FELDENKRAIS - FEBRUARY
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SOMA YOGA - MARCH
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ALEXANDER TECHNIQUE - MAY
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SOMATIC PRACTICES
TUESDAYS, 9-10AM
LOCATION: Dance Studio at 33 Hawley St, Northampton MA
$12/$10 (STUDENT) DROP IN // $100 FOR 10 CLASS CARD
FEBRUARY 5, 12, 19, 26: FELDENKRAIS WITH FRITHA PENGELLY
MARCH 5, 12, 19, 26: SOMA YOGA WITH KATIE MARTIN
APRIL 2, 9, 16, 23, 30: MORNING MOVEMENT WITH JEN HARMON
MAY 7, 14, 21, 28: ALEXANDER TECHNIQUE WITH KATE MARTEL
CLASS DESCRIPTIONS:
FELDENKRAIS
WITH FRITHA PENGELLY
TUESDAYS 9:00-10:00AM
FEBRUARY 5, 12, 19, 26
LOCATION: 33 HAWLEY ST
Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement® (ATM) classes offer a gentle approach to changing old habits and encouraging new possibilities. Dr. Feldenkrais created over 1000 lessons, so each class, or lesson, is a unique sequence of movements. The teacher guides students to explore the lesson slowly and gently, sometimes in the imagination, with the goal of finding ease and clarity of skeletal support. Students work at their own pace, honoring their individual learning process and opening themselves up to discovering habits they were previously unaware of. This creates the possibility for moving with more support, ease, power, and less wear and tear on the soft tissues of the body.
The foundation for every ATM lesson is what YOU already do well. Therefore you have the opportunity to explore new movement opportunities without the feelings of inadequacy and struggle that too often accompany learning. Regular attendance will deepen your sensory acuity and self-awareness. This will allow you to more fully integrate profound shifts into your daily movement patterns.
SOMA YOGA
WITH KATIE MARTIN
TUESDAYS 9:00-10:00AM
MARCH 5, 12, 19, 26
LOCATION: 33 HAWLEY ST
An energizing and indulgent movement conditioning experience for your whole being.
Drawing on a vast array of physical modalities, including Yoga, Qi Gong, Pilates, Hanna Somatics, Feldenkrais Method, Body-Mind Centering, Ideokinesis, Bartenieff Fundamentals, contemporary dance, and bodywork practices.
A unique sequence of movement patterns and explorations every class--from standing, sitting, to lying on the floor--that will awaken, deepen, and restore your full sensory intelligence and innate capacity for movement.
Experience the art and ease of living in your body.
Open to all--bring a mat if you have one!
WITH KATIE MARTIN
TUESDAYS 9:00-10:00AM
MARCH 5, 12, 19, 26
LOCATION: 33 HAWLEY ST
An energizing and indulgent movement conditioning experience for your whole being.
Drawing on a vast array of physical modalities, including Yoga, Qi Gong, Pilates, Hanna Somatics, Feldenkrais Method, Body-Mind Centering, Ideokinesis, Bartenieff Fundamentals, contemporary dance, and bodywork practices.
A unique sequence of movement patterns and explorations every class--from standing, sitting, to lying on the floor--that will awaken, deepen, and restore your full sensory intelligence and innate capacity for movement.
Experience the art and ease of living in your body.
Open to all--bring a mat if you have one!
MORNING MOVEMENT
WITH JEN HARMON
TUESDAYS 9:00-10:00AM
APRIL 2, 9, 16, 23, 30
LOCATION: 33 HAWLEY ST
Come connect to the inner space of the body through guided continuous movement improvisation, nourishing spirals, restorative spinal circles, developmental movements, deep stretching, sensory awareness practice, focused anatomical investigations and meditation. All are welcome.
WITH JEN HARMON
TUESDAYS 9:00-10:00AM
APRIL 2, 9, 16, 23, 30
LOCATION: 33 HAWLEY ST
Come connect to the inner space of the body through guided continuous movement improvisation, nourishing spirals, restorative spinal circles, developmental movements, deep stretching, sensory awareness practice, focused anatomical investigations and meditation. All are welcome.
