January 10, 17, 24, 31
4:30 - 6pm
at Northampton Center for the Arts
sliding scale $10-25
Tuesdays 9 - 10am
January 14 -February 18th
$15-30 drop in, $60 for full session
Split Bill performance with AJ Cornell
Movement Workshop
LOCULUS will share some of their methods of collaborative dance making. Their work together draws from contact improvisation, ensemble work, noise, authentic movement, ecology, and rhythmic puzzles. Participants will be led through a series of scores that alternate between moving, writing, and making.
Night Moves with special guest Rosie Borden
An open level dance class: learning simple moves, getting sweaty, having fun. (Think Jazzercise, zumba, line dancing…) You can expect: a guided warm up, loose structures to generate heat while exploring rhythm and flow, and some fun low pressure choreography. After the class comes to a close, the evening will enter .... an open dance opportunity to the music of local pop icon Rosie Borden
ADULT MODERN - MONDAYS 7-8:30PM
October 14, 21, and 28
INT/ADV CONTEMPORARY - SUNDAYS 2-3:45PM
October 27 and November 3
at 33 Hawley Street, Northampton
more info and registration: https://www.scdtnoho.com/adult-class-schedule.html
Our third annul(ish) festival celebrating performance, process, and practice brought to you by LOCULUS and this time happening entirely in Holyoke, MA. Full festival schedule and tickets HERE
JULY 19: Bromp Treb, Connect 4, and LOCULUS. at a barn in Ashfield.
AUGUST 8: Wrangler Man, Jayson Keery, and LOCULUS. at The Guilded Brick in Holyoke.
AUGUST 11: LOCULUS/Sunburned Hand of the Man, Willie Lane, Christina Carter. at the Sun Spot in Northampton.
Ximena Bedoya, an interdisciplinary artist and designer from Perú currently based in New York, explores transitional states of mind, body, and space through audiovisual experiences. Bedoya’s work teaches viewers to embrace life's fluctuating moments, following discomfort with inquiry alongside inevitability and absurdity. Bedoya is half of Lobby Art Editions, a record and cassette label with roots in Western Massachusetts. She received an MFA in Applied Craft & Design from the Pacific Northwest College of Art in Portland.
Dance collective LOCULUS opens. Founded in 2015 in Western Massachusetts by Five College Dance alumni Olana Flynn and Madison Palffy, LOCULUS' performances are site-specific and rooted in engagement with DIY artist communities, often taking place in bars, yards, and houses.
Free. Accessible seats available; for information, call 413 458 0524. This program is presented in collaboration with Belltower Records, North Adams, Massachusetts.
May 15 -June 15
$10-20 sliding scale drop in
Wednesdays 9:30am ENERGIZING MAT
We’ll rock, roll, shake, and do some things to get our hearts pumping and bodies energized.
Saturdays 10:30am RESTORATIVE MAT
This class will focus on breath, release, and awareness.
INT/ADV CONTEMPORARY MODERN DANCE
FRIDAYS IN MARCH
(MARCH 1, 8, 15, 22, 29)
4:30-6:00PM
COST: $10-$25/CLASS, SLIDING SCALE
Hutghi’s at The Nook, Westfield MA
Sharing some of my current research about holes. Tentatively titled Interview with a Hole
with solo sets by Jen Gelineau and Tempestade
LOCULUS
Sediment Club
Container
at FKA Comics 90 King Street Northampton MA
SIDEWAYS DOOR II is the second semi-annual festival celebrating multi-disciplinary performance, process and practice organized by LOCULUS. The festival takes place at multiple venues throughout the Pioneer Valley and brings together local and regional dancers, sound and video artists, and poets for three days of performances, classes, and workshops.
For more information visit:
www.loculuscollective.com/festival
Skin in the Game:
Investigating risk & togetherness
Lailye Weidman, with Catalina Hernández-Cabal, Alta Millar, Madison Palffy, Ashley Shey, and Meredith Bove (dramaturg)
June 18-24
"Long & Wild" is an experimental, durational dance performance that creates a queer context for an intimate togetherness in different changing worlds: grief, transformation and love intersect. The piece is part choreography, part party, part funeral, and part community talk. What if a dance performance was at the same time a journey through time, a community, a living space or a ritual that promotes the togetherness of audience and performers? Long & Wild aims to be an irrepressible overload of pleasure and critical inquiry that stretches and challenges dominant notions of violence, caring, pleasure, play and gender.
