tania Llambelis : music & dance
Katarina Eriksson & Rosemary Hannon : dance
Lilli & Henry Misner : theater & music
Owen Walker : theater
Here's a hint of what you'll see:
Gray de Young is just back from New Mexico, where she performed a one-woman show, Burst! For Moment's Notice, she and Andy Water Schmeder will do "Full Disclosure(tm) brand improv", which she describes as "a quick little improv-ditty where we moment-to-moment take no prisoners, not even (and especially not) ourselves. Info about Gray, including videos of past performances, are at http://www.grayperforms.com/
Jon Raskin returns to Moment's Notice for a musical duet with Gino Robair. Jon is a founding member of Rova Saxaphone Quartet and his accomplishments are too great to list -- check out http://www.jonraskin.com/ for details. Every time Jon performs at Moment's Notice, everyone is happy!
Gino Robair owns Rastascan Records and is an associate editor for Electronic Musician magazine. Besides collaborating with Jon in the Rova Saxaphone Quartet and the Jon Raskin Quartent, he has performed and/or recorded with Anthony Braxton, Tom Waits, John Butcher, LaDonna Smith, Otomo Yoshihide, Eugene Chadbourne, John Zorn, Nina Hagen, Thinking Fellers Union Local 282, Myra Melford, The Club Foot Orchestra, and he is a founding member of the Splatter Trio. Read more about him & find videos here: http://www.bayimproviser.com/
Nuyorican performer Tania Llambelis lives in Oakland, CA and teaches at ASCEND School. She enjoys clowning, multi-lingual vocal improvisation, as well as dancing tango and samba. Her curiosity about the intersection between dance and theatre began during her time as an undergraduate at Wesleyan University. Recent venues where Ms. Llambelis has performed include: Fresno Art Museum, Oakland Museum of California, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and SomArts Cultural Center.
Katarina Eriksson & Rosemary Hannon will perform another of their experiments towards their envisioned improvisation-based "dansical". They call tonight's duet I'm Only Dancing 4. Rosemary co-produces Moment's Notice, teaches Contact improvisation and performs with Nono Dance (http://www.artsomatic.org/nono/company/rosemary-hannon). Katarina co-founded Moment's Notice way back in 2000. Her latest performance endeavours include touring with Hoppalappa Postfolki Tanziteatteri in Sweden and Germany, and directing a multi-disciplinary improv ensemble piece at Earthdance, Massachusetts.
Lilli Misner has studied clowning, dance, theatre and improvisation and creates solo and ensemble works combining her interests in creative writing, music making, movement, dance and theatre. Some of these pieces have been performed in and around San Francisco. Other works, she says, "are still yet to be born!" Lilli is "most happy while digging her hands in soil, watching flowers grow and grow, writing, playing with children, dancing, jumping, banging on pots and pans, making art with others, and imagining Great Things."
Henry Misner began exploring music at the age 16 with the electric guitar and has not stopped ever since. Eventually learning bass, drums and keyboards, he records and performs under the moniker Toba, a blend of psychadelic rock and melodic electronica with vocals. He has performed with bands such as Creatura, Misner and Smith, and is currently playing bass with Magic Leaves. One of his newest ventures is composing music for different visual media. His music can be heard at reverbnation.com/#!/tobamusic.
Owen Walker returns to Moment's Notice with another Action Theater solo. Last time he joined us, this improv genius managed to weave fatherhood, domesticity, a squirrel, life, death, and things that can/cannot be put off into a tight funny story. Owen is a superb teacher too btw. His web site is:
www.actiontheaterbayarea.com
Kim Criswell, Moment's Notice's other co-curator and co-producer, will MC. Her website is www.awarenessarts.com
See you at Western Sky!
PS: You're always welcome to comment below about how you much you've enjoyed any of these performers at past shows!
7.01.2010
Summer vacation
It's summertime, and Moment's Notice is taking a break. We'll be back in the fall, after improvising in far off places. Wishing you all a glorious season of sun.
5.15.2010
Saturda
y, June 5, 2010
8:00 p.m.
Western Sky Studio
2525 8th St.
Berkeley, CA 94710
$8 - $15 sliding scale admission, tickets available at the door.
