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RIFF TALKS offers the local community a chance to get up close to internationally renowned contemporary artists, offering performances, workshops, and dynamic panel discussions focused around critical themes in dance.
RIFF TALKS is an essential program of SCDT, whose mission holds an abiding respect for the tradition and history of reinvention and a resolution to continue challenging, established ideals. SCDT serves as a hub for performance art of the highest quality by connecting communities on an international scale. SCDT showcases contemporary movement training and performance practices that embrace multiplicity, arouse curiosity, and emphasize personal choice.
ARTIST BIOS:
Deborah Goffe is a dance maker, performer, educator, and curator who cultivates environments and experiences through choreographic, design, and social processes. Since its founding in 2002, the Hartford-based Scapegoat Garden has functioned as her primary vehicle for artistic and curatorial practice—a means to forge relationships between artists and communities, helping people see, create, and contribute to a greater vision of ourselves, each other, and the places we call home. This vision forms a foundation for her work in many roles, including her current day job at Trinity College where she serves Executive Director of the Austin Arts Center and Artist-in-Residence in Theater and Dance.
Karinne Keithley Syers has been making performance and satellite variations on performance out in the world since the middle-90’s, drifting between and beyond dance and theater communities and edging into scholarship, bookmaking, movie making and game design. Her thinking is grounded in dancing wherever she goes; her work almost always begins in writing. She has spent most of her life teaching and the last thirteen years being a parent. She currently teaches sixth grade English and science and co-directs the theater club at a boarding middle school for boys.
gizeh moves, teaches and performs. She is from Mexico and is currently co-existing in Ohlone territory. Dedicated to the study of being a breathing body. They recreate body stories through touch, relationship, movement and stillness to explore new paradigms of temporality, relationality and intimacy. An improviser and composer devoted to witness beauty and the cultivation of wonder and curiosity. She listens to the dialogue created from, with, and through their body and her movement practice is fluent in floor work, somatic practices and deep listening.
CURATORS
Ellie Goudie Averill
Originally from the Midwest, 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, Franklin & Marshall, and Connecticut College. She has danced professionally for Sara Shelton Mann, Susan Rethorst, Lucinda Childs, Bronwen MacArthur, Group Motion, and more. 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 ten years. She currently teaches at Amherst, Smith, and Keene State Colleges, and at the School for Contemporary Dance and Thought in Northampton, MA.
Tori Lawerence
Raised in Georgia, Tori Lawrence is a Massachusetts-based choreographer, filmmaker, and educator who creates site-specific multimedia performances and digital/analog dance films. She is a guest lecturer at Bennington College and Smith College, and was awarded the 2019-20 Artist-in-Residence and Dance Lecturer position at Middlebury College, where she taught courses in Movement & Media, Improvisation, and Contemporary Technique. Tori graduated from Franklin & Marshall College and received her MFA from the University of Iowa, where she was a recipient of the Iowa Arts Fellowship. She has recently been awarded artist residencies in Norway at Lademoen Kunstnerverksteder and USF Verftet, where she will produce new work Winter 2023. Other awarded artist residencies and fellowships include: Yaddo, Djerassi, Playa, Brunakra, Chez Bushwick, Ucross Foundation, Charlotte Street Foundation, Dance Ireland, and Budapest Workshop Foundation. She recently collaborated with choreographer Sara Shelton Mann on a performance installation with performances at Space 124 (San Francisco), Counterpulse (San Francisco), Fresh Festival @ Joe Goode Annex (San Francisco), SCDT (Northampton), Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture (San Francisco), and Dock 11 (Berlin).
Jen Polins
Jennifer Polins is a curator, mobilizer, movement practitioner, performance maker and teacher. Her work is in the service of cultivating qualities of appreciative joy and creating accessible programming focused on experimentation. Her mission is to activate imaginations, facilitate empowerment and transformation and encourage interest in the healing and creative potential of the movement arts. Jen founded The School for Contemporary Dance and Thought ( SCDT) in 2013 after completing her MFA through Hollins/ADF. SCDT connects dance practices, performances, and classes with thoughtful public conversation, encouraging and invigorating community engagement. SCDT offers an array of programming for all ages, most notably, a robust program for emerging and established movement artists, a vibrant adult education program and a unique and powerful pre professional program for teens. Central to SCDT's purpose is an abiding respect for the tradition and history of performance art and dance while continuing to challenge established concert dance ideals and contribute to the evolution of the field. SCDT prioritizes and is committed to programs that educate the general public about the creative process and to support the needs of independent artists at every stage in their careers.
