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!

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. 

www.clairepeaslee.net

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...

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 8^th 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. 

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!

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!

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.

Save the Date!

Our next Moment's Notice show is on

Sunday, March 18, 2012 

at 7pm.  Details coming soon...

See you there!