​The Open space Residency is for new work by emerging artists that needs a container for exploration and play, a place to move and test out the work on its feet. Shaking the Tree offers artists an open space and a platform for sharing the work that has been created.

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Upcoming Residencies

Aubrey Jessen - Velvet
June 2020

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Velvet is the story of a woman finding herself caught up in a thrilling, boundary-pushing new friendship. The growing body count is probably unrelated...

Aubrey Jessen is a Portland-based performer, director, and writer. She acted in and wrote for Action/Adventure Theatre's popular serialized comedies Fall of the House, Sidekicks, and Mars One&Two. Also for Action/Adventure, she wrote the original script Ghost Town, and co-wrote/directed Hawthorne, which was nominated for a Drammy award for original script. Aubrey's scripts have also been seen at LiveOnstage, Profile Theatre, and Vancouver School of Arts and Academics. Additionally, Aubrey has worked as a teaching artist for Oregon Children’s Theatre, where she is helping to pilot programming for students with disabilities.

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Rachel Cohen- Driving Forces
​June 26th & 27th

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Photo by Julie Chetaille

Driving Forces is a visual, visceral song cycle, investigating “impact”... How does the world reverberate in us, and how can we reverberate back?

Rachel Cohen is a choreographer and performer based in New York City. She studied choreography with mentor Claire Mallardi at Harvard University, and in New York studied dance with Mary Anthony, Bertram Ross, and Carolyn Lord, and mask and clown with Rafael Bianciotto and Mario Gonzales. She is a certified teacher of Ruth Zaporah's Action Theater improvisation. She has performed with Nadine Sures, Sarah Bild and Susanna Hood, Theodora Skipitares, Christopher Caines, Julie Atlas Muz, Ariane Anthony, Le Min Tam, Shua Group, Mary Anthony, Rika Burnham, and Fiona Templeton, and choreographed for Olek, Chelsea Knight, Christine Jowers/Moving Arts Projects, and Peculiar Works. In 2003 Rachel founded movement-theater company Racoco, which fuses quixotic choreography, absurdist visuals, and raw materials in collaboration with performers, artists, and musicians, www.racoco.org. Check her work out on Instagram and Facebook.