Deborah Goffe is a dance maker, performer, educator, and curator who cultivates environments and experiences through choreographic, design, and social processes. Since its founding in 2002, the Hartford-based Scapegoat Garden has functioned as her primary vehicle for artistic and curatorial practice—a means to forge relationships between artists and communities, helping people see, create, and contribute to a greater vision of ourselves, each other, and the places we call home. This vision forms a foundation for her work in many roles, including her current day job at Trinity College where she serves Executive Director of the Austin Arts Center and Artist-in-Residence in Theater and Dance.
Karinne Keithley Syers has been making performance and satellite variations on performance out in the world since the middle-90’s, drifting between and beyond dance and theater communities and edging into scholarship, bookmaking, movie making and game design. Her thinking is grounded in dancing wherever she goes; her work almost always begins in writing. She has spent most of her life teaching and the last thirteen years being a parent. She currently teaches sixth grade English and science and co-directs the theater club at a boarding middle school for boys.
gizeh moves, teaches and performs. She is from Mexico and is currently co-existing in Ohlone territory. Dedicated to the study of being a breathing body. They recreate body stories through touch, relationship, movement and stillness to explore new paradigms of temporality, relationality and intimacy. An improviser and composer devoted to witness beauty and the cultivation of wonder and curiosity. She listens to the dialogue created from, with, and through their body and her movement practice is fluent in floor work, somatic practices and deep listening.
CURATORS
Ellie Goudie Averill
Originally from the Midwest, 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, Franklin & Marshall, and Connecticut College. She has danced professionally for Sara Shelton Mann, Susan Rethorst, Lucinda Childs, Bronwen MacArthur, Group Motion, and more. 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 ten years. She currently teaches at Amherst, Smith, and Keene State Colleges, and at the School for Contemporary Dance and Thought in Northampton, MA.
Tori Lawerence
Raised in Georgia, Tori Lawrence is a Massachusetts-based choreographer, filmmaker, and educator who creates site-specific multimedia performances and digital/analog dance films. She is a guest lecturer at Bennington College and Smith College, and was awarded the 2019-20 Artist-in-Residence and Dance Lecturer position at Middlebury College, where she taught courses in Movement & Media, Improvisation, and Contemporary Technique. Tori graduated from Franklin & Marshall College and received her MFA from the University of Iowa, where she was a recipient of the Iowa Arts Fellowship. She has recently been awarded artist residencies in Norway at Lademoen Kunstnerverksteder and USF Verftet, where she will produce new work Winter 2023. Other awarded artist residencies and fellowships include: Yaddo, Djerassi, Playa, Brunakra, Chez Bushwick, Ucross Foundation, Charlotte Street Foundation, Dance Ireland, and Budapest Workshop Foundation. She recently collaborated with choreographer Sara Shelton Mann on a performance installation with performances at Space 124 (San Francisco), Counterpulse (San Francisco), Fresh Festival @ Joe Goode Annex (San Francisco), SCDT (Northampton), Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture (San Francisco), and Dock 11 (Berlin).
Jen Polins
Jennifer Polins is a curator, mobilizer, movement practitioner, performance maker and teacher. Her work is in the service of cultivating qualities of appreciative joy and creating accessible programming focused on experimentation. Her mission is to activate imaginations, facilitate empowerment and transformation and encourage interest in the healing and creative potential of the movement arts. Jen founded The School for Contemporary Dance and Thought ( SCDT) in 2013 after completing her MFA through Hollins/ADF. SCDT connects dance practices, performances, and classes with thoughtful public conversation, encouraging and invigorating community engagement. SCDT offers an array of programming for all ages, most notably, a robust program for emerging and established movement artists, a vibrant adult education program and a unique and powerful pre professional program for teens. Central to SCDT's purpose is an abiding respect for the tradition and history of performance art and dance while continuing to challenge established concert dance ideals and contribute to the evolution of the field. SCDT prioritizes and is committed to programs that educate the general public about the creative process and to support the needs of independent artists at every stage in their careers.
RIFF TALKS TRIBUE to STEVE, NANCY, KATHLEEN and PETER
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Past RIFF participants:
Peter Schmitz, Andrea Olsen, Nancy Stark Smith, Stephanie Maher, Steve Paxton, Lisa Nelson, Otto Ramstad, K.J. Holmes, Daniel Lepkoff, Olive Bierenga, Chris Aiken, Kathy Couch, Yoshiko Chuma, Peter Pleyer, Wendy Perron, Wendy Woodson, Tara Aisha Willis, Jaamil Olawale Kosoko, Cassie Peterson, Joy Miriama Smith, Sara Smith, Aretha Aoki, and Dana Caspersen Tom Viccanti, Deborah Goffe, Katie Pyle.
Past RIFF TALKS
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