Tuesdays 9 - 10am

January 14 -February 18th

$15-30 drop in, $60 for full session

January 10, 17, 24, 31

4:30 - 6pm

at Northampton Center for the Arts

sliding scale $10-25

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

INT/ADV CONTEMPORARY MODERN DANCE

FRIDAYS IN MARCH

(MARCH 1, 8, 15, 22, 29)

4:30-6:00PM

COST: $10-$25/CLASS, SLIDING SCALE

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

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.

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.