Dance-Making and Technique (ages 8-12) with Kate Martel and Jen Polins
Thursdays, 4:00-5:00p
in the Work Room Theater - 33 Hawley Street, Northampton
Session 1: January 27-March 28, 2022
Session 2: March 29-June 6, 2022
***class will be limited to 10 dancers!
Masks and Social Distancing required!
MAKING THINGS / MAKING MORE THINGS:
This movement class consists of a Modern Dance warm up followed by a choreography lab. During our choreography lab, we will focus on using objects and costumes as duet partners and source material. We will experiment with various choreographic methodologies, both uncovering themes through physical research and allowing predetermined concepts to drive choreographic inquiry. This class is for all levels of experience.
Thursdays, 4:00-5:00p
in the Work Room Theater - 33 Hawley Street, Northampton
Session 1: January 27-March 28, 2022
Session 2: March 29-June 6, 2022
***class will be limited to 10 dancers!
Masks and Social Distancing required!
MAKING THINGS / MAKING MORE THINGS:
This movement class consists of a Modern Dance warm up followed by a choreography lab. During our choreography lab, we will focus on using objects and costumes as duet partners and source material. We will experiment with various choreographic methodologies, both uncovering themes through physical research and allowing predetermined concepts to drive choreographic inquiry. This class is for all levels of experience.
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KATE MARTEL, MFA, M.AmSAT
Kate Martel is a dance artist and Alexander Technique teacher based in Western Massachusetts. She enjoyed fifteen years dancing in NYC with choreographers Laura Peterson, Nora Stephens, Rebecca Brooks, Luis Lara Malvacias and Sarah White-Ayon, among others. During this time she trained in the Alexander Technique with master teacher Ann Rodiger, graduating from the Balance Arts Center in 2017. Her choreography has been presented by SCDT (WIP), Women in Motion, Movement Research at Judson Church, Center for Performance Research and Purdue University. She has been on faculty at Mason Gross School of the Arts, Adelphi University and Western Connecticut State University. In addition, she has earned a BA from Goucher College in Dance and Education (2002) and an MFA in Performing Arts from University of Wisconsin Milwaukee (2014). Kate has been a collaborator with Barbie Diewald Choreography since 2017 and is currently on faculty at Westfield State University. She teaches AT privately and in the Somatics Series at SCDT, as well as teaching ballet and modern throughout the Pioneer Valley. |
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JENNIFER POLINS
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,and the director of Hatchery at SCDT. She holds an MFA in dance from Hollins University/The American Dance Festival and is a 2014 MCC choreographic fellow. Jen is also an assistant programmer for A.P.E.@Hawley. 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.
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,and the director of Hatchery at SCDT. She holds an MFA in dance from Hollins University/The American Dance Festival and is a 2014 MCC choreographic fellow. Jen is also an assistant programmer for A.P.E.@Hawley. 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.
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