Performances by:
Cathie Caraker : dance
Katarina Eriksson : dance
Imaginary Friends (Abhay Ghiara, Kim Criswell, Krista Gullickson) : theater
Valerie Smith & Stuart Phillips : dance
Titter (Aurora Josephson, Tony Dryer, Jacob Felix Heule, Kanko Nishi) : music
Tumbleheart (Evan Specter, Jonathan Walker, George Carver) : theater
...And probably a surprise or two...
Here's a little more detail:
Cathie Caraker is an international dance artist and teacher. Her solo performance work has been presented in NYC by Dance Theater Workshop, Danspace at St. Mark's Church, Movement Research at the Judson Church, University Settlement House and the New York Improvisation Festival, and elsewhere in N. America, Europe, Argentina and Brazil. She was recently Artist-in-Residence at CounterPULSE in San Francisco, where she premiered a new work in collaboration with Katarina Eriksson. (Photo by Frank Revi.)
Katarina Eriks
son, back again from Sweden and from the EarthDance E/merge Festival, will be dancing. Katarina coproduces and is cofounder of Moment's Notice. She also teaches dance and improvisation, tours with Hoppalappa Postfolki Tanziteatteri in Sweden, and performed at the SF Fringe Festival with Rowena Richie's LandEscape, a dance theater piece based on Michael Pollan’s texts.
Katarina and Cathie never fail to mesmerize. Often, they collaborate (like when they teamed up for a residency at CounterPulse to produce ANIMoid.) This time, they're each dancing solo... unless another inspiration strikes. In any case, this is going to be good!
Imaginary Friends (Kim Criswell, Abhay Ghiara & Krista Gullickson) has been working together as a physical theater improv trio for over ten years, mostly experimenting in its own private Imaginary Friends Improv Lab. Someone once said they were like "Butoh meets the Marx Brothers." However, Imaginary Friends performs neither Butoh nor vaudevillian comedy. They just like madcap minimalism.
Valerie Smith & Stuart Phillips will perform "Love As Is". This duet bridges the gap between thinking and acting, responding immediately to chosen stimuli in an out of control matter to resolve inner issues through feminine release, the outcome being more life, resolve and questions answered with more evolved vibrancy and refreshing charge.
Stuart Phillips
has been pruning and performing improvisation for 28 years and contact improv for 22 years, investigating everything real through contact mode.
Val Smith is dance artist who engages with movement education, performance, and somatic research. Her performance work explores collaboration, creative practice, and composition. Inspired by the intrinsic social politics of Contact Improvisation, Val is currently working with the relational experience of self in dance; how we come to know and identify with ‘self’ and ‘other’, and how does language along with our assumptions and beliefs affect our dance interactions? Val moved to Eugene, Oregon from New Zealand in 2008 and founded Humdance, a proposition for somatic research, practice and performance.
Titter is a music ensemble featuring Tony Dryer (double bass), Jacob Felix Heule (drums), Kanko Nishi (Koto), and Aurora Josephson (voice).
Evan Specter
, Jonathan Walker and George Carver are founding members of Tumbleheart, a 3 year old ensemble that transforms recent, memorable life experiences into story, in real-time. They compose spontaneous memoir-scapes, co-written in the moment with one or more members of the ensemble. The memoirs emerge and take shape (in physical movement, with spoken or sung narrative) on the stage in a manner that reveals the deep streams of meaning and emotion that lay within everyday experiences. Tumbleheart’s work is based on ten years studying Motion Theater with the pioneers of this style of theater-making, Nina Wise and Corey Fischer. For more about Motion Theater, visit ninawise.com. Check out www.Tumbleheart.org for more about Evan, Jonathan and George.
And... of course, it's improv, and it's Moment's Notice, so there are always surprises.
See you there!
y, June 5, 20108:00 p.m.
Western Sky Studio
2525 8th St.
Berkeley, CA 94710
$8 - $15 sliding scale admission, tickets available at the door.
Performances by:
Cathie Caraker : dance
Katarina Eriksson : dance
Imaginary Friends (Abhay Ghiara, Kim Criswell, Krista Gullickson) : theater
Valerie Smith & Stuart Phillips : dance
Titter (Aurora Josephson, Tony Dryer, Jacob Felix Heule, Kanko Nishi) : music
Tumbleheart (Evan Specter, Jonathan Walker, George Carver) : theater
...And probably a surprise or two...
