About

A.P.E.@Hawley and The School For Contemporary Dance & Thought
with Historic Northampton, Northampton Open Media, and the Smith College Department of Dance present:

SOMATICS FESTIVAL 2019
SEPTEMBER 19-23, 2019

CELEBRATING THE WORK OF  
JANET ADLER
BONNIE BAINBRIDGE COHEN
NANCY STARK SMITH
AND THE 45-YEAR HERITAGE OF CONTACT QUARTERLY

Welcome to our festival.
Our intention is to create a gathering which celebrates the emergence and confluence of these bodies of work in this unique place of Northampton, while marking the present moment and encouraging new connections. Main events will be documented for inclusion in the archives of the Jerome Robbins Dance Division of the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. “Somatics” references bodies of work that call forth an inherent experience of the intelligent moving/dancing body. The spaces that support creative work and somatic processes in our community are also being celebrated: the Smith College Crew House, SCDT at STUDIO4, and the new arts facility 33 Hawley Street.

​Please note that event fees are offerings to make the whole gathering possible. Workshop sizes and audience capacity are limited by the facilities and the needs of presenters. On-line registration reserves your place and is non-refundable. The Saturday “conversations” are in a large auditorium at Smith College that can host all of us together. Within these parameters, the festival format offers time and space for movement, discussion, and gathering with colleagues. Appreciation to all who are helping to make this possible, including the presenters who enthusiastically said "yes" to the possibility of gathering.

​Andrea Olsen, Festival curator for A.P.E.@Hawley // with Lisa Thompson/A.P.E. & Jen Polins/SCDT

SCHEDULE

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 19

2-4PM   ARCHIVING THE EXPERIENCE with Lesley Farlow 
   Location: 33 Hawley FLEX SPACE

6-9PM   WORKSHOP #1 UNPACKING THE UNDERSCORE with Nancy Stark Smith
   Location: 33 Hawley FLEX SPACE

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 20

9:30-11:30AM   INT/ADV CONTEMPORARY TECHNIQUES INTRICACY IN MOTION with Paul Matteson
   Location: 33 Hawley FLEX SPACE

1-4:30PM   SOMATIC FILM SCREENINGS in collaboration with Northampton Community Television
        1-1:45PM   "LOOKING FOR ME" introduced by Janet Adler
        2-2:45PM   "FALL AFTER NEWTON" introduced by Nancy Stark Smith
        3-3:45PM   "FOUR SPECIAL CHILDREN" (excerpt) introduced by Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen
        4-4:30PM   "VISION OF THORNES" introduced by Andrea Olsen
Location: 33 Hawley FLEX SPACE

7PM   PERFORMANCE with Shayla-Vie Jenkins, Paul Matteson, Andrea Olsen, & Peter Schmitz
   Location: 33 Hawley FLEX SPACE

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 21

9AM-NOON   WORKSHOP #2 SELF AND OTHER with Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen 
  Location: SCDT/STUDIO4, 25 Main St

1:30-3:30PM   SESSION A "Why Here, Why Then?" a conversation with festival presenters Janet Adler, Bainbridge Cohen, and Stark Smith, hosted by Laurie Sanders and Elizabeth Sharpe, Co-Directors of Historic Northampton.
  Location: Theater 14, Mendenhall Center for the Performing Arts, Smith College

4:30-6PM   SESSION B "Where are we now?" Janet Adler shapes a conversation with Bainbridge Cohen, Stark Smith, and festival curator, Andrea Olsen.
   Location: Theater 14, Mendenhall Center for the Performing Arts, Smith College

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 22

9AM-NOON   AUTHENTIC MOVEMENT GATHERING with Janet Adler
   Location: Crew House, Smith College

9AM-NOON   WORKSHOP #3 TUNING SCORES LABORATORY with Lisa Nelson
   Location: SCDT/STUDIO4, 25 Main St

2-4PM  CQ EDITOR NOTES Conversation between Nancy Stark Smith and Lisa Nelson about the origin and ongoing process of Contact Quarterly.
   Location: 33 Hawley Flex

4-6PM   VISUAL ARTISTS RECEPTION & BOOK SIGNINGS
   Location: 33 Hawley FLEX SPACE

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 23

9-11AM  NEW SOMATIC INQUIRIES "Introduction to the Discipline of Authentic Movement" with Bonnie Morrissey & Paula Sager
   Location: SCDT/STUDIO4, 25 Main St

9-11AM  NEW SOMATIC INQUIRIES "Normalized Stability--An Indicator of Structural Integration" with Caryn McHose & Kevin Frank
   Location: Crew House, Smith College

1:30-3PM  NEW SOMATIC INQUIRIES "Dynamics of Perception and Tone in relation to the Fascial System" lecture with Chris Aiken
  Location: 33 Hawley FLEX SPACE

5-7PM  NEW SOMATIC INQUIRIES "The Embodied Teen: A Somatic Curriculum for Teaching Body-Mind Awareness" with Susan Bauer
   Location: SCDT/STUDIO4, 25 Main St

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ONGOING

Visual art display by nine artists, “Vectors” Visual Art Exhibit and “Looking Back/Moving Forward Historic Images of Somatic Practices” display at 33 Hawley, Northampton, MA

Making it on Main Street, Exhibit at Historic Northampton. 46 Bridge St Northampton, MA

Robert Tobey Photographs, at Window/A.P.E. Gallery. 126 Main St Northampton, MA

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