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MAYDANCE: NEW WORKS #3
MAYDANCE: New Works by Aretha Aoki, Katie Martin and Jennifer Polins
Saturday, May 20, 2017
8:00pm
SCDT Studios, 25 Main Street 4th floor, Northampton MA (across from Strong Avenue)
www.scdtnoho.com
MAYDANCE is a three-week performance festival showcasing the dynamic local performance artists who energize The School for Contemporary Dance and Thought (SCDT).
Aretha Aoki's You, newborn is both topography and transformation, an iceberg, bodies as extensions and bodies on the verge of disappearance. The work is performed by Aokis Bowdoin College Students.
Katie Martin's Quartet elucidates a tension between physical presence as both wild and refined, as both human subject and aesthetic entity, and features former Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company members and Bessie Award-winning performers Paul Matteson and Jennifer Nugent and SCDTs current Artist-in Residence Kate Seethaler. This program is supported in part by a grant from the Northampton Arts Council, a local agency which is supported by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency.
Exquisite Corpse is a collage of Interpretations of a figure. The work is co-created by Jennifer Polins with choreographers Robyn Coady, Barbie Diewald, Scotty Hardwig, Paul Matteson, Jennifer Nugent, Peter Schmitz, Wendy Woodson, and young dancers Lila Gaffney and Edy Savage.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS:
ARETHA AOKI is a choreographer, performer, and Assistant Professor of Dance at Bowdoin College. Her current research is an exploration of the body as a medium for the residue of family history. Aretha's work has been presented at various venues throughout New York City, New England, and Canada. As a performer, she has collaborated with Emily Johnson/Catalyst Dance for over seven years. She has also worked with robbinschilds, Rebecca Serrell Cyr, devynn emory, Vanessa Anspaugh, Heather Kravas, Juliette Mapp, Daria Fain, Maura Donohue, Elizabeth Ward, Martin Lanz, Faye Driscoll, Lisa DAmour & Katie Pearl, and many others. Her writing has been published in Contact Quarterly, where she was Associate Editor for three years. She was a co-curator of the 2016 Movement Research Spring Festival Hand Written Note(s). arethaaoki.wordpress.com
KATIE MARTIN Katie Martin is a choreographer, performer, teacher, and recipient of the national Jacob K. Javits Fellowship in Dance. She has presented and performed her choreography throughout New York City and across the country, including at Joyce SoHo, Dance Theater Workshop, Danspace Project, Symphony Space, the Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (NY), The Neurosciences Institute (CA), the New England Complex Systems Institute (MA), the Flynn Center for the Performing Arts (VT) and A.P.E. Gallery (MA), as well as at numerous college and university performance venues. Her work has been supported by such organizations as the Jerome Robbins Foundation, National Performance Network, Bumper Foundation, Massachusetts Cultural Council, Vermont Arts Council, and Northampton Arts Council. Katie received a BA in Dance at Bennington College and a MFA in Choreography and Dance Performance as a Teaching Fellow and Gretchen Moran Fellow at Smith College. She continues to present and perform her work widely and is currently a guest artist and on the dance faculty throughout the Five College Dance Department and at the School for Contemporary Dance & Thought.
JENNIFER POLINS, founding director of SCDT and STUDIO4, is a curator, mobilizer, movement practitioner and performance maker, bridging somatics, performance practices, and contemporary dance techniques for over 25 years. Jen holds an MFA in dance from Hollins University/The American Dance Festival and is a 2014 Massachusetts Cultural Council choreographic fellow. 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 is certified in Pilates, Gyrotonic®, Gyrokinesis®, Yoga and Massage. She is guest lecturer in the Five College Dance department currently teaching UMASS Amherst. She is the co-founder of Wire Monkey Dance, which produced over 20 productions throughout America, Europe and Asia. Video link- https://vimeopro.com/user2635256/jen-polins-choreography
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25 Main Street
Northampton, MA 01060
United States
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