WIP XVII - WORKS IN PROGRESS
November 21, 2021 at 4:30pm
In Person at 33 Hawley Street, Northampton, MA in the Workroom Studio Theater
MASKS AND PROOF OF VACCINATION REQUIRED FOR ALL
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The School for Contemporary Dance and Thought presents WIP (works-in-progress), a performance series that showcases developing movement-based works on Sunday afternoons. WIP values sharing research and experimentation, rather than presenting finished works, and welcomes applications from emerging and established artists.
The curatorial team choosing WIP choreographers is composed of fellow dance artists located in the Pioneer Valley. We are looking to create performances showcasing a diverse range of established and emerging artists, as well as those local to the valley and beyond.
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November 21st Artists:
Louis DeVaughan Nelson aka DeVO (NY)
Mia Martelli (NY)
Nona Monahin (MA)
Kate Tarlow Morgan (NY0
Cat Wagner and Kelly Silliman (MA)
Louis DeVaughn Nelson is Queer, Black interdisciplinary artist and the founder Hokum Arts started in 2006. Nelson has worked for 20 years as a performer, choreographer, producer and director for film, theater, dance and more. His works have been shown in USA, Europe, Australia and South Korea. He has studied at DeSales University, Drexel University, The New School, The Jeanne Ruddy School of Dance, The Koresh School of Dance, and is a proud member of The Dramatists Guild of America.Mia Martelli is a dance artist. The body and movement are jumping off points in all her endeavors, and she creates visual art, sound, and videos as a way to widen the scope of her choreographic process. She is a 2021 LiftOff Artist-In-Residence through New Dance Alliance. Her work has been supported by AUNTS, Queer Spectra Arts Festival, and the West Harlem Art Fund, where she was a Governor’s Island Artist-In-Residence. Mia’s videos and visual art have been published by Queerly Contemporary Festival, GRRL HAUS Cinema, and various independent zines and publications. Mia collaborates as a performer for Chloe London Dance, Jessie Young, and Jordan Demetrius Lloyd.Nona Monahin is a scholar-practitioner interested in the relationships between dance and music. She has a Ph.D. in musicology with a focus on dance, and many years of practical experience in various dance forms, including ballet, modern, renaissance and baroque, Duncan, and Russian character dance. Nona teaches historical dance in the Five College Early Music Program at Mount Holyoke College, and has presented lectures and workshops on dance and music in the United States, Canada, Europe, and her native Australia. She has choreographed for many Shakespeare plays and other historical productions, but above all she enjoys making dances in her own eclectic style, which encompasses the serious, whimsical, humorous, and at times absurd, but is almost always informed by the music. Nona formed “Another Dance Group” in 2021, for dancers of diverse ages and dance backgrounds who are interested in exploring the limitless possibilities of music-inspired choreographyKate Tarlow Morgan , dancer, writer, teacher, archivist, is editor of Currents Journal of the Body-Mind Centering Association, co-founder of the Somatic Writing Collective Series and consulting editor of Lost and Found: Poetics Document Initiative (C.U.N.Y). Kate, a certified teacher of Body-Mind Centering® and The Rhythms Fundamentals©, has created a synergistic approach to the body through natural movement, choreographic practices and writing. ~ “Drawing from the Basic Neurocellular Patterns that engage the nervous system’s relationship to gravity, this dance-with-words speaks to the physical phenomenon called proprioception. The project started 45 years ago with a poem called Proprioception, by American Poet, Charles Olson. I carried this poem around with me, dog-eared it, re-visiting over and over the potent, embodied language that spoke to me on both physical and metaphysical levels. What you will hear are my words, except for “the universe flowing in” – that belongs to the poet.” Cat Wagner and Kelly Silliman have been been collaborating since 2013, shortly after they both graduated from the Smith College MFA program in Choreography and Performance. They create dance plays to explore contemporary feminism, intersectional identities, and American pop culture in playful, absurdist ways. Cat Wagner is the dance instructor at Stoneleigh-Burnham School in Greenfield, MA. Kelly Silliman is the program director at the Northampton Center for the Arts in Northampton, MA, and is the founder/director of the tinydance project. Kelly is also a core collaborator with Deborah Goffe/Scapegoat Garden.
