New Dance Alliance presents
the 35th Anniversary of Performance Mix Festival
in partnership with Movement Research at
122 Community Center at 150 First Avenue
Sunday June 13 at 2pm
Program B shared program:
Rachel Thorne Germond Performance Collage (RTGPC) (live),

For more information and tickets go to http://newdancealliance.org/performance-mix-festival/

Tasha Taylor and Rachel Thorne Germond photo c.2019 by Steven Pisano

Enigma of an Afternoon
featuring Rachel Thorne Germond and Tasha Taylor
Enigma of an Afternoon (Movement Installation)
Rachel Thorne Germond and Tasha Taylor perform a metaphysical dreamscape that addresses various physical and psychic states that have emerged and escalated during the Covid 19 pandemic.  In this work, we ask ourselves, as we are coming tentatively out of our year of isolation, "How has the world changed? How have we changed? What has stayed the same? "  We attempt to comprehend an enigmatic new reality by exploring how we can move , and find stillness, within it. 

Rachel Thorne Germond is a performer, dancer, teacher, choreographer, and visual artist and has been creating dance/performance work since the late 1980’s.  Based in New York City from 1986-1998, she presented her choreography at notable venues such as St. Mark’s Church Danspace, Dixon Place, and The Joyce Soho, amongst others. In 2000 she achieved an M.F.A. in Choreography from the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana and afterwards founded her Chicago-based  company, RTG Dance. From 2010-2014 she taught in Southeastern Virginia at  Old Dominion University and Christopher Newport University and was part of a multidisciplinary performance troupe, ArtPile.  Since returning to New York in 2014,  she has performed with Alice Klugherz and Karen Bernard, and continues to create and present multidisciplinary performances  that incorporate visual art, dance, video, and photography via Rachel Thorne Germond Performance Collage. 

Tasha Taylor has performed extensively with many choreographers including Pat Cremins, Steve Gross, Dean Moss, Lynn Shapiro, Matthew Brookoff, and RoseAnne Spradlin. She received a "Bessie" Award for her performance in Spradlin's Underworld. Tasha returned to dance with Rachel Thorne Germond Performance Collage in 2019 and continues to work with Rachel collaboratively. A Feldenkrais® practitioner since 2006, Tasha teaches classes at Movement Research and maintains a practice on the Upper West Side focusing on performing artists interested in improving their self-use. Tasha delights in improvisation and poetry and is curious about the relationship between movement, feeling and learning.