SCDT SPRING 2022 SEASON
For the safety of our artists, venue staff and our community as a whole we will be requiring proof of vaccination for admittance to all shows at SCDT until further notice. Results from a negative COVID test will NOT be accepted for entry. In addition, masks are required to be worn at all times while at the venue.
Please bring your vaccination card, or a photo of it. We encourage anyone who has yet to be vaccinated to get their shots as soon as possible.
Please bring your vaccination card, or a photo of it. We encourage anyone who has yet to be vaccinated to get their shots as soon as possible.
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SATURDAY APRIL 30, 2022 | EXCHANGE Dances from the heart Presented in collaboration with The Northampton Arts Council, SCDT and APE@Hawley Saturday, April 30th ***POSTPONED TO SEPTEMBER 17, 2022*** 4:00 PM Showtime, doors open at 3:30 $10 in the Workroom at 33 Hawley Street, Northampton MA Featuring performances from Lauren Horn, Rebecca Pappas,Tyler Rai and Tori Lawerence/Ellie Goudie-Avril. The artists will share current works in response to the fluctuations and challenges in our present worlds, including dance, theater, and performance art. RSVP: on Facebook |
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SATURDAY May 7, 2022 | HUT XXXIV | 8 PM Featuring LOCULUS: MOVEMENT FRANCIS LO WORDS PUSSY VISION: MUSIC ... HUT RETURNS! This interdisciplinary performance series is presented by SCDT and co-curated by dancer Jennifer Polins, writer Jay Keery Weingarten, and sound artist Jake Meginsky. HUT showcases three artists in three short sets in an evening of music, words, and movement. WELCOME BACK TO HUT! WE ARE NOW IN OUR NEW HOME AT THE WORKROOM THEATER AT 33 HAWLEY STREET, NORTHAMPTON MA! The space is 3000 square feet with 30 foot ceiling and plenty of room to social distance. $10 online/ $15 at the door PRE REGISTRATION RECOMENDED, LIMITED SEATING. MASKS AND PROOF OF VACCINATION REQUIRED. ... SCDT is pleased to welcome the ELEVENTH season of HUT—the interdisciplinary performance series presented by SCDT and co-curated by dancer Jennifer Polins, writer Jay Keery Weingarten, and sound artist Jake Meginsky. HUT showcases three artists in three short sets in an evening of music, words, and movement. HUT's roster of local and internationally recognized contemporary artists including among others Caliph Ali, Steve Baczkowski, Shura Baryshnikov, Chris Corsano, Joy Davis, Paul Flaherty, Jacob Fried, Jenifer Gelineau, Steve Gunn, Sean D. Henry-Smith, Kathleen Hermesdorf, Ben Hersey, K.J. Holmes, Jaamil Olawale Kosoko, Matt Krefting, Jason Lesceleet, Emily Lukasewski, V. Manuscript, Carole Maso, Bill Nace, Samara Lubelski, Cori Olinghouse, Natalia Panzer, Andrea Pensado, Jennifer Nugent, Vic Rawlings, Zach Rowden, Luke Stewart, Mariana Valencia, Laura Warman, and Wendy Woodson.... Questions? Email us at infoscdt@gmail.com |
MAY 7, 2022 | THE SWITCHING
a workshop facilitated by Jumatatu Poe
Saturday, May 7, 2022
10:30am-1:30pm
In Person in the Workroom Studio Theater at 33 Hawley St.
Sliding Scale $25-50
I like to imagine that this practice in performance improvisation, The Switching, is a strategy in immediate evolution, rapid-fire shifting, sublime learning of and in the moment. I began this practice while dealing with my curiosities around a question I obsessed over: “Can I change myself?”
Our practice will deal with strategic essentialization – through the immediate re-design of ourselves into other creatures, or other ways of being our innate creatures – and working with immediately identifying the restrictions/limitations that are inescapable. It’s round about, and ideally will come full circle.