Here's a little more detail:
Cathie Caraker is an international dance artist and teacher. Her solo performance work has been presented in NYC by Dance Theater Workshop, Danspace at St. Mark's Church, Movement Research at the Judson Church, University Settlement House and the New York Improvisation Festival, and elsewhere in N. America, Europe, Argentina and Brazil. She was recently Artist-in-Residence at CounterPULSE in San Francisco, where she premiered a new work in collaboration with Katarina Eriksson. (Photo by Frank Revi.)Katarina Eriks
son, back again from Sweden and from the EarthDance E/merge Festival, will be dancing. Katarina coproduces and is cofounder of Moment's Notice. She also teaches dance and improvisation, tours with Hoppalappa Postfolki Tanziteatteri in Sweden, and performed at the SF Fringe Festival with Rowena Richie's LandEscape, a dance theater piece based on Michael Pollan’s texts.Katarina and Cathie never fail to mesmerize. Often, they collaborate (like when they teamed up for a residency at CounterPulse to produce ANIMoid.) This time, they're each dancing solo... unless another inspiration strikes. In any case, this is going to be good!
Imaginary Friends (Kim Criswell, Abhay Ghiara & Krista Gullickson) has been working together as a physical theater improv trio for over ten years, mostly experimenting in its own private Imaginary Friends Improv Lab. Someone once said they were like "Butoh meets the Marx Brothers." However, Imaginary Friends performs neither Butoh nor vaudevillian comedy. They just like madcap minimalism.
Valerie Smith & Stuart Phillips will perform "Love As Is". This duet bridges the gap between thinking and acting, responding immediately to chosen stimuli in an out of control matter to resolve inner issues through feminine release, the outcome being more life, resolve and questions answered with more evolved vibrancy and refreshing charge.
Stuart Phillips
has been pruning and performing improvisation for 28 years and contact improv for 22 years, investigating everything real through contact mode. Val Smith is dance artist who engages with movement education, performance, and somatic research. Her performance work explores collaboration, creative practice, and composition. Inspired by the intrinsic social politics of Contact Improvisation, Val is currently working with the relational experience of self in dance; how we come to know and identify with ‘self’ and ‘other’, and how does language along with our assumptions and beliefs affect our dance interactions? Val moved to Eugene, Oregon from New Zealand in 2008 and founded Humdance, a proposition for somatic research, practice and performance.
Titter is a music ensemble featuring Tony Dryer (double bass), Jacob Felix Heule (drums), Kanko Nishi (Koto), and Aurora Josephson (voice).
Evan Specter
, Jonathan Walker and George Carver are founding members of Tumbleheart, a 3 year old ensemble that transforms recent, memorable life experiences into story, in real-time. They compose spontaneous memoir-scapes, co-written in the moment with one or more members of the ensemble. The memoirs emerge and take shape (in physical movement, with spoken or sung narrative) on the stage in a manner that reveals the deep streams of meaning and emotion that lay within everyday experiences. Tumbleheart’s work is based on ten years studying Motion Theater with the pioneers of this style of theater-making, Nina Wise and Corey Fischer. For more about Motion Theater, visit ninawise.com. Check out www.Tumbleheart.org for more about Evan, Jonathan and George.And... of course, it's improv, and it's Moment's Notice, so there are always surprises.
See you there!
4.25.2010
Moment's Notice returns!
Saturday, June 5, 2010
8:00 p.m.
Western Sky Studio
2525 8th St.
Berkeley, CA 94710
$8 - $15 sliding scale admission
Performances by:
Aurora Josephson & friends : music
Cathie Caraker : dance
Evan Specter & friends : theater
Katarina Eriksson : dance
Eric Glick Rieman : music
Sten Rudstrom : theater
Valerie Smith & Stuart Phillips : dance
...And perhaps a surprise or two...
Here's a little more detail:
(May 11 update: Eric & Sten cancelled. But there's good news: Evan Specter & friends will perform Motion Theater, a form created by Nina Wise. We've also got other another musician lined up; more info to come.)
Bay Area music improv legend Eric Glick Reiman will be playing prepared rhodes piano... (Click on his name: it links to his MySpace page with YouTube video & music samples.)
