Fall 2024 Adult Beginning Modern: Mondays 7-8:30pm in The Workroom – Northampton, MA

SCDT Presents:

ADULT BEGINNER MODERN

Mondays, 7-8:30pm *note 30 minute time shift*

Drop in any time, in The Workroom at 33 Hawley!

Open to all who want to train together in a supportive environment. Rotating teachers.

CLASS FEES:

• Student/Low Income: $5-$25
• Employed/Financially Stable: $15-$50
• Arts Supporter/Able to Give: $25-$500
• SIX WEEK SESSION: $60-$120

TEACHER SCHEDULE FOR Fall 2024:

TEACHER SCHEDULE ANNOUNCED SHORTLY

THIS TEACHING SCHEDULE IS ACTIVE AND WILL REFLECT ANY CHANGES

September

9-Chloe London

16-Gabrielle Revlock

23-Frankie Baron

30-Frankie Baron

October

7-Olana Flynn

14-Madison Palffy

21-Madison Palffy

28-Madison Palffy

November

4-Olana Flynn

11-Meredith Bove

18-Olana Flynn

25-NO CLASS

December

2-Frankie Baron

TEACHER BIOS

Francesca Baron (she/her) established herself as a free-lance choreographer and performer in Chicago upon graduating from Lindenwood University with dual degrees in Dance and Psychology. Recognizing that the body can inhabit many states of being, she is intrigued to push the boundaries of kinetic movement. Intellectually she values complexity and connection. Physically she values big sweeping movement, finding rigor to yield both an empowering and freeing sensation. Francesca currently resides in Northampton where she graduated with her MFA in Performance & Choreography from Smith College in May 2024.

Chloe London is a choreographer, performer, and teacher splitting her time between Western Massachusetts and NYC. She has danced for Vanessa Anspaugh, Alex Davis, Stefanie Nelson, Tammy Sugden-Carrasco, Martha Tornay, John Zullo, and The Merce Cunningham Trust. She has choreographed collaboratively with Angie Hauser, Alex Davis, and Tim Bendernagel. Her own choreography has been presented by Movement Research at the Judson Church, Dixon Place, Triskelion Arts, School of Contemporary Dance and Thought, and Battery Park Dance Festival. She was a 2019 Triskelion Presents commissioned artist (Brooklyn, NY), a 2022 ARC Artist in Residence at A.P.E. Gallery (Northampton, MA) and a 2023 Artist in Residence at Bearnstow (Mount Vernon, ME). She graduated in May 2023 with her MFA in Performance & Choreography from Smith College, where she performed in works by Chris Aiken, Angie Hauser & Bebe Miller, Erin Kouwe, Gabrielle Revlock, and Jenna Riegel. She was a Teaching Fellow at Smith College and Hampshire College from 2021-2023 and a Dance Lecturer at UMass Amherst for the 2023-2024 academic year. She currently dances for Barbie Diewald and Mary Beth Brooker and is currently working on a new evening-length piece commissioned by Triskelion Arts, premiering in the Spring of 2025.

Olana Flynn is a multi-disciplinary dance artist based in Holyoke, MA. She holds an MFA in Experimental Choreography from University of California, Riverside and a BA from Hampshire College. Her work looks at improvisational movement and technologies for looping and layering such as 35mm photography and electronic music in relation to liminality and memory. She is a founding member of LOCULUS, a dance and performance collective also based on Western Massachusetts, that creates performance in non-traditional (for dance) spaces and publishes The Loculus Journal. Olana has held faculty positions at Sarah Lawrence College, Springfield College, the University of California Riverside, and has been a guest artist at a number of high schools, studios, and festivals.

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SCHOLARSHIPS:

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