2020 Programming
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
If you are interested in proposing a project or renting space at 33 Hawley Street please contact A.P.E.
If you are interested in proposing a project or renting space at 33 Hawley Street please contact A.P.E.
Current & Upcoming Projects
ACCESS/AXIS 2021
ACCESS / AXIS is a month long program at 33 Hawley Street, created to honor and support the value of artists' process by offering short residencies that provide space to work and opportunities to connect with others.
"Access Points" are artist-shaped engagements that offer the public insight into each artist’s process.
These events may take the form of conversations, work-in-progress showings, readings, or any type of sharing of process. The engagements are shaped during and in response to each artist’s residency time.
Join us for these unique, indeterminate, and timely engagements!
More Info and Registration on SCDT's site HERE.
Artists-in-Residence include:
ACCESS / AXIS is a month long program at 33 Hawley Street, created to honor and support the value of artists' process by offering short residencies that provide space to work and opportunities to connect with others.
"Access Points" are artist-shaped engagements that offer the public insight into each artist’s process.
These events may take the form of conversations, work-in-progress showings, readings, or any type of sharing of process. The engagements are shaped during and in response to each artist’s residency time.
Join us for these unique, indeterminate, and timely engagements!
More Info and Registration on SCDT's site HERE.
Artists-in-Residence include:
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January 3-9:
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In this new work-in-progress, Rebecca Pappas and her collaborators Ellen Smith Ahern and Taylor Zappone are trying to understand the ways they've been taught to be white. Diving into modern dance training, as well as conversations around wellness, femininity, domesticity, and land, we are hoping to reveal the scripts around race that our bodies have inherited. What has our whiteness been used to justify and how can this process be exposed, interrupted, and unlearned? www.rebeccapappas.com Screenshots from film by Tori Lawrence |
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From Jasmin Agosto: With COVID-19, live in-person performance experiences, the bread and butter of Sageseeker Productions, have been at a stand still. Performers across the globe have been creating live music and dance experiences virtually more now than ever. Although I have produced one production early on during the COVID shutdown, I have been very hesitant and slow to produce more. This mini residency is an opportunity for myself and select collaborators to get out of our homes and heads and create something based on the processes we have been going through to acknowledge loss, tap into ancestral survival techniques, and make space for grounding ourselves through the uncertainty. Movement, poetry, song, and ritual may emerge from the exploration. www.facebook.com/sageseeker0 photo by Maza Rey (2019) |
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mayfield brooks: Whale Fall is a dance project that explores the sonic dissidence of Black grief. The Coronavirus pandemic has exposed unspeakable injustice and loss. Have we given ourselves time to grieve these losses? And how can grief be transformed? Whale Fall is a scientific term describing the process of a whale's decomposition after it dies and falls to the ocean floor while providing nutrients for deepwater creatures. For this project, the Whale Fall becomes the dance, the space of grief and regeneration, the lamentation, the ecstasy, the song and the sonic release. www.improvisingwhileblack.com photo by Paula Court |
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Prayer of the Morning is an equal collaboration between Hadar Ahuvia and Tatyana Tenenbaum that makes space for repairing our Jewishness within the ongoing wreckage of colonialism. It is a prying open of our Jewish diasporic histories and inherited folklore—from Zionist pageants to American musical theater. Together we search for imagined evolutions without rupture, for poetry with weight, for a future grounded in past insight, for foresight. http://www.tatyanatenenbaum.com http://hadarahuvia.com photo by Ian Douglass The Prince, by Doug LeCours: Child prodigies, a Bach violin concerto, a crush I had once. A mirror across from the bed, something going on behind (beneath?) all those shapes. The Prince is looking for cracks in the veneer of classicism. The Prince is taking a stab at dancing. douglecours.com photo by Kathryn Butler Willie Filkowski: In 1952, two young, gay (and later, Big, Important) American artists travelled to Rome for a trip that art history largely remembers as seminal and formative, but not romantic or sexy. While in residence for Access/Axis 2021, Willie will begin choreographing a section of a new work which attempts to revise this history into the gay rom-com that it never was. www.williefilkowski.com photo by Ambika Raina Amir Hall: Stand-up comedian, gaza man, College graduate, grieving son - these are the voices that echo throughout Pray Daddy: The Prayer, a digital freedom ritual that explores the liberatory power of embodied truth-telling and loving witness for folks of marginalized identity; the black, the poor and the LGBTQ+. A coming out letter of sorts, the digital performance and installation interrogates the permeability of gender as it operates in the Caribbean space. It is the cartography of a new man, the one unknown to us, the one that flies. screenshot by Amir Hall Sara Smith is continuing development of her project "INT (In Network Time)," a multidisciplinary, speculative work rooted in an exploration of the later writings of Gloria E. Anzaldúa, borderless biological networks, models of distributed cognition, and octopuses. Sara is considering how the current pandemic reframes the themes of interconnection and collectivity in INT, and impacts her process collaborations with other artists. sarasmithprojects.com photo by Sara Smith |
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María José Giménez will continue in-progress work rooted in the interplay between writing and translation and in freeing creative practice to enable a non-transactional space across and between languages and mediums. This project explores making visible the space between—the intersection of public and private, inner and outer, individual and collective—through writing in space, collaboration with visual and installation artist Maggie Nowinski, and dialogue with the Western Massachusetts Collective Imagination Group for Spatial Justice (the latter funded by a NEFA grant). mariajosetranslates.com/publications photo by Julian Parker-Burns |
Plus: Motion State Dance Film Series!
