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anima dance
New Video!!
This was made by Girlbot
Design
at our last
Yoga Retreat. The next retreat is coming up, March 2-4, 2012. There is
still space for a few more who'd like to burn the winter blues away!
More info here:
I
LOVE WINTER
yoga urlaub mit rachel brooker
02. bis 04. märz 2012
Für
Menschen, die den Winter lieben, und diejenigen,
die ihn lieben lernen
möchten!
Programm
Freitag
19.00 Uhr: Yogastunde, 20.30 Uhr: Abendessen
Samstag
Morgens: Yogastunde + Yoga-Philosophie
Nachmittags: Möglichkeit fuer Privatyogastunden,
Russisch-Tibetanische
Honigmassage, Ingwerwickel-Shiatsubehandlung (25 € pro Angebot)
Abends: Yogastunde, Essen, Sauna
Sonntag
Yogastunde und Abschluss
Ort
Wokule e.V., Am Kleinen Wukensee, 16359 Biesenthal
Kosten
140 € + Verpflegung (30 €)
+ Übernachtungskosten (10 €)
Weitere
infos hier: flyer
Anreise
infos hier
oder email Rachel
mit Fragen/Anmeldung!
recent events:
Performers' Rights
Initiative
DANCERS UNITE for fair and safe
work conditions!
Every now and then I am
seized by a desire to change the world, no
through art, but through activism. This happened recently, as I read
about the current controversy sparked by Yvonne Rainer's comments
on
working conditions for performers in a show of Marina Abramovic's work
in LA. Suddenly I had an idea how dance artists can, taking advantage
of the flexibility and speed of electronic communication and social
networking, develop the strength in numbers that we need to transform
the culture of the performance industry, so that fairness and respect
for our work can become a given and not an exception.
In a flurry of very
exciting activity, I made the Performers' Rights Initiative website and got in touch with
Sara Wookey, the dancer who
turned down Abramovic's job offer and sparked a press reaction with her
Open Letter to Artists. In
collaboration with Wookey and other dance
artists working in Europe and the US, I've written two texts as tools
for
dance artists negotiating transparency in hiring and fair pay-- the
introduction
and both texts are online
here. This is a very simple idea for creating change with no
budget and no stress by articulating a
group vision where it counts. Take a look, pass the word, use the tools
(to accompany a polite no and request for transparency in hiring) and follow the blog to help swell our
numbers and add your voice.
Thanks and onward!!
Rachel
Laura Weiss and I seriously enjoyed choreographing and shooting German
band Jennifer
Rostock's video for Mein Mikrofon. They are great kids.;)
Full
Video-- viewable in the USA
Open Showing: Bolero
Wednesday, November 10 · 6:00pm
Swarthmore
College, Lang Performing Arts Center
500 College Ave
Swarthmore, PA
Rachel Brooker with Christina Zani
a new work created at the Swarthmore Project Residency with Bethany
Formica and Silvana Cordell
followed by a question and answer session.
BOLERO also shown at:
Ulla's
House Nov 6th!
Laurie Berg
with Siri Peterson
Deborah Black
Rachel Brooker (Berlin)
Jim Byrne
Hosted by Sasha Welsh and Laurie Berg
at Ulla's House
Brooklyn, NY
Fieldwork Showing: Zürich
Friday, October 1, 17:00
Tanzhaus
Zürich
Wasserwerkstrasse 129
ch-8027 Zürich
including a preview of Bolero,
a new work by Rachel Brooker with Meret Schlegel (European cast)
Body
on the Body
a performance installation in light and skin
September 24 and 25, 20:30
Savvy Contemporary
Richardstraße 43-44, Berlin-Neukölln
direction/concept: rachel brooker/kristof
meers
with:
mirjam gurtner / anuki coats / daniela gast / christine mauch / jim
neirinck /
sarah-jane norman / martin reimann / clare molloy / rachel brooker /
kristof meers
open admission, donations accepted.
