HUT XXXIII

HUT XXXIII • MARCH 5 • 8pm

Featuring

SIMON THOMAS-TRAIN,/CLAUDIA-LYNN RIGHTMIRE MOVEMENT

CAROLINE RAINER WORDS

CHRIS CORSANO MUSIC

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WELCOME BACK TO HUT! WE ARE NOW IN OUR NEW HOME AT THE WORKROOM THEATER AT 33 HAWLEY STREET, NORTHAMPTON MA! The space is 3000 square feet with 30 foot ceiling and plenty of room to social distance.

$10 online/ $15 at the door PRE REGISTRATION RECOMENDED, LIMITED SEATING.

MASKS AND PROOF OF VACCINATION REQUIRED.

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SCDT is pleased to welcome the ELEVENTH season of HUT—the interdisciplinary performance series presented by SCDT and co-curated by dancer Jennifer Polins, writer Jay Keery Weingarten, and sound artist Jake Meginsky. HUT showcases three artists in three short sets in an evening of music, words, and movement.

HUT's roster of local and internationally recognized contemporary artists including among others Caliph Ali, Steve Baczkowski, Shura Baryshnikov, Chris Corsano, Joy Davis, Paul Flaherty, Jacob Fried, Jenifer Gelineau, Steve Gunn, Sean D. Henry-Smith, Kathleen Hermesdorf, Ben Hersey, K.J. Holmes, Jaamil Olawale Kosoko, Matt Krefting, Jason Lesceleet, Emily Lukasewski, V. Manuscript, Carole Maso, Bill Nace, Samara Lubelski, Cori Olinghouse, Natalia Panzer, Andrea Pensado, Jennifer Nugent, Vic Rawlings, Zach Rowden, Luke Stewart, Mariana Valencia, Laura Warman, and Wendy Woodson....

ARTIST BIOS

Chris Corsano

"...seriously one of the most exciting drummers on the planet." -Adam Richards, indieworkshop.com

Chris Corsano (b. 1975, USA) is an upstate NY-based drummer who has been active at the intersections of collective improvisation, free jazz, avant-rock, and noise music since the late 1990's. He began a long-standing, high-energy musical partnership with saxophonist Paul Flaherty in 1998. Their style, which they occasionally refer to with (semi-)tongue-in-cheek humor as "The Hated Music", combines modern free-jazz's ecstatic collectivist spirit and the urgency and intensity of hardcore punk.

A move from western Massachusetts to the UK in 2005 led Corsano to develop his solo music--a dynamic, spontaneously-composed amalgam of extended techniques for drum set and non-percussive instruments of his own making: e.g. bowed violin strings stretched across drum heads, modified reed instruments, and stockpiles of resonant metal. In February 2006, Corsano released his first solo recording, The Young Cricketer, and toured extensively throughout Europe, USA, Australia, and Japan. He spent 2007 and '08 as the drummer on Björk's Volta world tour, all the while weaving in shows and recordings on his days off with the likes of Evan Parker, Virginia Genta, C. Spencer Yeh, and Jandek.

Moving back to the U.S. in 2009, Corsano returned focus to his own projects, including a duo with Michael Flower, Vampire Belt (with Bill Nace), Rangda (with Richard Bishop and Ben Chasny) and his solo work, further expanded in its use of contact microphones and synthesizers. In 2017, he received the Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artist Award.

Corsano's dedication to collective improvisation has led to collaborations with many kindred spirits and his appearance on over 150 records and 1000 live performances. He's worked with, among others: Paul Dunmall (released by the label: ESP-Disk), Joe McPhee (Roaratorio), Okkyung Lee (Open Mouth), Mette Rasmussen (Hot Cars Warp Records & Clean Feed), John Edwards (OTOroku & Dancing Wayang), Sylvie Courvoisier (Relative Pitch), Nate Wooley (No Business & Astral Spirits), Jim O'Rourke & Akira Sakata (Drag City & Polystar), Merzbow (Family Vineyard), Jessica Rylan (Load Records), Nels Cline (Strange Attractors), Heather Leigh (Volcanic Tongue), Ghédalia Tazartès (Ultra Eczema), Ken Vandermark (Audiographic), and Sunburned Hand Of Man (Manhand).

Caroline Rayner

Caroline Rayner is a poet and music writer from Richmond, VA.

She is the author the chapbook, calorie world (Sad Spell, 2017).

Her poetry can be found in blush lit, KEITH LLC, Black Warrior Review, Peach Mag, Shabby Doll House, and elsewhere.

She earned an MFA in poetry from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, where she taught composition and creative writing. She also served as assistant managing editor of jubilat.

Her essays, reviews, and interviews can be found in Tiny Mix Tapes, The Le Sigh, and elsewhere.

CLAUDIA-LYNN RIGHTMIRE (she/her), a Florida native, holds an Honors summa cum laude BA degree from Roger Williams University, in RI. She has taught, created, and collaborated professionally in Florida, Australia, and NYC. Claudia-Lynn has worked as a dancer and company manager with Kinesis Project Dance Theatre, and as a performer with INSPIRIT Dance Company, New York City Children’s Theater, Third Rail Projects, David Dorfman Dance, Moving Ethos Dance, and Sarasota Contemporary Dance Company. In 2021, she formed c|s movement projects alongside her partner, Simon Thomas-Train.

SIMON THOMAS-TRAIN (he/him) began dancing at Middlebury College, transitioning from an extensive background in competitive cross country skiing to graduate with a joint BA in Dance and Architectural Studies in 2009. He has danced professionally in NYC and Europe for the past 12 years for companies including David Dorfman Dance, Rosie Herrera Dance Theater, Third Rail Projects, Palissimo and Vanessa Anspaugh. He has created dances at numerous colleges and served as a guest choreographer, artist and/or teacher at a variety of institutions. Simon also holds an MBA in Sustainability Systems from Presidio Graduate School.

In 2021 he formed c|s movement projects with his partner in life/making, Claudia-Lynn Rightmire. c|s movement projects is a space where Simon and Claudia get to contemplate all their making questions - what are we doing, are we doing enough, what can we make of the time we have been given?