Katarina Eriksson, back again from Sweden and from the EarthDance E/merge Festival, will be dancing. Katarina coproduces and is cofounder of Moment's Notice. She also teaches dance and improvisation, tours with Hoppalappa Postfolki Tanziteatteri in Sweden, and performed at the SF Fringe Festival with Rowena Richie's LandEscape, a dance theater piece based on Michael Pollan’s texts.
Cathie Caraker is an international dance artist and teacher. Her solo performance work has been presented in NYC by Dance Theater Workshop, Danspace at St. Mark's Church, Movement Research at the Judson Church, University Settlement House and the New York Improvisation Festival, and elsewhere in N. America, Europe, Argentina and Brazil. She was recently Artist-in-Residence at CounterPULSE in San Francisco, where she premiered a new work in collaboration with Katarina Eriksson. (Photo by Frank Revi.)
Katarina and Cathie never fail to mesmerize. Often, they collaborate (like when they teamed up for a residency at CounterPulse to produce ANIMoid.) This time, they're each dancing solo... unless another inspiration strikes. In any case, this is going to be good!
Also dancing for us: Valerie Smith & Stuart Phillips.
Sten Rudstrom lives in Berlin now, teaching and performing Action Theater, a form of physical theater improvisation. So, this is a rare chance to see him. His work is edgy and often exquisite. Maybe you've seen him on past visits, or when he was a Bay Area resident; before he moved to Europe, he did many solo shows, collaborated with Cassie Terman at Moment's Notice and elsewhere, and also performed with InkBoat.
And... of course, it's improv, and it's Moment's Notice, so there are always surprises.
See you there!
y, June 5, 20108:00 p.m.
Western Sky Studio
2525 8th St.
Berkeley, CA 94710
$8 - $15 sliding scale admission
Performances by:
Aurora Josephson & friends : music
Cathie Caraker : dance
Evan Specter & friends : theater
Katarina Eriksson : dance
Valerie Smith & Stuart Phillips : dance
...And perhaps a surprise or two...
Here's a little more detail:
(May 11 update: Eric & Sten cancelled. But there's good news: Evan Specter & friends will perform Motion Theater, a form created by Nina Wise. We've also got other another musician lined up; more info to come.)
Katarina Eriks
son, back again from Sweden and from the EarthDance E/merge Festival, will be dancing. Katarina coproduces and is cofounder of Moment's Notice. She also teaches dance and improvisation, tours with Hoppalappa Postfolki Tanziteatteri in Sweden, and performed at the SF Fringe Festival with Rowena Richie's LandEscape, a dance theater piece based on Michael Pollan’s texts.Cathie Caraker is an international dance artist and teacher. Her solo performance work has been presented in NYC by Dance Theater Workshop, Danspace at St. Mark's Church, Movement Research at the Judson Church, University Settlement House and the New York Improvisation Festival, and elsewhere in N. America, Europe, Argentina and Brazil. She was recently Artist-in-Residence at CounterPULSE in San Francisco, where she premiered a new work in collaboration with Katarina Eriksson. (Photo by Frank Revi.)Katarina and Cathie never fail to mesmerize. Often, they collaborate (like when they teamed up for a residency at CounterPulse to produce ANIMoid.) This time, they're each dancing solo... unless another inspiration strikes. In any case, this is going to be good!
Also dancing for us: Valerie Smith & Stuart Phillips.
And... of course, it's improv, and it's Moment's Notice, so there are always surprises.
See you there!
3.05.2010
Moment's Notice in March
March 20, 2010
Showtime: 8:00 pm
Tickets: $8-15
Western Sky Studio 2525 8th Street, Berkeley
Performers include:
Claire Peaslee - Theater
Kim Criswell - Theater
Diana Lara & Bonner Odell - Dance
Nicki Koethner & Diahna Fortuna - Dance
Rae Shao-Lan Blum - Dance
Rosemary Hannon & Vitali Kononov - Dance
Shay Nichols & Green Huse - Music
Tickets available at door.
For reservations call 510-992-6295 or email MomentsNoticeInfo (at) gmail.com
About the performers:
Claire Peasle
e is a citizen of Point Reyes and has a life practice in Action Theater. She wanders in, beholds, and converses with the living world in a field of inquiry known as nature-laughter. Her newest experiment, with kindred improvisers, involves taking instruction from the Earth -- Listening To Gaia. For this equinox Moments Notice, Claire is solo and plans nothing, thank you.