NoShow
a performance about not performing
Rachel Brooker
with
Silvana Cardell
Bethany Formica and
Christina Zani
OPEN REHEARSAL
2pm
Friday, August 6, 2010
Lang Performing Arts Center/Troy Dance Lab
Swarthmore College
500 College Ave, Swarthmore, PA 19081
Rachel Brooker premiered
a new work at
SAVVY Contemporary,
Berlin-Neukölln, on March 19th, 2010. More on The Artaud Project
here.
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The Artaud
Project:
Rachel Brooker/anima dance premiered a new work based on an
Artaud
quote at SAVVY Contemporary, Richardstr. 43/44,
Berlin-Neukölln, on March 19th and 20th at 20:30. IV
bottles, Britney Spears and a persistent lack of nudity. More
here.
Rachel performed in Run Dry #3
with Bernardo Coloma, March
24-27, 2010 at Theaterhaus Mitte. More info here.
FieldDay #1: a one-day
event by The Field Berlin, March 14, 2010 at schwelle7.
My Patriot
Act
on tour!
October 31,
2009,
20:30, OT301,
Amsterdam
November 7 and 8, 20:30, schwelle7,
Uferstr. 6,
Berlin-Wedding
November 20 and 21, 20:00, Common Ground Theater, Durham, NC,
USA
December 16th, DC Arts Center, Washington, D.C.,
USA
Turns out Americans especially like this piece. Go figure!
ART GROWS HERE: Fieldwork
Showing
October 28th, 20:30. The Field Berlin's first session of artist
feedback practice culminated in a produced showing at schwelle 7 on
October 28th. All participating artists will showed new work developed
during the session. More info at The Field Berlin website.
Saturday, June
27th at 48 Std
Neukölln: Rachel
the Robot made her public debut. An electronic being with
a
brain for a heart and a loudspeaker built into her belly, on a quest
for her reason for being.
Bertram Dhellemmes: guitar | Rachel Brooker: sensors (sonic costume by
Benoît Maubrey)
concert in Taktfrei - Festival für freie Musik
-able Galerie - Hobrechtstrasse 28 12047 Berlin
27 June 2009 - 16:00
Rachel and the Green
Party Cheerleaders rocked the
Green Party Tulips vs. Türkiyemspor
football
match on Saturday, May 30th at Katzbach Stadion, Dudenstraße
40-64, Berlin-Kreuzberg. Cute Green party Parliament members and
Türkiyemspor 30+ team players running around looking too cool
to
play, a
samba drum squad and funky moves in short
skirts. The greens won 7-1! The
Green Party Cheerleaders are in the news here.
New video footage of Oh,
Beautiful: My Patriot Act is now online here; recorded
at a lecture-demonstration a Swarthmore College in April, 2009.
Postcards from Berlin
are here! These site-specific dance films were made at
locations across Berlin with public school students by Rachel Brooker
and three other choreographers. See
the films and the Berlin Zeitung article about them HERE!
Rachel performed an excerpt of her solo Oh,
Beautiful: My Patriot
Act in a Lecture/Demonstration at Swarthmore College,
Swarthmore, PA, on April 8th.
Rachel performed March 28th and 29th
at ada studio in Run Dry
with Bernardo Coloma. See video online at TanzForumBerlin!
Rachel performed Oh, Beautiful: My Patriot
Act at:
Brotfabrik,
Calgariplatz, Berlin
January 22-25, 2009, 20:00
(filmed
and edited by
Walter Bickman at Tanz Forum Berlin)
Election Night Party with
Democrats Abroad Berlin
Babylon Theater, Rosa Luxembourg Platz, Berlin-Mitte
Tuesday, November 4th, 22:30 until sunrise
www.demsinberlin.de
Rachel and dancers performed Invitation:
in Weimar! Saturday, June 7th, 10 pm
at Gaswerk Weimar
part of the Rahmenlos
Festival, supported by Bauhaus University Weimar
at Dock
11, Berlin, May 8-11, 2008
Read what the press said
about Invitation at Dock 11
WORLDVOTE,
An opportunity for non-US citizens to have a voice in the US
presidential primaries. This was a great event and received a lot of press. It will
reprise in
November for the General Presidental Elections.
about
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anima
dance, an eight-year-old
dance theater company, is based in Berlin, Germany. For more
information or to book a performance or residency, contact director Rachel Brooker
or join our mailing list.