ALEXANDER TECHNIQUE
WITH KATE MARTEL
TUESDAYS 9:00-10:00AM
MAY 7, 14, 21, 28
LOCATION: 33 HAWLEY ST
Experience movement with ease while applying the principles of the Alexander Technique. This extended session on the floor invites students to practice gentle movement through the lens of the AT, focusing on breath, dynamic balance and optimal coordination through the whole mind body. Movement structures and patterns are drawn from such practices as Bartenieff Fundamentals, Yoga, and various Dance Techniques.
WITH KATE MARTEL
TUESDAYS 9:00-10:00AM
MAY 7, 14, 21, 28
LOCATION: 33 HAWLEY ST
Experience movement with ease while applying the principles of the Alexander Technique. This extended session on the floor invites students to practice gentle movement through the lens of the AT, focusing on breath, dynamic balance and optimal coordination through the whole mind body. Movement structures and patterns are drawn from such practices as Bartenieff Fundamentals, Yoga, and various Dance Techniques.
TEACHERS:
FRITHA PENGELLY
FELDENKRAIS - FEBRUARY
Fritha Pengelly is a Guild Certified Feldenkrais Practitionercm and a Certified IOPS Practitioner based in Northampton, MA. In 2013 she graduated from the Feldenkrais Professional Training Program at the Feldenkrais Institute of NY where she studied with director David Zemach-Bersin, Sheryl Field, Anna Johnson, Aliza Stewart, Arlyn Zones, Ruty Bar, Deborah Bowes, and Elizabeth Beringer. She has also had the pleasure of studying with Dr. Jeff Haller, and graduated from Dr. Haller’s first IOPS Academy Graduate Training in May 2017.
Fritha Pengelly has over 30 years of dance and movement experience, and has been a certified Pilates instructor since 2002. She spent seven years (1994-2001) performing and teaching nationally and internationally as a member of the New York City-based Doug Elkins Dance Company, serving as co-rehearsal director from 2000-2001. In addition to her work with the Elkins Company, Fritha has performed with The Chamber Dance Company, David Neumann, and Wire Monkey Dance. Her dances have been performed at several venues in New York City, The Five Colleges in Massachusetts, Northampton, Darien Arts Center (CT), Seattle (WA), Omaha (NE), and at the Inside/Out Series at Jacob’s Pillow.
Fritha received her M.F.A. in dance with a focus on anatomy and physiology from the University of Washington and currently teaches Dance Kinesiology at the Hartt School, University of Hartford in Hartford, Connecticut. She has also taught as a visiting artist at Hampshire College, Amherst College, Mount Holyoke College, the University of Massachusetts/Amherst, Bennington College, North Carolina School of the Arts, Wake Forest University, and Springfield College.
Fritha teaches Awareness Through Movement classes and Functional Integration lessons as well as Dance for Parkinson’s classes in Northampton. MA.
Photo by Cynthia Locklin
KATIE MARTIN, MFA, E-RYT
SOMA YOGA - MARCH
Katie Martin is a choreographer, performer, dance and movement educator, and recipient of the national Jacob K. Javits Fellowship in Dance. She has presented and performed her choreography throughout New York City and across the country, including Joyce SoHo, Dance Theater Workshop, Danspace Project, Symphony Space, EMPAC, The Neurosciences Institute, New England Complex Systems Institute, Flynn Center for the Performing Arts, and A.P.E. Gallery, as well as at numerous college and university performance venues. Her work has been supported by such organizations as the Jerome Robbins Foundation, National Performance Network, Bumper Foundation, Massachusetts Cultural Council, Vermont Arts Council, Northampton Arts Council, and the School for Contemporary Dance and Thought and has been honored at the American College Dance Association’s Gala Concert and selected for the National College Dance Festival at the Kennedy Center.