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MAY 8, 2022 | WIP - WORKS IN PROGRESS
SUNDAY, MAY 8, 2022 4:30PM PROOF OF VACCINATION AND MASKS REQUIRED MAY 8 Artists: Eleanor Goudie-Averill and Jenna Riegel (MA) Angelina Hoffman and Fiona Spiegler (MA and NYC) Shannon Mockli (OR) Caitlin Canty and Noli Rosen (MA) EmmaGrace Skove-Epes (NYC) where? At our NEW SPACE- 33 HAWLEY STREET, The Work Room Theater! how? This performance will take place LIVE! Please register to receive the link to attend. Tickets are $5-10. what? The School for Contemporary Dance and Thought presents WIP (works-in-progress), a performance series that showcases developing movement-based works on Sunday afternoons. WIP values sharing research and experimentation, rather than presenting finished works, and welcomes applications from emerging and established artists. The curatorial team choosing WIP choreographers is composed of fellow dance artists located in the Pioneer Valley. We are looking to create performances showcasing a diverse range of established and emerging artists, as well as those local to the valley and beyond. Students are eligible to apply, but priority will be given to artists who are not currently enrolled in a degree-granting program. Preference will also be given to those who have not yet shown in the WIP series. |
MAY 22- June 10, 2022 | SCDT COACHING PROJECT
Vanessa Anspaugh
Workshop Dates: May 22- June 10
Wed, Thurs, Fri 9-12 & Sundays 2-7:30
All Participants Required for Rehearsal hours.
Optional Coaching Sessions Mondays & Tuesdays 9-12
Friday June 10, Showing 7pm
$150-$250- working artist discount
$250- $500- financially stable
Join Vanessa Anspaugh in this unique workshop intensive: The Coaching Project. Anspaugh will work with participants on two fronts; creating work on dancers for her current piece entitled, Late Mournings, and the other as a one-on-one adviser/mentor. This is an opportunity for both the dancer and or dance-maker to have a more intimate experience of Vanessa’s creative process and the rigorous experience of being a collaborating dancer in part of a quickly constructed section of professional piece. Late Mournings will premiere at New York Live Arts in NYC in November and participants will be credited in Anspaugh’s program as contributing dancers.
Anspaugh is a nationally known and respected choreographer who loves making dances with individuals who are open-minded, risk takers and love the creative process. Various technical backgrounds are welcome, and a friendly attitude and a willingness to get lost is required. Learn more about Vanessa's work by visiting her website at vanessaanspaugh.com
Personal Narrative Movement Workshop with Judith Wombwell and Sayer Mansfield
Sunday, May 22, 2022
1:00-5:30pm
In Person in the Workroom Studio Theater at 33 Hawley St. Proof of vaccination and masks required at SCDT.
In this workshop we will explore personal narratives through movement and story. Participants will be led through movement games, physical warm-ups, writing prompts, drawing, music & life mapping, all as tools to explore their unique experience and story. The workshop is designed to promote individual and collective health, well-being and agency through dance and creativity; rooting individuals into their own bodies while connecting them to each other. This workshop is geared to all bodies, no matter previous experience with movement. Required: a desire to share and connect in a respectful, safe environment.
Sunday, May 22, 2022
1:00-5:30pm
In Person in the Workroom Studio Theater at 33 Hawley St. Proof of vaccination and masks required at SCDT.
In this workshop we will explore personal narratives through movement and story. Participants will be led through movement games, physical warm-ups, writing prompts, drawing, music & life mapping, all as tools to explore their unique experience and story. The workshop is designed to promote individual and collective health, well-being and agency through dance and creativity; rooting individuals into their own bodies while connecting them to each other. This workshop is geared to all bodies, no matter previous experience with movement. Required: a desire to share and connect in a respectful, safe environment.