Rachel
Brooker founded and
directs Anima Dance, and is the site coordinator for The
Field Berlin, a local branch of an international arts
organization. She studies Anusara Yoga with John Friend and
Paul Sobin.
anima dance productions to date include The Artaud Project, My Patriot Act,
a reflection on the condition of being American, Invitation and Body on the Body,
interactive installations, ten evenings of original choreography and
six dance films.
Brooker's work has been funded by public and private
donors in
both sides of the Atlantic. She has a degree in Dance and
Biology from
Swarthmore College, and has
performed across the US and Europe, most recently collaborating with Felix
Ruckert, Marc Bogaerts and Sabine
Dahrendorf.
Brooker offers dance and yoga instruction and
residencies in schools and universities, and is a staff member for ISTA
and TanzZeit. Class schedule here. For
more information on instruction contact Rachel.
Download
CV as PDF
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past projects
Body on
the Body,
a performative installation with visual artist Kristof Meers
The Artaud
Project, commissioned by Savvy Contemporary gallery
My Patriot
Act, a solo about the good, the bad and the ugly of being
American
The
Field Berlin, an artists' feedback process
Postcards
from Berlin, site-specific dance films made with kids in
Berlin
Oh,
Beautiful: My Patriot Act, a multimedia solo
The
Green Party Cheerleaders
Invitation,
an interactive installation
WORLDVOTE:
make your voice heard!
Dance
for Peace
The Murakami
Cycle
dusttodust
(dance film directed by John Coombes)
Of Angels
Whoever finds this, I love you
Community Showcases
The Dream/More than Air: Anima Dance Presents
The Mirrorings Project
Falling Out My Head (a collaboration with Hannah McClure
Chalut)
classes and workshops
workshops:
Winter Yoga Retreat coming up!
yoga urlaub mit rachel brooker
02. bis 04. märz 2012
Für
Menschen, die den Winter lieben, und diejenigen,
die ihn lieben lernen
möchten!
Weitere
infos hier: flyer
Anreise
infos hier
oder email Rachel
mit Fragen/Anmeldung!
open classes:
Rachel
no longer teaches on Saturdays.
Rachel Brooker draws
on her experience in a variety of dance
and bodywork techniques to create her supportive, transformative
teaching technique. She studies Anusara Yoga with John Friend and
Paul Sobin. She is on the
dance faculty of ISTA and TanzZeit,
and has taught master classes at Swarthmore, Sarah Lawrence and
Mercyhurst Colleges.
Rachel offers
performance residencies in schools and at universities and gives
individual
therapeutic Yoga instruction. Email Rachel for
more information, or join our mailing list to be updated on
future classes and workshops.
*Language: Unless otherwise listed, classes are in
German. However, when a student is present who doesn't speak German,
Rachel is happy to add "English subtitles" to any class so everyone is
able to particpate fully. Just ask.
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photos
For photos and lots of video, see individual Projects.
press
Articles:
Invitation:
Berühren Erlaubt,
Berliner Morgenpost, Berlin, 08.05.08
Invitation,
Tip Magazine, Berlin, 10.05.08
Rachel Brooker's Invitation,
Independent Weekly, Durham, NC, 24.02.08
WORLDVOTE:
Primary Votes Anyone?
Tapmag: magazine for culture, politics and life from a transatlantic
perspective, Berlin, 02.02.08
Super Tuesday an der Spree
Berliner Zeitung, Berlin, 05.02.08
Anspannung vor dem "Super Tuesday"
Tagesspeigel, Berlin, 05.02.08
Press Releases:
INVITATION
at Dock 11, Berlin-- 23.04.08 Deutsch
/ English
WORLDVOTE press release--
01.02.08 Deutsch
/ English
NC's Own Comes Home! January
2008 press
release-- 10.01.08
Anima Dance Fall 2005 Season press
release-- 28.11.05
contact
For more information, email Rachel Brooker,
join our mailing list or
Imprint/Impressum:
Rachel Brooker
Jungstr. 12
10247 Berlin
Germany
+49 (0) 0177 318 9346
This information is here for legal reasons. It is not, however, the
quickest way to reach me: please us email.
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