Thursday January 14, 2021
6:30 PM–8:00 PM
Presenting highlights from the first two seasons of the Motion State Dance Film Series! Streaming direct to your cozy living room. Tune in for a talk with co-founders of Motion State Arts (along with Lila Hurwitz and David Henry) Ali Kenner Brodsky and Andy Russ about the artists and project prior to the screening. Including dance films from:
- Cid Pearlman (USA)
- Kim Karpanty (USA)
- Ragnhildur Birta Ásmundsdóttir & Bixta None (Iceland)
- Avery Gerhardt (USA)
- Jennifer Scully-Thurston (USA)
- Kate Mitchell (USA)
- Inbal Pinto & Etgar Keret (Israel)
- Holly Wilder (USA)
- RM Vaughan & Jared Mitchell (Canada)
- Erik Alunurm, Mihkel Reha, Mari-Liis Rebane, Mari Pakkas (Estonia)
DARK TIMES
Solstice Installation by Christopher Janke
In the Workroom at 33 Hawley St.
Viewing on Sunday & Monday, December 20 & 21: 11:30-3:30
No reservations needed. Masks and physical distancing required.
Dark Times is low-tech temporary installation, a sketch of sorts. Intended to create a meditative space for the darkest day of a very dark year: the COVID winter solstice, when currently there is a death due to the disease about once every eight seconds.
Dark Times uses the simplest of optics – a hole cut in a window covering to create a camera obscura, bringing the outside world into a raw, cavernous, cathedral-like space. The light enters at 30 feet up and casts images of the world on the wall, so dim they can be hard to see. The opening for light also allows direct sunlight through during the afternoon, casting a moving orb across a wall, creating two 12-foot-by-15-foot cyanotypes, which when complete, will be marked only with a single blue scar from the movement of the sun through one day.
Before 2020, the word “pandemic” was reserved mostly for epidemiologists and apocalyptic thinkers. As 2021 begins, there is hope for putting the pandemic behind us. Dark Times is intended as a space to reflect or consider the heavy implications of our current winter, in a place for reflection, as the light and darkness from the outside are cast onto unfinished space within.
Solstice Installation by Christopher Janke
In the Workroom at 33 Hawley St.
Viewing on Sunday & Monday, December 20 & 21: 11:30-3:30
No reservations needed. Masks and physical distancing required.
Dark Times is low-tech temporary installation, a sketch of sorts. Intended to create a meditative space for the darkest day of a very dark year: the COVID winter solstice, when currently there is a death due to the disease about once every eight seconds.
Dark Times uses the simplest of optics – a hole cut in a window covering to create a camera obscura, bringing the outside world into a raw, cavernous, cathedral-like space. The light enters at 30 feet up and casts images of the world on the wall, so dim they can be hard to see. The opening for light also allows direct sunlight through during the afternoon, casting a moving orb across a wall, creating two 12-foot-by-15-foot cyanotypes, which when complete, will be marked only with a single blue scar from the movement of the sun through one day.
Before 2020, the word “pandemic” was reserved mostly for epidemiologists and apocalyptic thinkers. As 2021 begins, there is hope for putting the pandemic behind us. Dark Times is intended as a space to reflect or consider the heavy implications of our current winter, in a place for reflection, as the light and darkness from the outside are cast onto unfinished space within.
THE WORKROOM@33Hawley
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Build a Floor Project in honor of artist Nancy Stark Smith, hosted by Andrea Olsen
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Build a Floor Project in honor of artist Nancy Stark Smith, hosted by Andrea Olsen
Serious Play Theatre Ensemble's MOVING WATER Project
This year-long development of the ensemble piece Moving Water is moving ahead via Skype, as musician Jonny Rodgers dials in from Oregon to work with playwright Eric Sanders and the cast, scattered around the Valley.
Stay tuned for news of public offerings in Summer 2021!
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
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RESIDENCY OPPORTUNITIES
In theater, music, performance art, dance...at 33 Hawley ARTIST RESIDENCY during 4th weekend of each month Monday through Sunday Artist Residency (limited to 4th weekend of each month) Residency Rental includes: • 20 hours of rehearsal space • One evening for a work in progress showing • Informal, no tech showing either in the Dance Studio or the Flex Space 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 more info. |