ALEXANDER TECHNIQUE - SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER
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SOMA YOGA - OCTOBER
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BODY MIND CENTERING - NOVEMBER
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POST MODERN AEROBICS - DECEMBER
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SOMATIC PRACTICES
TUESDAYS, 9-10AM
$12/$10 (STUDENT) DROP IN // $100 FOR 10 CLASS CARD
SEPTEMBER 11-OCTOBER 2: ALEXANDER TECHNIQUE WITH KATE MARTEL
OCTOBER 9-30: SOMA YOGA WITH KATIE MARTIN
NOVEMBER 6, 13, 27, DECEMBER 4: BODY MIND CENTERING WITH LANI NAHELE
DECEMBER 11: POST MODERN AEROBICS WITH JEN POLINS
CLASS DESCRIPTIONS:
ALEXANDER TECHNIQUE
WITH KATE MARTEL
TUESDAYS: SEPTEMBER 11, 18, 25, OCTOBER 2
9:00-10:00AM
STUDIO4
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: SEPTEMBER 11, 18, 25, OCTOBER 2
9:00-10:00AM
STUDIO4
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.
SOMA YOGA
WITH KATIE MARTIN
TUESDAYS: OCTOBER 9, 16, 23, 30
9:00-10:00AM
STUDIO4
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: OCTOBER 9, 16, 23, 30
9:00-10:00AM
STUDIO4
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!
BODY MIND CENTERING
WITH LANI NAHELE
TUESDAYS: NOVEMBER 6, 13, 27, DECEMBER 4
(NO CLASS NOV 20 FOR THANKSGIVING!)
9:00-10:00AM
STUDIO4
Body-Mind Centering inspired material; come dig into anatomical magic with restorational dives into our cellular matrix.
We'll birth springboards for research and expansion of vocabulary.
This is a personal and partner laboratory.
WITH LANI NAHELE
TUESDAYS: NOVEMBER 6, 13, 27, DECEMBER 4
(NO CLASS NOV 20 FOR THANKSGIVING!)
9:00-10:00AM
STUDIO4
Body-Mind Centering inspired material; come dig into anatomical magic with restorational dives into our cellular matrix.
We'll birth springboards for research and expansion of vocabulary.
This is a personal and partner laboratory.
TEACHERS:
Photo by Stephan Delas Heras
KATE MARTEL, MFA, M.AmSAT
ALEXANDER TECHNIQUE - SEPTEMBER
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 - SEPTEMBER
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.
Photo by Cynthia Locklin
KATIE MARTIN, MFA, E-RYT
SOMA YOGA - OCTOBER
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 - OCTOBER
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.
LANI NAHELE
BODY MIND CENTERING - NOVEMBER
Deeply dedicated to the study of movement and the body, Lani Nahele (aka Lisa Schmidt) has been a lifelong movement educator, bodyworker, choreographer, and performer. She received her BFA from SUNY Purchase, and performed with the Trisha Brown Dance Company for seven years. She lived and taught in Europe and was awarded a commission to make work in Germany. Collaborators in Europe and the United States have included Frey Faust, Deiter Heitkamp, Ka Rustler, Eva Geueke, Catherine Musinsky, Olivier Besson, Jen Polins, Saliq Savage, and Dale Rosenkrantz among others. A dance professor at Springfield College, she has guest taught at Bard, Marlboro, Smith, Julliard, and Keene Colleges. A Practitioner of Body-Mind Centering since 1994, she is also trained and certified in Gyrotonic, Gyrokinesis, Pilates, Circulatory Massage and Reiki. She is the director of Studio rEvolution, Florence MA, where she runs Embodied Healing, her private bodywork practice, classes in SomoGyro, and her creative workgroup Who Are You?
JENNIFER POLINS
POST MODERN AEROBICS - DECEMBER
Jennifer Polins is a curator, mobilizer, movement practitioner and performance maker, bridging somatics -performance practices- and contemporary dance techniques for over 25 years. Jen is the founding director of The School for Contemporary Dance and Thought (http://www.scdtnoho.com/), holds an MFA in dance from Hollins University/The American Dance Festival and is a 2014 MCC choreographic fellow. She has danced professionally in America and Europe, starting with the Joffrey Ballet, Milwaukee Ballet and then the Zurich Operahouse Ballet companies before migrating to a professional career in contemporary performance art. Jen is specialized in rigorous Improvisational practices and worked closely with many mentors most notably- Nancy Stark Smith, Steve Paxton and Lisa Nelson. Jen is certified in Pilates, Gyrotonic, Gyrokinesis, Yoga and Massage. She is guest lecturer in the Five College Dance department currently teaching UMASS. She is the co founder of Wire Monkey Dance (http://www.wiremonkeydance.com/) where produced over 20 productions throughout America, Europe and Asia. Jen lives between Berlin and Northampton where she creates work, curates artists, connects communities and teaches. With SCDT, Jen is in close collaborative relationships with San Francisco’s La Alternativa ( http://www.la-alternativa.us/), Boston’s New Movement Collaborative (https://newmovementcollaborative.com/), Northampton’s Community Arts Trust(http://www.northamptonartstrust.org/) and Earthdance (http://www.earthdance.net/). Jen is working on the creative team of the Ponderosa TanzLand Festival beside Stephanie Maher. She has collaborated most recently with Maurice Fraga, Joy Davis, Jen Nugent, Stephanie Maher, Peter Schmitz, Sarah Shelton Mann, Paul Matteson and James Morrow. Vimeo links:https://vimeopro.com/user2635256/jen-polins-choreography
POST MODERN AEROBICS - DECEMBER
Jennifer Polins is a curator, mobilizer, movement practitioner and performance maker, bridging somatics -performance practices- and contemporary dance techniques for over 25 years. Jen is the founding director of The School for Contemporary Dance and Thought (http://www.scdtnoho.com/), holds an MFA in dance from Hollins University/The American Dance Festival and is a 2014 MCC choreographic fellow. She has danced professionally in America and Europe, starting with the Joffrey Ballet, Milwaukee Ballet and then the Zurich Operahouse Ballet companies before migrating to a professional career in contemporary performance art. Jen is specialized in rigorous Improvisational practices and worked closely with many mentors most notably- Nancy Stark Smith, Steve Paxton and Lisa Nelson. Jen is certified in Pilates, Gyrotonic, Gyrokinesis, Yoga and Massage. She is guest lecturer in the Five College Dance department currently teaching UMASS. She is the co founder of Wire Monkey Dance (http://www.wiremonkeydance.com/) where produced over 20 productions throughout America, Europe and Asia. Jen lives between Berlin and Northampton where she creates work, curates artists, connects communities and teaches. With SCDT, Jen is in close collaborative relationships with San Francisco’s La Alternativa ( http://www.la-alternativa.us/), Boston’s New Movement Collaborative (https://newmovementcollaborative.com/), Northampton’s Community Arts Trust(http://www.northamptonartstrust.org/) and Earthdance (http://www.earthdance.net/). Jen is working on the creative team of the Ponderosa TanzLand Festival beside Stephanie Maher. She has collaborated most recently with Maurice Fraga, Joy Davis, Jen Nugent, Stephanie Maher, Peter Schmitz, Sarah Shelton Mann, Paul Matteson and James Morrow. Vimeo links:https://vimeopro.com/user2635256/jen-polins-choreography
