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HATCHERY
SUMMER 2019 WORKSHOP
AUGUST 5-9
Summer workshop for teens ages 13-18, including Hatchery members, those interested in dance/theater performance practices, and anyone interested in joining Hatchery for Fall 2019.
The week will combine dance training and performance practices including a daily technique class, choreographic mentorship, theater-making, and new repertory pieces created during the workshop with Shakia Johnson and Karinne Keithley Syers.
Teachers include Jen Polins, Leah Fournier, Shakia Johnson, and Karinne Keithley Syers.
Questions? Email Leah at [email protected]!
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WHEN: AUGUST 5-9 MONDAY - FRIDAY 9:30-11am Morning Movement Class 11-11:30am Break 11:30am-1:30pm Session One with Karinne Keithley Syers 1:30am-2:30pm Lunch Break 2:30-4:30pm Session Two with Shakia Johnson INFORMAL SHOWING: FRIDAY, AUGUST 9 AT 7PM WHERE: ALL CLASSES WILL TAKE PLACE AT 33 HAWLEY ST. Showing location TBA! |
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WHO: PARTICIPANTS: Students ages 13-18
HOW: FULL PROGRAM AUG 5-9: $350 per student (Siblings save $50!) SCROLL DOWN TO REGISTER! WHAT: WEEK ONE DESCRIPTIONS: MORNING MOVEMENT CLASS • 9:30-11AM • Morning movement is contemporary dance class open to all levels. We will begin with basic modern dance warm ups and work with improvisational structures that will increase awareness and stamina, expand compositional choices in solos and group forms, and articulate falling and suspending off-center. Class work explores sensation, instinct, and the inherent musical phrasing inside the body. Led by Jen Polins and Leah Fournier SESSION ONE • 11:30AM-1:30PM • THINKING IN THEATER: This 4-day class examines theater-making from the compositional perspectives of space, time, sound, and movement. Both improvising and composing, we’ll approach 4 short contemporary scripts over the course of the week. Led by Karinne Keithley Syers SESSION TWO • 2:30-4:30PM • Hip Hop and NEW Repertory piece created with Shakia Johnson. |
QUESTIONS:
If you have questions about the summer workshop,
please contact Leah at [email protected].
If you have questions about the summer workshop,
please contact Leah at [email protected].
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YOUR TEACHERS:
LEAH FOURNIER is an improvisor, dancer, and dance-maker born and raised in Lewiston, Maine. She has collaborated with and performed in works by artists including Angie Hauser, Chris Aiken, Sara Shelton Mann, Jennifer Polins, Selene Carter, Emily Lukasewski, and is currently in process with Barbie Diewald and Shaina Cantino. She has been part of numerous site specific performances including Mill Town with Stephan Koplowitz at the Bates Dance Festival in 2017, at The Yard and along the Martha’s Vineyard coastline with OceA Wilderness Dance in 2015, and at the Indiana University Art Museum in 2013 and 2014. She is the second half of Middle Space Dance, an imaginary dance company, alongside longtime collaborator and friend, Amelia Koper Heintzelman. Their work has been presented in New York, Detroit, Philadelphia, Indiana, and Massachusetts. She graduated from Indiana University in 2015 with a Bachelor of Science in Kinesiology, focused in Contemporary Dance. Leah currently resides in Easthampton, MA with her cat, Chewie, where she works and teaches at The School For Contemporary Dance & Thought and Pioneer Valley Ballet. www.middlespacedance.com
SHAKIA JOHNSON, born and raised in Springfield, Massachusetts, is a graduate of Pioneer Valley’s Performing Arts Charter High School in South Hadley, Ma and Dean College in Franklin, Ma. She received her teaching artist certificate from the National Dance Institute in New York in 2009. Johnson has choreographed and directed more than 50 hip hop, modern, African and lyrical works that have been performed at Trenton Educational Dance Institute, Rider University, the Princeton School of Ballet and the Bates Dance Festival. She has performed for numerous hip hop events and has opened for concerts by Fat Joe, Jadakiss, 112, Charlie Baltimore, Kima from “Total” and Omarion. In 2005 she choreographed a hip-hop number for the Celtics/NBA half-time show. She has toured the U.S. and abroad dancing with Face Da Phlave Entertainment and Illstyle and Peace Productions. Johnson is an alumnus of Jacob’s Pillow and Bates Dance Festival’s Young Dancers Workshop and was selected for BDF’s Emerging Choreographer program in 2006. Shakia has been teaching at the Bates Dance Festival for 4 years and spent her last summer teaching the Bates Professional Training Program and created her repertory work called, “Circle of Love”. Shakia currently teaches Hip Hop culture and dance technique at Mount Holyoke College, Smith College and Williams College.
KARINNE KEITHLEY SYERS is an interdisciplinary artist working in theater, text, sound, radio, bookmaking, and animation. She is a current resident playwright of New Dramatists. Her museum-operetta Montgomery Park, or Opulence won a New York Dance & Performance "Bessie" Award for Outstanding Production in 2011. She recently relocated to the valley after 20 years in New York City, where her original work was seen at The Chocolate Factory Theater, Incubator Arts Project, Danspace Project, and Dixon Place, and where she collaborated as a performer, sound/video designer, and librettist with Big Dance Theater, Sibyl Kempson, Young Jean Lee, David Neumann, Chris Yon, Sara Smith, Theater of a Two-Headed Calf, The Civilians, Talking Band, and many others.
