Madison Palffy is a performing artist, dance-maker, and movement educator based in western Massachusetts. She holds an MFA in Dance and Choreography with an emphasis in Somatics and Improvisation from University of Colorado, Boulder. Her work is driven by a sense of experimentation and artistic cross-pollination and has taken the form of films, installations, and evening length performances. Her work has been shown at Studio 303 (Montreal), The Iron Factory (Philadelphia), Ponderosa (Germany), The School for Contemporary Dance and Thought (Northampton, MA), GreenSpace (NYC), AS220 (Providence, RI), The Dairy Arts Center (Boulder, CO), and throughout New England.
As a collaborating artist, she has had the pleasure of performing in work by Anya Cloud, Wendy Woodson, Lailye Weidman, Katie Martin, Chris Aiken, Angie Hauser, Kathleen Hermesdorf, and Paul Matteson (among others). Other collaborations include movement direction for Sleater Kinney’s music video “High in the Grass” and Petite Garcon’s east and west coast touring stage show.
Madison is a founding member and co-director of LOCULUS, a dance and performance collective that creates performances in non-traditional spaces, produces an experimental dance journal, and directs The Loculus Studio in Holyoke, MA.
Madison has studied various somatic modalities including Body Mind Centering under the tutelage of Erika Berland, Alexander Technique with Nada Diachenko, Fascial Flossing with Bonnie Crotzer, and trained and taught at Ape Co Movement School for three years. Most recently, she completed her Pilates Mat Certification training at The Pilates Space in Great Barrington and is in the process of her Comprehensive Certification.
As an educator, Madison has been on faculty at Keene State College, Pioneer Valley Performing Arts Charter School, Berkshire Pulse, SCDT, Northampton Center for the Arts, Block 1750, Ape Co Movement School, and The Spark Performing Arts Center. She was a graduate teaching instructor at University of Colorado Boulder and has been a guest teaching artist at Amherst College, Hampshire College, Moving Target Portland, Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, Earthdance Workshop & Retreat Center, the Williston Northampton School and as an in-school teaching artist in Springfield, Holyoke, and Pittsfield public schools.
She currently teaches dance and Pilates at The School for Contemporary Dance & Thought, Berkshire Pulse, Loculus Studios, Ascendance, and Smith College.
CONTACT: madisongpalffy@gmail.com
FIND ME ON INSTAGRAM: @madison.palffy