The Playground: A Workshop in Something New A program produced through SCDT’s EXCHANGE program Sundays 11-12:00pm The Workroom at 33 Hawley St A workshop series for young artists ages 13-18 interested in performance art of any kind (dance, acting, poetry, music, etc). Learn how to expand your perspective, skillset, and artistic voice through the teaching and mentorship of our rotating faculty of professional dancers, actors, and musicians. This is an opportunity to gather artmaking tools from a variety of experiences and meet other young artists interested in interdisciplinary collaboration. |
Sunday, May 5, 2-4 PM
Cameron McKinney: Master Class in Nagare Technique While rooted in a contemporary floorwork-based sensibility, the class combines the grace of modern with the speed and fluidity of streetdance styles and capoeira. The class activates oppositional forces and contrasting sensations to achieve fluid transitions in and out of the floor. Phrases will involve every part of the body -- whether in the air or on the ground. The class focuses on how to move from smoothly high to low, and on how to rediscover "the down" through the floorwork-oriented aspects of house dance, capoeira, and contemporary dance. By shifting the focus from an internal dialogue to creating movement that, in its own physicality, can tell a story by itself, the class will delve deeper into the cathartic potential of sweat and exhaustion, while offering a new and active method of expression. Cameron McKinney is a New York City-based choreographer and educator. As the Artistic Director of Kizuna Dance, he uses the performing arts to further connections between the American and Japanese cultures. In addition to being both a U.S.-Japan Friendship Commission Creative Artist Fellow and an Asian Cultural Council Individual Fellow, he has been awarded choreography fellowships from The School at Jacob’s Pillow, Princeton University, and the Alvin Ailey Foundation. He has presented work and taught in twenty states and four countries, including in the U.S. Ambassador’s Residence in Tokyo. He has received over 30 commissions from arts institutions across the country and abroad. His professorial credits include Princeton University, Montclair University, and NYU Tisch, among others. Each year, he organizes Kizuna Dance’s Open Intensive, a week of day-long intensives made entirely free for all participants. His 2024 teaching tour will feature workshops in the UK, Belgium, France, and Germany. Cameron studied with Nancy Stark Smith in 2013 at the Bates Dance Festival and just celebrated the 10th anniversary of Kizuna Dance.. See Cameron's Instagram. PART OF FEET TO THE FLOOR FESTIVAL- SEE DETAILS HERE! www.apearts.org/upcoming.html Photo by Joseph Lambert |
WIP XXIV - WORKS IN PROGRESS- Improvisation and Performance
Friday, March 10 at 7:00pm 33 Hawley Street, Northampton, MA in the Workroom Theater WIP XXIV May 10th 2024 Artists: Hannah Ruth Brothers (VT) Michelle Erard (MA) Laila J. Franklin (Boston, MA and Washington, DC) Madelyn Sher (MA) Samara "Mère" Ternoir (MA) Lailye Weidman (MA) ...... WIP IS PART OF THE IMPROVISATION AND PERFORMANCE FESTIVAL! CHECK OUT LINK BELOW |
SCDT PRESENTS
IMPROVISATION and PERFORMANCE FESTIVAL special edition MAY 10-11, 2024 WIP, SPECIAL WORKSHOPS and RIFF TALKS The Northampton Arts Trust WORKROOM @ 33 Hawley St, NORTHAMPTON MA Celebrating 10 years of RIFF and the legacies of Steve Paxton, Kathleen Hermesdorf, Nancy Stark Smith and Peter Schmitz FULL WEEKEND EVENT SCHEDULE all events at 33 Hawley Street in the Workroom Theater! WORKSHOP with K.J. Holmes:"Every cell in your body knows where down is" (Steve Paxton) FRIDAY, MAY 10, 10-12 PM WIP XXIV FRIDAY, MAY 10, 7:00 PM BUY WIP TICKETS HERE WORKSHOP with Joya Powell IMPROVISATION: DIASPORIC MODALITIES SATURDAY, MAY 11, 10-11:30 AM WORKSHOP with mayfield brooks WAVES SATURDAY, MAY 11, 12-2 PM RIFF TALKS_09 IMPROVISATION & PERFORMANCE Daniel Lepkoff, K.J. Holmes, Joya Powell and mayfield brooks SATURDAY, MAY 11 7:00PM |