JEN POLINS, SCDT’s Founding Director, is a curator, mobilizer, movement practitioner, and performance maker who has worked at the intersection of somatics, performance, and contemporary dance techniques for over twenty-five years. She holds an MFA in Dance from Hollins University/The American Dance Festival and is a 2014 MCC choreographic fellow. Jen has danced professionally in America and Europe, starting with the Joffrey, Milwaukee, and Zurich Operahouse ballet companies before embarking on a professional career in performance art and co-founding Wire Monkey Dance, with over twenty productions across America, Europe, and Asia. She specializes in rigorous improvisational practices and has worked closely with many mentors, most notably Nancy Stark Smith, Steve Paxton, and Lisa Nelson. More recently she has collaborated with Maurice Fraga, Joy Davis, Jen Nugent, Stephanie Maher, Peter Schmitz, Sarah Shelton Mann, Paul Matteson, and James Morrow. Jen is certified in Pilates, Gyrotonic, Gyrokinesis, yoga, and massage, and is guest lecturer in the Five College Dance Department, currently teaching at Amherst College. With SCDT, she maintains close collaborative relationships with the Northampton Arts Trust as the program assistant of A.P.E. @ Hawley St , San Francisco’s La Alternativa, and Boston’s New Movement Collaborative and Ponderosa TanzLand Festival. She lives in Northampton.
LEAH FOURNIER is an improvisor, dancer, and dance-maker born and raised in Lewiston, Maine. She has collaborated with and performed in works by artists including Angie Hauser, Chris Aiken, Sara Shelton Mann, Jennifer Polins, Selene Carter, Emily Lukasewski, and is currently in process with Barbie Diewald and Shaina Cantino. She has been part of numerous site specific performances including Mill Town with Stephan Koplowitz at the Bates Dance Festival in 2017, at The Yard and along the Martha’s Vineyard coastline with OceA Wilderness Dance in 2015, and at the Indiana University Art Museum in 2013 and 2014. She is the second half of Middle Space Dance, an imaginary dance company, alongside longtime collaborator and friend, Amelia Koper Heintzelman. Their work has been presented in New York, Detroit, Philadelphia, Indiana, and Massachusetts. She graduated from Indiana University in 2015 with a Bachelor of Science in Kinesiology, focused in Contemporary Dance. Leah currently resides in Easthampton, MA with her cat, Chewie, where she works and teaches at The School For Contemporary Dance & Thought and Pioneer Valley Ballet. www.middlespacedance.com
SHAKIA JOHNSON, born and raised in Springfield, Massachusetts, is a graduate of Pioneer Valley’s Performing Arts Charter High School in South Hadley, Ma and Dean College in Franklin, Ma. She received her teaching artist certificate from the National Dance Institute in New York in 2009. Johnson has choreographed and directed more than 50 hip hop, modern, African and lyrical works that have been performed at Trenton Educational Dance Institute, Rider University, the Princeton School of Ballet and the Bates Dance Festival. She has performed for numerous hip hop events and has opened for concerts by Fat Joe, Jadakiss, 112, Charlie Baltimore, Kima from “Total” and Omarion. In 2005 she choreographed a hip-hop number for the Celtics/NBA half-time show. She has toured the U.S. and abroad dancing with Face Da Phlave Entertainment and Illstyle and Peace Productions. Johnson is an alumnus of Jacob’s Pillow and Bates Dance Festival’s Young Dancers Workshop and was selected for BDF’s Emerging Choreographer program in 2006. Shakia has been teaching at the Bates Dance Festival for 4 years and spent her last summer teaching the Bates Professional Training Program and created her repertory work called, “Circle of Love”. Shakia currently teaches Hip Hop culture and dance technique at Mount Holyoke College, Smith College and Williams College.
KARINNE KEITHLEY SYERS is an interdisciplinary artist working in theater, text, sound, radio, bookmaking, and animation. She is a current resident playwright of New Dramatists. Her museum-operetta Montgomery Park, or Opulence won a New York Dance & Performance "Bessie" Award for Outstanding Production in 2011. She recently relocated to the valley after 20 years in New York City, where her original work was seen at The Chocolate Factory Theater, Incubator Arts Project, Danspace Project, and Dixon Place, and where she collaborated as a performer, sound/video designer, and librettist with Big Dance Theater, Sibyl Kempson, Young Jean Lee, David Neumann, Chris Yon, Sara Smith, Theater of a Two-Headed Calf, The Civilians, Talking Band, and many others.
JEN POLINS, SCDT’s Founding Director, is a curator, mobilizer, movement practitioner, and performance maker who has worked at the intersection of somatics, performance, and contemporary dance techniques for over twenty-five years. She holds an MFA in Dance from Hollins University/The American Dance Festival and is a 2014 MCC choreographic fellow. Jen has danced professionally in America and Europe, starting with the Joffrey, Milwaukee, and Zurich Operahouse ballet companies before embarking on a professional career in performance art and co-founding Wire Monkey Dance, with over twenty productions across America, Europe, and Asia. She specializes in rigorous improvisational practices and has worked closely with many mentors, most notably Nancy Stark Smith, Steve Paxton, and Lisa Nelson. More recently she has collaborated with Maurice Fraga, Joy Davis, Jen Nugent, Stephanie Maher, Peter Schmitz, Sarah Shelton Mann, Paul Matteson, and James Morrow. Jen is certified in Pilates, Gyrotonic, Gyrokinesis, yoga, and massage, and is guest lecturer in the Five College Dance Department, currently teaching at Amherst College. With SCDT, she maintains close collaborative relationships with the Northampton Arts Trust as the program assistant of A.P.E. @ Hawley St , San Francisco’s La Alternativa, and Boston’s New Movement Collaborative and Ponderosa TanzLand Festival. She lives in Northampton.
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