Katie has been highlighted in such publications as Dance Magazine, Royal Academy of Dance’s Dance Gazette (UK), Contredanse/Nouvelles de Danse (Belgium), Contact Quarterly, Slate Magazine, signal to noise, Village Voice, Time Out New York, in Melinda Buckwalter’s anthology Composing While Dancing: An Improviser’s Companion, and in Elliot Caplan’s dance film Emergent Forms.
She has had the pleasure of collaborating with and performing in the work of many artists, including choreographers Paul Matteson, Jennifer Nugent, David Dorfman, Susan Rethorst, Dana Reitz, Ann Carlson, Wendy Woodson, Terry Creach, Keith Thompson, Meg Wolfe, Mark Dendy, and the Emergent Improvisation Project; with musicians Bill Nace, Jake Meginsky, Tatsuya Nakatani, and Chris Cooper; and with Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Elliot Caplan.
Katie trained and performed for 10 years under the direction of American Ballet Theater principal ballerina Karena Brock Carlyle before receiving a BA in Dance at Bennington College and a MFA in Choreography and Dance Performance as a Teaching Fellow and Gretchen Moran Fellow at Smith College. She is also a certified Interdisciplinary Yoga educator, synthesizing various modalities of embodied training into unique yoga-based movement experiences for all levels of practice. Over the past 15 years, Katie has created and taught a wide range of dance, movement, and yoga courses throughout New England, holding dance faculty positions at Amherst, Smith, Hampshire, Middlebury, and Bennington Colleges. She lives in Northampton, MA and is currently on the dance faculty throughout the Five College Dance Department and at the School for Contemporary Dance and Thought.
SOMA YOGA - MARCH
Katie Martin is a choreographer, performer, dance and movement educator, and recipient of the national Jacob K. Javits Fellowship in Dance. She has presented and performed her choreography throughout New York City and across the country, including Joyce SoHo, Dance Theater Workshop, Danspace Project, Symphony Space, EMPAC, The Neurosciences Institute, New England Complex Systems Institute, Flynn Center for the Performing Arts, and A.P.E. Gallery, as well as at numerous college and university performance venues. Her work has been supported by such organizations as the Jerome Robbins Foundation, National Performance Network, Bumper Foundation, Massachusetts Cultural Council, Vermont Arts Council, Northampton Arts Council, and the School for Contemporary Dance and Thought and has been honored at the American College Dance Association’s Gala Concert and selected for the National College Dance Festival at the Kennedy Center.
Katie has been highlighted in such publications as Dance Magazine, Royal Academy of Dance’s Dance Gazette (UK), Contredanse/Nouvelles de Danse (Belgium), Contact Quarterly, Slate Magazine, signal to noise, Village Voice, Time Out New York, in Melinda Buckwalter’s anthology Composing While Dancing: An Improviser’s Companion, and in Elliot Caplan’s dance film Emergent Forms.
She has had the pleasure of collaborating with and performing in the work of many artists, including choreographers Paul Matteson, Jennifer Nugent, David Dorfman, Susan Rethorst, Dana Reitz, Ann Carlson, Wendy Woodson, Terry Creach, Keith Thompson, Meg Wolfe, Mark Dendy, and the Emergent Improvisation Project; with musicians Bill Nace, Jake Meginsky, Tatsuya Nakatani, and Chris Cooper; and with Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Elliot Caplan.
Katie trained and performed for 10 years under the direction of American Ballet Theater principal ballerina Karena Brock Carlyle before receiving a BA in Dance at Bennington College and a MFA in Choreography and Dance Performance as a Teaching Fellow and Gretchen Moran Fellow at Smith College. She is also a certified Interdisciplinary Yoga educator, synthesizing various modalities of embodied training into unique yoga-based movement experiences for all levels of practice. Over the past 15 years, Katie has created and taught a wide range of dance, movement, and yoga courses throughout New England, holding dance faculty positions at Amherst, Smith, Hampshire, Middlebury, and Bennington Colleges. She lives in Northampton, MA and is currently on the dance faculty throughout the Five College Dance Department and at the School for Contemporary Dance and Thought.