Kim Cr
iswell never does solos, because she loves collaboration. So tonight, she's doing a solo. Like Claire Peaslee, Kim is a long time Action Theater improviser. She's also a former dancer who likes Butoh, performance art, certain cirque-y clown stuff... She has a masters' degree in Transformational Art, so she hopes she can successfully (and artistically) transform herself from Moment's Notice co-producer into... well... we'll just have to find out, won't we? Her work often playfully pokes fun at the catastrophe of being human.
For Moment’s Notice, Diana will present a structured, improvised piece about our relationships with ourselves, others, space, and time. The piece was developed in collaboration with Bay Area dancer and choreographer Bonner Odell. The music is from Ariel Guzik and was edited by John Rodgers.
Rae Shao-Lan Blum will perform an experimental dance and music improvisation, with a friend wh
o will play music. Rae is the recipient of a Choreographers in Mentorship Exchange (CHIME) Grant 2008 with mentor, Simone Forti. Creating performances for stage, film and site specific locations since 1999, Blum's work spans literary, installation and performance. Blum began her early dance training in New York City in the studios of Alvin Ailey, Jose Limon and Movement Research. In addition to performing, choreographing and directing, she teaches classes and workshops in dance technique, composition and improvisation.
Free Roaming Chicks (Diahna Fortuna and Nicki Koethner) will perform Syncopated Dreams, a structured, improvised piece about relationship dynamics including spoken word and movement. Syncopated Dreams explores the dynamics integral with bisexual identity. Two dancers explore each other. They are in the moment. They respond. They react. They enable a world of possibility within any relationship.
Diahna Fortuna is founder of Fortuna Life Bodywork & Movement, teaching ways to embody cre
ative power and enrich mind-body connection. In private practice since 1994, Diahna draws on an extensive repertoire of techniques and her BA in dance. She has been performing in theater and dance since she was four years old and has been teaching Essential Motion classes & groups throughout the Bay Area since 2000. She's studied with Karen Roeper, founder of Essential Motion, since 1997 and continues to assist Karen's trainings and groups in the U.S. Diahna enjoys inspiring her clients, students, and audience members in becoming more enlivened, relaxed, and joyful in their bodies. http://fortunalife.com and http://www.essential-motion.com/
Nicki Koethn
er is a multimedia artist, Marriage and Family Therapist and Expressive Art Therapist, specializing in spirituality, creativity, sexuality, attachment, trauma and parenting. She has given Expressive Arts workshops and performances in NY, the Bay Area and in Germany. Her performance work is inspired by her practice of Body Tales and Authentic Movement. She is a passionate advocate of the Expressive Arts for healing trauma as well as celebrating our aliveness and common humanity in sustainability. She is the Executive Co-Chair of the International Expressive Arts Therapy Association and is on the Board of Body Tales. She is a bisexual modern-day mystic who is curious about how the psyche expresses itself in the here and now and loves to explore consciousness and touch others through embodied experience.
A singer
and vocal improviser from the Bay area, Shay Nichols loves creating music for the moment. Inspired by vocal traditions from around the world, she sings in imaginary languages that are a bridge from the primal to the sublime. Shay recently completed the CIIS Voice/Sound Healing certificate program 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.
Green Hus
e is a songwriter with an unforgettable voice and a warm performance style. She loves to write songs; she loves to sing them. She takes the listener on a journey through her most recent incarnations of life. Departing from an insecure innocence, traveling to deep jungles and dreams within her heart, she reaches a humble, ecstatic destination.
Showtime: 8:00 pm
Tickets: $8-15
Western Sky Studio 2525 8th Street, Berkeley
Performers include:
Claire Peaslee - Theater
Kim Criswell - Theater
Diana Lara & Bonner Odell - Dance
Nicki Koethner & Diahna Fortuna - Dance
Rae Shao-Lan Blum - Dance
Rosemary Hannon & Vitali Kononov - Dance
Shay Nichols & Green Huse - Music
Tickets available at door.
