2021 Events and Programming
Photos left to right: Cameron McKinney, HUT presented by SCDT, Bread and Puppet Theater
A.P.E.@Hawley provides, to artists and researchers, affordable access to the dance studio, Flex Space, Mezzanine and Workroom/Theater (unfinished) at 33 Hawley. Our programming and rental structure strives to create the conditions for rich exploration and a maximizing of creative potential. We encourage inquiry-based processes and the open exchange of ideas towards the development of new, experimental, and challenging projects and works. A.P.E. welcomes inquiries and requests and reviews proposals on a first come/first serve basis. A.P.E.@Hawley partners with The School for Contemporary Dance & Thought, SCDT and Historic Northampton to create dynamic programming at 33 Hawley.
Current & Upcoming Projects
Sunday, May 22, 4pm
The Workroom, 33 Hawley
Getting Into Gear: A Steampunk Circus
SHOW Circus Studio invites you to join us in a world of family-friendly steampunk fantasy. Performers from the SHOW-Offs youth troupe will take you on a clockwork circus adventure featuring acrobatic and aerial feats performed on weird and wonderful contraptions and apparatuses. Prepare to be amazed by dazzling circus acts such as trapeze, hoop diving, minitrampoline, human pyramids, contortion, stiltwalking, and unicycling!
Tickets: $5 (free for 2 and under)
Masks and Proof of Vaccination Required!
Advance tickets HERE
SCDT COACHING PROJECT with Vanessa Anspaugh
MAY 22-June 10, 2022
Wed, Thurs, Fri 9-12 & Sundays 2-7:30
All Participants Required for rehearsal hours.
Public showing: Friday June 10, 7pm
MORE INFO on SCDT's site HERE
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Installation, performance, and improvisation with visual artist-sculptor Rosalyn Driscoll and dancer-choreographer Paul Matteson
7 Performances, 7 Evenings
6:00-10:00PM
June 13-19, 2022
*different installation and movement each performance*
Driscoll’s sculptures, fragments of sculptures, and raw materials fill the space, creating an installation that Matteson moves through improvisationally—as dancer and as moving sculpture. In each performance he metaphorically enacts a different lifetime, from birth to death.
Driscoll is also present, drawing and making sculpture, as everything continuously changes: movement, artmaking, installation, sculptures, light, sound and audience.
Visitors are invited to move among the sculptures and performers and to come and go during each performance and throughout the week. Each performance lasts several hours.
Tickets and more information HERE
Installation, performance, and improvisation with visual artist-sculptor Rosalyn Driscoll and dancer-choreographer Paul Matteson
7 Performances, 7 Evenings
6:00-10:00PM
June 13-19, 2022
*different installation and movement each performance*
Driscoll’s sculptures, fragments of sculptures, and raw materials fill the space, creating an installation that Matteson moves through improvisationally—as dancer and as moving sculpture. In each performance he metaphorically enacts a different lifetime, from birth to death.
Driscoll is also present, drawing and making sculpture, as everything continuously changes: movement, artmaking, installation, sculptures, light, sound and audience.
Visitors are invited to move among the sculptures and performers and to come and go during each performance and throughout the week. Each performance lasts several hours.
Tickets and more information HERE
Distributed Curation Artists in Residence, 2020-2022
Since 2020, APE@Hawley & SCDT have been developing a residency program that aims to expand outreach and access to our resources of space and organizational support for artists. We began by inviting local artists who we perceived to share some of our concerns around access and inclusivity, and who had already been doing work in our communities to bridge connections and widen creative networks, into 3-day mini-residencies at 33 Hawley. We asked these artists to invite one additional artist into the residency program, considering artists who may not have worked at A.P.E. before, and who, in their own considerations, might benefit from access to creative space.
Over the past year, the program has hosted 15 artists, and has included private residency space for artists, live and online public events, performances, showings, glimpses into artists' processes, and facilitated conversations both within the group and with and for the public. We are excited to be able to extend this residency program into 2021-2022, with bolstered opportunities for supporting artists' processes, peer exchange, and public-facing events, talks, and performances.
Please see below for the full list of artists involved since the beginning of the program:
Since 2020, APE@Hawley & SCDT have been developing a residency program that aims to expand outreach and access to our resources of space and organizational support for artists. We began by inviting local artists who we perceived to share some of our concerns around access and inclusivity, and who had already been doing work in our communities to bridge connections and widen creative networks, into 3-day mini-residencies at 33 Hawley. We asked these artists to invite one additional artist into the residency program, considering artists who may not have worked at A.P.E. before, and who, in their own considerations, might benefit from access to creative space.
Over the past year, the program has hosted 15 artists, and has included private residency space for artists, live and online public events, performances, showings, glimpses into artists' processes, and facilitated conversations both within the group and with and for the public. We are excited to be able to extend this residency program into 2021-2022, with bolstered opportunities for supporting artists' processes, peer exchange, and public-facing events, talks, and performances.