Company: The Love Makers
Choreography: Makisig Akin (they/them) Anya Cloud (she/her)
Dance: Makisig Akin, Anya Cloud, Jesús Muñoz, Madison Palffy
DJ: Rafa Cunha
Dramaturgy: Karen Schaffman
Sound Design: Makisig Akin, Anya Cloud
Light Design: Collaboration by Makisig Akin, Anya Cloud, Asier Solana, Martin Pilz
Sound Collaboration: Kata Kovács
elle hong and Madison Palffy perform as a part of FreeForm Dance Festival presented at The Dairy Arts Center in Boulder, CO
elle hong and Madison Palffy will screen a new film made in collaboration with a.r. havel during their B2 residency. followed by karaoke!!
performing in “everything deserves to breathe” a new work by Anya Cloud, with Makisig Akin and Jesus Munoz
as a part of CU Boulder’s The Current
Expect to see some moves by me and hear some sounds by local Denver heroes Petite Garcon
https://www.lauraconway.org/petite-garc
MARCH 18 - LOS ANGELES
MARCH 19 - OAKLAND
MARCH 20 - FORT BRAGG
MARCH 21 - PORTLAND
MARCH 22 - SEATTLE
“Techniques for Possession: Becoming Hole"
an MFA thesis directed by Madison Palffy
starring Jessica Bertram, Caroline Butcher, Quinn Gumbiner, elle hong, Amelia Jacobs, and Madison Palffy
March 3, 4, and 5th at The Spark in Boulder, CO
7:30pm
$12
"Techniques for Possession: Becoming Hole" is an evening length dance piece that explores the intersection of disorientation and collectivity.
Madison Palffy, Caroline Butcher, Kat Lott, and Christy Mitchell will present a new three part improvisational investigation titled “Emotional Unclogging” as a part of the Department of Theatre & Dance’s concert.
DANCING ON THE EDGE OF CINEMA:
live multimedia performance, installations, and dance films curated by SSF and CU Dance faculty and alumni
September 24 & 25, 2021
7pm doors/installations, 7:30pm show
same program both evenings
The B2 Center for Media, Arts & Performance embraces convivial and interdisciplinary experimentation that co-mingles art, technology, media, science, performance, radical creativity and [insert your practice here]. Located on basement level 2 of the Roser ATLAS Center, the B2 community researches and practices intellectual/creative risk-taking, form-bending, art-making, community building and social engagement. Facilities include the Black Box Experimental Studio and four studio labs equipped with some of the very latest media production and performance technologies. Part of the ATLAS Institute, B2 encourages collaborations, methodologies, and productions that traverse borders and disciplines and build/unbuild the unimagined/re-imagined.
The Kate Bush Factor”(working-title) is a proposed dance/media collaboration between Madison Palffy and rick h m. Since 2019, the two have been engaged in experimental, choreographic processes exploring themes of identity, queer theory’s dis/embodiments through improvisational technique, and disorientation as an embodied strategy for practicing anti-normativity. The first manifestation of their performance research, “Show Pony”, found the two utilizing equine imagery and embodiments as inspiration for unfolding possibilities for identificatory performance beyond gender binarism. Their current research cycle is similarly intent on presenting methods of embodying ideas of identity by means of blurring boundaries: between self and other, between emptiness and fullness, between intent and impulse. With “The Kate Bush Factor,” Madison and rick aim to uncover what embodied knowledge might be hidden within queer ancestry/iconography in a choreographic study of Kate Bush’s iconic dance music videos.
New works created with guest artist Oscar Trujillo as well as a new WIP created by myself in collaboration with rick h-m.
This intensive introduces students to basic concepts and skills included in the study of contemporary dance. The structure of the class will oscillate between somatic inquiries, improvisational scores, and movement material that inform each other. Explorations of form and function that help expand students’ capacity for creative articulation as movers will be offered. Explorations will be rooted in contemporary floorwork, modern dance, release technique, and improvisation. All bodies and skill levels welcome; come ready to move and have fun!
SATURDAYS 9-11am at Block 1750 in Boulder, CO
https://block1750.com/
Provincetown Dance Festival presents an exclusive online festival celebrating fifteen years of dance in Provincetown with a special presentation on January 17th, 2021. The festival will be a one-time event, with works by seven artists designed exclusively for this online presentation.
Exclusive content will include works by multi-discipline artists and companies of National renown: including
Spectrum Dance Theater (Seattle)
Paul Taylor Dance Company (New York)
Portland Ballet (Portland, ME)
Island Reflections Dance Theater (Hartford)
Madison Palffy (Boulder, CO)
Tap artists Orlando Hernandez, Sean Fielder and Khalid Hill
Mouli Pal, a classical Indian Dancer, as well as some special surprise appearances to be announced.
“I realized we still have a devoted dance-loving audience that could be served during these crazy times. Just as importantly, I have discovered that we can still support the fantastic performing artists that have soldiered on to create work that must be experienced.”
Festival Artistic Director, Adam Miller
This special presentation is part of a multi-phased strategy to re-imagine new configurations to present dance to the Outer Cape.
The evening will include works made specifically for the Provincetown Dance Festival, as well has discussion and introductions by each artist. This will provide unique insights into the inspiration and process of bringing dance to audiences within new formats and media.
https://www.castlehill.org/special-events/dance
I will be showing a new iteration of “We Might Shimmering Like Plants in the Night” with Molly McBride as a part of the Provincetown Dance Festival.