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SAT JUNE 4|HATCHERY TEEN DANCE COMPANY
in READY TO CONNECT TWO SHOWS in ONE DAY! Saturday June 4 @ 2 PM with the HATCHLINGS Saturday June 4 @ 8 PM READY TO CONNECTis a celebration of dance and represents the essential voices of young artists during these times of struggle, change, and growth in our world. Featuring works by professional guests: ANGELICA POLK ELLIE GOUDIE-AVERILL AMELIE STEVENS Featuring works by Hatchery members: STELLA TEMPLIN (SENIOR) MARIA DEAN (SENIOR) OLIVIA HANN ANA FOREST MASIE TUCK EDY SAVAGE/ MEIKE MATTESON YELENA CALDENARO NOA TOVAH BOUCHER/ MORGAN BROWN-MCNEIL CHARLIE MARK |
SCDT PAST EVENTS:
2021-2022 FALL/WINTER SEASONS IN REVIEW
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The School For Contemporary Dance & Thought and A.P.E presents
FINISHED WAITING by Bread and Puppet SUNDAY, MARCH 20 6 PM Eastern Time LIVE in the WORKROOM/THEATER at 33 Hawley Street, Northampton MA Masks and Vaccination REQUIRED Bread & Puppet comes to 33 Hawley Street in Northampton, MA on Sunday, March 20th with Finished Waiting, a new show created this winter by B&P director, Peter Schumann and the storied Vermont troupe of puppeteers, carpenters, bus drivers, musicians, dancers, agitators and bread-bakers – many of whom do all of the above in the process of inventing Bread & Puppet's aesthetically iconic and politically plainspoken shows and bringing them to audiences far and wide. Finished Waiting is a show for this moment of political, social, ecological and epidemiological rupture and uncertainty, a moment in which many feel the seduction of a stance of waiting: waiting for the pandemic to be over, for better leaders to be elected, for actions to be taken by the powerful to respond to ecological catastrophe, for families to be reunited or seemingly eternal wars to end. Bread & Puppet foments such practices of rising in the provocatively quotidian terms of "Domestic Resurrection" – under the banner of which aesthetic and spiritual sublimity are not at odds with political stridency and the rigors of traditional household chores. In Finished Waiting, Bread & Puppet invites audiences throughout the Northeast to harken to these practices of uprising, and take heart from them – as we all participate in the satisfaction of another, equally fundamental kind of waiting: the waiting for spring's arrival after a long winter. With this show, Bread & Puppet seems to call on us to recognize how nature itself shows us what is possible and what can arise, when we abandon waiting and embrace transformation. According to Schumann the show will star "the clock and it's customers, skies, cities, mountains, forward dancers, backward dancers, a stop officer, and an eye divinity who teaches seeing to non-suspecting eyes." After the performance Bread & Puppet will serve its free sourdough rye bread with aioli, and Bread & Puppet’s “Cheap Art” – books, posters, postcards, pamphlets and banners from the Bread & Puppet Press – will be for sale. |
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MARCH 13, 2022 | WIP - WORKS IN PROGRESS
SUNDAY, MARCH 13, 2022 4:30PM MARCH 13 Artists: K Adler Alex Davis Makenna Finch Hunter Linscott The School for Contemporary Dance and Thought presents WIP (works-in-progress), a performance series that showcases developing movement-based works on Sunday afternoons. WIP values sharing research and experimentation, rather than presenting finished works, and welcomes applications from emerging and established artists. The curatorial team choosing WIP choreographers is composed of fellow dance artists located in the Pioneer Valley. We are looking to create performances showcasing a diverse range of established and emerging artists, as well as those local to the valley and beyond. |
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HUT XVIII
Performance x3. Three artists, three genres, three short sets.About this eventHUT XXXIII • MARCH 5 • 8pm Featuring SIMON THOMAS-TRAIN,/CLAUDIA-LYNN RIGHTMIRE MOVEMENT CAROLINE RAINER WORDS CHRIS CORSANO MUSIC ... WELCOME BACK TO HUT! WE ARE NOW IN OUR NEW HOME AT THE WORKROOM THEATER AT 33 HAWLEY STREET, NORTHAMPTON MA! The space is 3000 square feet with 30 foot ceiling and plenty of room to social distance. $10 online/ $15 at the door PRE REGISTRATION RECOMENDED, LIMITED SEATING. MASKS AND PROOF OF VACCINATION REQUIRED. ... |
