WELCOME TO SCDT!

We are an organization run by dance artists committed to creating a space to serve each other, the Pioneer Valley dance community, and the New England arts community at large.

​Here are the people that make it happen.

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​STAFF

JENNIFER POLINS: Founding Director of SCDT & Hatchery

KATE MARTEL: Youth Program Director & Hatchery Co-Director

CHLOE LONDON: Assistant to the Director & Exchange Coordinator

TYLER GORMAN: Hatchery Pit Band Director

CURRENT TEACHERS
REPRESENTING THE FALL/WINTER '23-'24 SEASON

MAYA LALIBERTE: Countertechnique, Creative Movement & Adult Open Modern

VANESSA ANSPAUGH: Sweaty Somatic Sunday Sanga

KATHERINE KAIN: Dancemaking & Technique + Hatchery Teaching Artist

ELLIE GOUDIE-AVERILL: Open Adult Contemporary Ballet & Intro to Ballet Workshop

JENNIFER POLINS: Open Adult Contemporary Ballet, Contemplative Practice, Hatchery Teaching Artist, & Adult Open Modern

MICHELLE MARROQUIN: Open Contemporary Adult Ballet

KAT ADLER: Adult Open Modern

Open Adult Contemporary Ballet & Hatchery Teaching Artist

CHLOE LONDON: Adult Open Modern & Hatchery Teaching Artist

MARY BETH BROOKER: Hatchery Teaching Artist

GUEST ARTISTS
​REPRESENTING THE FALL/WINTER '23-'24 SEASON

SHAKIA JOHNSON: Hatchery Guest Artist

JOYA POWELL: Hatchery Guest Artist

​BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Jen Polins, President
Lesley Farlow, Secretary
Bill Kulas, Treasurer

BOARD MEMBERS
 
Wendy Woodson, William Kulas, Michelle Kunitz, Sakina Ibrahim, Tori Lawerence, Jared Williams, Lesley Farlow, Sara Smith, Vanessa Anspaugh, Mary Beth Brooker

PAST TEACHERS