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video by Tyler Gorman and HATCHERY- Hatchery Teen Dance Company in BIG TIME- May 2023

YOUNG DANCER FILMAKING WORKSHOP

AUGUST 1, 2023

​MONDAY- WEDNESDAYS from 
(options for addition workshops with Sara Shelton Mann 12PM-3PM and/or Shakia the Key 5PM-8PM)
33 HAWLEY ST, NORTHAMPTON, MA
​sliding scale $75-$125
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Unique in the Pioneer Valley, SCDT offers innovative dance programming for teens with training in contemporary dance forms such as Modern, Improvisation, Contemporary Ballet, Hip Hop, African Diaspora forms, Composition and Dance Production. SCDT's summer dance camp is a good fit for you if you love to dance, move, create, and perform in a non-traditional and non-competitive environment.

SCDT accommodates young artists at a range of levels, where creativity, curiosity and enthusiasm is central, and company members become articulate, dynamic and skilled performers and directors. SCDT's Dance Camp Intensive aims to cultivate personal artistic growth, while striving for excellence in the arts. Teen artists are offered opportunities in diverse styles of dance and performance art that challenge their abilities, while inviting their own creative process to emerge. It is our commitment to recognize that each young artist brings their own unique artistic integrity to the company. Each artist not only feels valued, but is valued.​


Scholarships available, email [email protected].
TEACHER BIOS:

K Adler is a movement and performance artist whose work ranges from highly theatrical to intimately pedestrian using the body as a vessel for poetry. They self-produce work and engage with a wide range of interdisciplinary arts with the support of Eggtooth Productions and SCD&T. With a BFA in Modern Dance, their practice is guided by a variety of techniques from classical ballet to butoh. Their work in the field of food and fermentation informs their use of duration and time with improvisation as the heart of their artistry; a constant conversation with presence.
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Jen Polins ( Founding Artistic Director SCDT and Hatchery)
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. Jen specializes  in combining dance technique and composition with rigorous improvisational  practices, influenced by many mentors, most notably- Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen,  Nancy Stark Smith, Steve Paxton, and Lisa Nelson. Jen is certified in Pilates,  Gyrotonic, Gyrokinesis, Yoga, and Massage and studied Body Mind Centering for  over 10 years. Jen's ongoing somatic studies deeply affect her curation, teaching  and making. Jen is guest lecturer in the Five College Dance department and creates  work and guest teaches in many regional colleges and universities. With SCDT, Jen  works collaboratively with A.P.E.@ Hawley, and the Ponderosa TanzLand Festival. She has collaborated most  recently with Jen Nugent, Lisa Nelson, late and great Kathleen Hermesdorf.

Alexander Davis is a dance maker and performer based somewhere between Boston and Northampton as he works his way through the MFA program at Smith College. Davis has performed and presented with organizations across Boston, including Ryan Landry’s Gold Dust Orphans, Boston Lyric Opera, Boston Children’s Chorus, Global Arts Live, ART, Company One and Improv Asylum/Laugh Boston. A former company member with Urbanity Dance, Davis was the director of their Summer Choreographer Intensive Program. As a choreographer and fiber artist, Davis received grant and residency support from The Studios at Mass MoCA, The Boston Foundation, Urbanity Dance, New England Foundation for the Arts and The Theatre Offensive. Recently, Davis was awarded an artist fellowship from the City of Boston. With collaborator Joy Davis (The Davis Sisters), Davis received a Bessie Schonberg [Boston] Choreographic Residency from The Yard, Creative Residency at The Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Studio@550, Chelsea Theater Works, Run of the Mills at The Boston Center for the Arts, The Croft Residency and the Bates Dance Festival. Davis assisted choreographer Monica Bill Barnes on Greta Gerwig’s 2019 film adaptation of Little Women, which received a 2019 Academy Award.


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.
PHOTOS BY ANNA MAYNARD