For reservations call 510-992-6295 or email MomentsNoticeInfo (at) gmail.com
About the performers:
Claire Peasle
e is a citizen of Point Reyes and has a life practice in Action Theater. She wanders in, beholds, and converses with the living world in a field of inquiry known as nature-laughter. Her newest experiment, with kindred improvisers, involves taking instruction from the Earth -- Listening To Gaia. For this equinox Moments Notice, Claire is solo and plans nothing, thank you.Kim Cr
iswell never does solos, because she loves collaboration. So tonight, she's doing a solo. Like Claire Peaslee, Kim is a long time Action Theater improviser. She's also a former dancer who likes Butoh, performance art, certain cirque-y clown stuff... She has a masters' degree in Transformational Art, so she hopes she can successfully (and artistically) transform herself from Moment's Notice co-producer into... well... we'll just have to find out, won't we? Her work often playfully pokes fun at the catastrophe of being human.Diana Lara 
is a choreographer and dancer from Honduras. She graduated from the Choreography Program of the Center for Research and Choreography at the Mexican National Institute of Fine Arts (2003) and from the Somatic Research and Participatory Arts program offered by Moving-on-Center in Oakland, California (2007). She has worked as a dancer and choreographer for contemporary dance groups in México (Caída Libre and Luna Roja) and Honduras (Danza Libre), participating in festivals in Mexico and Central America. At this time, she works as an independent artist developing projects based in the exploration of somatic elements and improvisation.
Rae Shao-Lan Blum will perform an experimental dance and music improvisation, with a friend wh
o will play music. Rae is the recipient of a Choreographers in Mentorship Exchange (CHIME) Grant 2008 with mentor, Simone Forti. Creating performances for stage, film and site specific locations since 1999, Blum's work spans literary, installation and performance. Blum began her early dance training in New York City in the studios of Alvin Ailey, Jose Limon and Movement Research. In addition to performing, choreographing and directing, she teaches classes and workshops in dance technique, composition and improvisation.
nono dance (Rosemary Hannon & Vitali Kononov) : dance
Nono Dance is a performance collective dedicated to conceptually, visually, and aurally framed improvisation. Formed by Rosemary Hannon and Vitali Kononov in 2007, Nono Dance investigates the somatic realms of dance performance. Nono’s improvisational work explores expanded awareness through non-doing. This authenticity in performance elicits a shared experiential field with the audience, offering somatic resonance and rich imagined non-linear narratives. (nonodance.info)
Free Roaming Chicks (Diahna Fortuna and Nicki Koethner) will perform Syncopated Dreams, a structured, improvised piece about relationship dynamics including spoken word and movement. Syncopated Dreams explores the dynamics integral with bisexual identity. Two dancers explore each other. They are in the moment. They respond. They react. They enable a world of possibility within any relationship.
Diahna Fortuna is founder of Fortuna Life Bodywork & Movement, teaching ways to embody cre
ative power and enrich mind-body connection. In private practice since 1994, Diahna draws on an extensive repertoire of techniques and her BA in dance. She has been performing in theater and dance since she was four years old and has been teaching Essential Motion classes & groups throughout the Bay Area since 2000. She's studied with Karen Roeper, founder of Essential Motion, since 1997 and continues to assist Karen's trainings and groups in the U.S. Diahna enjoys inspiring her clients, students, and audience members in becoming more enlivened, relaxed, and joyful in their bodies. http://fortunalife.com and http://www.essential-motion.com/Nicki Koethn
er is a multimedia artist, Marriage and Family Therapist and Expressive Art Therapist, specializing in spirituality, creativity, sexuality, attachment, trauma and parenting. She has given Expressive Arts workshops and performances in NY, the Bay Area and in Germany. Her performance work is inspired by her practice of Body Tales and Authentic Movement. She is a passionate advocate of the Expressive Arts for healing trauma as well as celebrating our aliveness and common humanity in sustainability. She is the Executive Co-Chair of the International Expressive Arts Therapy Association and is on the Board of Body Tales. She is a bisexual modern-day mystic who is curious about how the psyche expresses itself in the here and now and loves to explore consciousness and touch others through embodied experience.A singer
and vocal improviser from the Bay area, Shay Nichols loves creating music for the moment. Inspired by vocal traditions from around the world, she sings in imaginary languages that are a bridge from the primal to the sublime. Shay recently completed the CIIS Voice/Sound Healing certificate program 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.Green Hus
e is a songwriter with an unforgettable voice and a warm performance style. She loves to write songs; she loves to sing them. She takes the listener on a journey through her most recent incarnations of life. Departing from an insecure innocence, traveling to deep jungles and dreams within her heart, she reaches a humble, ecstatic destination.
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