JEN HARMON
MORNING MOVEMENT - APRIL
Jennifer Harmon is a movement artist, choreographer/director and performer. Currently she is on faculty at Movement Research where she teaches Topf Technique/Dynamic Anatomy at Gibney Dance. She recently choreographed for Miranda Theatre’s off Broadway production, They Promised Her the Moon at St. Clements Theatre. She was the Director of Acting and Choreography for the experience design group Odyssey Works from 2010-2015. In this role, she was lead collaborator and performer for all the immersive/long duration productions in New York. She has performed or choreographed with various artists at Dance Space Project Saint Marks Church, Dixon Place, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Movement Research, Solo Arts Group. AUNTS, En Garde Arts and many site-specific locations. She has been a resident artist at Mabou Mines Theatre and the Brooklyn Arts Exchange. Her short documentary film, 12 Tons of Trash, premiered at the Woodstock Film Festival. She has also taught workshops at Barnard College, Earthdance, Windover Arts, and privately. She was a dance teaching artist in the public schools through the Guggenheim Museum and a guest choreographer with the pre-professional young people’s dance company at the Creative Arts Studio, NY. She is a certified Topf Technique practitioner and registered somatic Movement Educator and Therapist through ISMETA. She has been influenced by the teachings of Ideokinesis with Nancy Topf and Andre Bernard, Native American clowning techniques with Sue Morrison, and the movement language, Gaga, developed by Ohad Naharin-Batshevea Dance. She also has a long-time practice of Vipassana meditation. She holds a B.A. from Brown University and lives in both Brooklyn, NY and Western MA.
Photo by Stephan Delas Heras
KATE MARTEL, MFA, M.AmSAT
ALEXANDER TECHNIQUE - MAY
Kate Martel has recently relocated back to the Pioneer Valley from New York City after 15 years. While in NYC, she performed and choreographed as an independent dance artist. Most notably, she has been a collaborating artist with Laura Peterson Choreography for ten years, performing throughout NYC and internationally. She has also danced for choreographers Rebecca Brooks, David Hurwith, Luis Lara Malvacias, Juliette Mapp, Nora Stephens and Sarah White-Ayon. Her own choreography has been presented by Women in Motion, Triskelion Arts, Dixon Place, Center for Performance Research and Rooftop Dance Series. She was a collaborator on Nicole Wolcott’s solo PaperPieces, and Conor Simpson’s film Jux Lucid, which premiered at the Flatlands Dance Film Festival. Kate has been part-time faculty at Adelphi University, Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University, and Western Connecticut State University. She has also taught at Newport Academy of Ballet. She earned her BA from Goucher College and MFA from University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. Kate is an AmSAT board certified Alexander Technique teacher who studied under Ann Rodiger at the Balance Arts Center. She is thrilled to return to the Pioneer Valley and immerse herself in its vibrant dance community as an educator, artist and mother.
ALEXANDER TECHNIQUE - MAY
Kate Martel has recently relocated back to the Pioneer Valley from New York City after 15 years. While in NYC, she performed and choreographed as an independent dance artist. Most notably, she has been a collaborating artist with Laura Peterson Choreography for ten years, performing throughout NYC and internationally. She has also danced for choreographers Rebecca Brooks, David Hurwith, Luis Lara Malvacias, Juliette Mapp, Nora Stephens and Sarah White-Ayon. Her own choreography has been presented by Women in Motion, Triskelion Arts, Dixon Place, Center for Performance Research and Rooftop Dance Series. She was a collaborator on Nicole Wolcott’s solo PaperPieces, and Conor Simpson’s film Jux Lucid, which premiered at the Flatlands Dance Film Festival. Kate has been part-time faculty at Adelphi University, Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University, and Western Connecticut State University. She has also taught at Newport Academy of Ballet. She earned her BA from Goucher College and MFA from University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. Kate is an AmSAT board certified Alexander Technique teacher who studied under Ann Rodiger at the Balance Arts Center. She is thrilled to return to the Pioneer Valley and immerse herself in its vibrant dance community as an educator, artist and mother.
