photo by Tori Lawerence
SCDT's Hawley Street Ballet
Ballet for the People
Teens and Adults
Wednesdays, 9:00-10:30AM
and
Saturdays, 10:30-12PM
REGISTER HERE FOR TEEN/ADULT BALLET
Youth
Tuesdays, 5:00-6:15PM ( ages 11-19 )
REGISTER HERE FOR YOUTH BALLET
INSTRUCTORS: Kate Martel, Jennifer Polins and Ellie Goudie- Averill
IN PERSON at 33 Hawley Street! In the beautiful and safe Workroom Theater
$5 - $25+ sliding scale
Please register for classes below. Classes are limited to 15 dancers. Please bring proof of vaccination.
Wednesdays, 9:00-10:30AM
and
Saturdays, 10:30-12PM
REGISTER HERE FOR TEEN/ADULT BALLET
Youth
Tuesdays, 5:00-6:15PM ( ages 11-19 )
REGISTER HERE FOR YOUTH BALLET
INSTRUCTORS: Kate Martel, Jennifer Polins and Ellie Goudie- Averill
IN PERSON at 33 Hawley Street! In the beautiful and safe Workroom Theater
$5 - $25+ sliding scale
Please register for classes below. Classes are limited to 15 dancers. Please bring proof of vaccination.
Hawley Street Ballet has been long in the making-- Jen Polins, Kate Martel, and Ellie Goudie-Averill have each had life long journeys as professional ballet dancers and have been training since they were very young. Their love for the form has kept them all engaged in the art of ballet, and their love for teaching movement and patterns to others has brought them together in Northampton at 33 Hawley Street in 2021. These three incredible teachers are joining forces and offer these holistic, healing approaches to classical and contemporary ballet to YOU!
Students will be invited into contemporary approaches to ballet techniques that include kindness, rigor, coordination, curiosity, and specificity. Together, we will deepen physical exploration and expand knowledge of movement vocabulary. In these classes, dancers will learn and increase familiarity with ballet terminology, and apply anatomical information for maximized freedom within form, function, and joy.
Students will be invited into contemporary approaches to ballet techniques that include kindness, rigor, coordination, curiosity, and specificity. Together, we will deepen physical exploration and expand knowledge of movement vocabulary. In these classes, dancers will learn and increase familiarity with ballet terminology, and apply anatomical information for maximized freedom within form, function, and joy.
Ellie Goudie-Averill is a dance artist and educator who works with dancers of all ages on technique and performance. Since graduating with her MFA in Dance Performance from the University of Iowa, she has served as a professor at Temple University, Bucknell University, the University of Kansas and Franklin & Marshall College. In the past, she has danced professionally for Susan Rethorst, Lucinda Childs, Bronwen MacArthur, and Group Motion Multimedia Dance Theater. Ellie is a regular collaborator and dancer with Tori Lawrence + Co. in dance films and site-specific works and has been with the company for nine years. She currently teaches Ballet at Connecticut College and at School for Contemporary Dance and Thought/Hawley Street Ballet in Northampton, MA. Ellie's dance reviews and other writings have appeared online at thINKingDANCE and BAC Stories.
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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.
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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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