Please see below for the full list of artists involved since the beginning of the program:
POSTPONED: SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 2022 | EXCHANGE: Dances from the heart
Presented in collaboration with The Northampton Arts Council, SCDT and APE@Hawley
Saturday, September 17th
Time TBD
the Workroom at 33 Hawley Street, Northampton MA
Featuring performances from Lauren Horn, Rebecca Pappas, Tyler Rai and Tori Lawerence/Ellie Goudie-Avril. The artists will share current works in response to the fluctuations and challenges in our present worlds, including dance, theater, and performance art.
Presented in collaboration with The Northampton Arts Council, SCDT and APE@Hawley
Saturday, September 17th
Time TBD
the Workroom at 33 Hawley Street, Northampton MA
Featuring performances from Lauren Horn, Rebecca Pappas, Tyler Rai and Tori Lawerence/Ellie Goudie-Avril. The artists will share current works in response to the fluctuations and challenges in our present worlds, including dance, theater, and performance art.
APE@Hawley is now renting space at 33 Hawley—if you're in need of space for individual rehearsals, remote classes, or podded movement sessions, please contact: meredithbove@apearts.org or jenscdt@gmail.com for rates and availability.
photo: dance artist Lailye Weidman in the Workroom space, July 2020.
RESIDENCY OPPORTUNITIES
In theater, music, performance art, dance...at 33 Hawley
ARTIST RESIDENCIES AVAILABLE
Artist Residencies of varying lengths can be accommodated in the Workroom at 33 Hawley. Where space and scheduling allows, APE@Hawley offers a residency package of the following:
• 20 hours of rehearsal space
• One evening for a work-in-progress showing
• Informal, no tech showing either in the Dance Studio or the
Workroom at the end of your residency period.
FEE: $300 Residency Rental Fee
OTHER RESIDENCY OPPORTUNITIES ARE AVAILABLE in the short and long term. Please contact us for scheduling, availability, and more info.
meredithbove@apearts.org
jenscdt@gmail.com
In theater, music, performance art, dance...at 33 Hawley
ARTIST RESIDENCIES AVAILABLE
Artist Residencies of varying lengths can be accommodated in the Workroom at 33 Hawley. Where space and scheduling allows, APE@Hawley offers a residency package of the following:
• 20 hours of rehearsal space
• One evening for a work-in-progress showing
• Informal, no tech showing either in the Dance Studio or the
Workroom at the end of your residency period.
FEE: $300 Residency Rental Fee
OTHER RESIDENCY OPPORTUNITIES ARE AVAILABLE in the short and long term. Please contact us for scheduling, availability, and more info.
meredithbove@apearts.org
jenscdt@gmail.com
APE@Hawley's programming partner, The School for Contemporary Dance and Thought (SCDT), is offering a wide range of movement classes for youth and adults of all levels this fall.
Read more and check out the offerings here! https://www.scdtnoho.com/classes.html
CONTACT QUARTERLY LIBRARY AT 33 HAWLEY
APE@Hawley is excited to announce that the dance library that was acquired and stewarded for years by our friends at Contact Quarterly is now housed at A.P.E.'s office in 33 Hawley! Since the closing of CQ's office down the road in Florence, MA, we have accepted their generous gift of hundreds of books, periodicals, and DVDs on dance practice and performance, as well as a full CQ back issue set. Once COVID restrictions allow, we will be making this reading library available to the public for using and perusing while at 33 Hawley. Also on the horizon is the use of a public computer, gifted to us by CQ, for research and browsing of CQ's back issue archive.
We can't wait to read and research together!" For more information and to access the library contact: meredithbove@apearts.org
APE@Hawley is excited to announce that the dance library that was acquired and stewarded for years by our friends at Contact Quarterly is now housed at A.P.E.'s office in 33 Hawley! Since the closing of CQ's office down the road in Florence, MA, we have accepted their generous gift of hundreds of books, periodicals, and DVDs on dance practice and performance, as well as a full CQ back issue set. Once COVID restrictions allow, we will be making this reading library available to the public for using and perusing while at 33 Hawley. Also on the horizon is the use of a public computer, gifted to us by CQ, for research and browsing of CQ's back issue archive.
We can't wait to read and research together!" For more information and to access the library contact: meredithbove@apearts.org
THE WORKROOM@33Hawley
Help us OPEN THE WORKROOM/THEATER@33HAWLEY
It’s the perfect time to build the future together!
Fundraising efforts continue at 33 Hawley to open the Workroom/Theater. Donate today!
It’s the perfect time to build the future together!
Fundraising efforts continue at 33 Hawley to open the Workroom/Theater. Donate today!
- The Northampton Community Arts Trust recently received its fourth matching grant from the Mass Cultural Council Cultural Facilities Fund! This matching grant of $100,000 will to help open The Workroom/Theater@33Hawley.
- To open this 3,800 square foot creative space we must raise an additional $400,000 to cover HVAC, acoustic walls, electrics and subfloor construction.
- A sprung floor for dancing is an additional $100,000. Learn More and Donate to the Build a Floor Project in honor of Nancy Stark Smith, hosted by Andrea Olsen.
ARTIST RETROSPECTIVES
APE@Hawley and SCDT are offering an online retrospective of the artists that have shared work at 33 Hawley over the past two years. The full retrospectives are HERE
APE@Hawley and SCDT are offering an online retrospective of the artists that have shared work at 33 Hawley over the past two years. The full retrospectives are HERE