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NOV 20, 2021 | Dance Film: Image Design + Camera Movement WITH TORI LAWERENCE, in collaboration with Vermont Dance Alliance & SCDT SATURDAY Nov 20, 2021 3:30pm-6:30pm in the WORKROOM MASKS and PROOF OF VACCINATION FOR ALL! This workshop will explore formal and conceptual elements of design in cinematography within experimental-based works. As possibilities of dance become amplified through cinema, how is the continuity of movement, which is natural to performing live, considered and adjusted as the body becomes eternally archived in time and space? This workshop will explore formal and conceptual elements of design in cinematography within experimental-based works. We’ll gain proficiency in the technical tools used for framing movement, measuring light, shot composition, camera movement, and shooting methods as they collaborate with the performative body NOV 21, 2021 | WIP - WORKS IN PROGRESS SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 2021 4:30PM November 21st Artists: Louis DeVaughan Nelson aka DeVO (NY) Mia Martelli (NY) Nona Monahin (MA) Kate Tarlow Morgan (NY0 Cat Wagner and Kelly Silliman (MA) MASKS and PROOF OF VACCINATION FOR ALL! WIP! SCDT's works-in-progress series showcasing developing movement-based works on Sunday afternoons. WIP values sharing research and experimentation, rather than finished works, provides artists with audience feedback to assist in their development of the work, and aims to form connections with local and regional dance makers. Questions? Email us at infoscdt@gmail.com |
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DEC 4, 2021 | HUT XXXI SATURDAY, DECEMBER 4, 2021 8PM Artists: Jules Skloot: Movement Margot Doualhy: Words Julie Bodian: Sound MASKS and PROOF OF VACCINATION FOR ALL! HUT RETURNS! This interdisciplinary performance series is presented by SCDT and co-curated by dancer Jennifer Polins, writer Jay Keery Weingarten, and sound artist Jake Meginsky. HUT showcases three artists in three short sets in an evening of music, words, and movement. Questions? Email us at infoscdt@gmail.com |
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DEC 18-19 2021 | HATCHERY WINTER SHOWCASE DECEMBER 18, 6:00p DECEMBER 19, 2:00p MASKS and PROOF OF VACCINATION FOR ALL! The School For Contemporary Dance & Thought (SCDT) presents world premiers of new work by The Hatchery Company and guests Lauren Horn and Vanessa Anspaugh. TIMELESS is a celebration of dance and represents the essential voices of young artists during these times of struggle, change, and growth in our world. Featuring works by Hatchery members: ARIN ANDREWS RHIANNON CAMPBELL MARIA DEAN EDY SAVAGE GRETA HOUGEN-SMITH STELLA TEMPLIN Questions? Email us at infoscdt@gmail.com |
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SEPT 24, 2021| MOTION STATE FILM FESTIVAL PREMIERE
SEASON 4! FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 24 at 7PM Eastern Time ONLINE ON ZOOM! 7 PM FILM SCREENING, 8:00 PM ARTIST TALK LEARN MORE>>> The Motion State Dance Film Series (formerly Kicking & Screening) is the only year-long, traveling short film festival in New England devoted to showcasing the diversity of contemporary creative voices exploring the medium of choreography for the camera. By taking the festival “on the road” and into non-traditional film venues, such as art galleries, music halls, performing arts theaters, and university classrooms, the Motion State Dance Film Series seeks to expose the films and filmmakers to new audiences. Every screening is followed by a public Q & A with the curators. Questions? Email us at infoscdt@gmail.com Funded in part by the New England States Touring program of the New England Foundation for the Arts, made possible with funding from the National Endowment for the Arts Regional Touring Program and the six New England state arts agencies. |
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SATURDAY SEPT 25, 2021 | SMALL MOVES, BIG PICTURE
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 25 at 7PM Eastern Time At the WORKROOM/THEATER at 33 Hawley Street, Northampton MA Small Moves, Big Picture is a unique celebration of the dancing body and choreographic thinking, sharing the work of 11 artists across an evening of intimate, in person performances, and projected films. with : Alex Davis, Lauren Horn, Andy Russ, Jen Polins- Liz Tonne, Ellie Goudie- Averill, Beau Hancock, Tori Lawerence, Betsy Miller, and more! LIMITED SEATING! PRE REGISTRATION HIGHLY RECOMMENDED Questions? Email us at infoscdt@gmail.com Funded in part by the New England States Touring program of the New England Foundation for the Arts, made possible with funding from the National Endowment for the Arts Regional Touring Program and the six New England state arts agencies. 
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Sept 30-OCT 3, 2021|FEET TO FLOOR FESTIVAL
Full Details HERE A FUNDRAISING FESTIVAL honoring dance artist Nancy Stark Smith and creating a resilient floor for dancing in Workroom/Theater at 33 Hawley Street. The 3800-square-foot, multi-arts space, with programming by A.P.E. and SCDT is a project of the Northampton Community Arts Trust. Featuring classes, workshops, performances and events with artists Laurie Sanders, Doug Anderson, Trish Crapo, Rosalyn Driscoll, Paul Jacobs, Margaret Lloyd, Henry Lyman, Richard Michelson, Missy-Marie Montgomery, Bill O’Connell, Anne Woodhull, Shayla-Vie Jenkins, Cameron McKinney, Paul Matteson, Andrea Olsen, Peter Schmitz, and Simon Thomas-Train, Claudia-Lynn Rightmire, HATCHERY, and Rachel Jenkins, Miguel Castillo, and MORE! PRE REGISTRATION REQUIRED|LIVE EVENTS HAVE LIMITED SEATING Questions? Email us at infoscdt@gmail.com |
