Past Events, A.P.E. @ Hawley Street
2023
DECONSTRUCTIONS
Works by Adrienne Albro-Fisher, Isabela Cusano,
and Henry Prentiss
January 6 - February 26, 2023
Mezzanine Gallery @ 33 Hawley
Deconstructions features new work by three UMass Amherst Studio Arts undergraduate students: Adrienne Albro-Fisher, Isabela Cusano, and Henry Prentiss. The exhibition explores vulnerability, decay, displacement, and claustrophobia, presenting viewers with reflections on human relationships with organic and constructed environments.
FEBRUARY 10 at ARTS NIGHT OUT
PENNIES FOR BREAKFAST
Pennies for Breakfast is a band made up of classical musicians, songwriters and actors. The group consists of Luca Kevorkian and Marta Djorovic on the violins, Jackson Pelz on guitar, and Isabelle Bushue on vocals. The quartet develops their music through improvisations, often creating form in front of an audience. While experimenting in sound driven storytelling, the Pennies ask questions regarding the relationship between music, performance, and what it means to compose.
INDETERMINATE DANCING: A New Year's Master Class
with Sarah Lass
Saturday January 7th
Move into the New Year with sensitivity and purpose during this intermediate-advanced level contemporary technique master class. Structured as a series of movement accumulations, class will progress from the floor to standing, and culminate in nuanced, full-bodied phrase work.
Sarah Lass is a Colorado-raised, Massachusetts-based dancer, choreographer, writer, and teacher. Across modes of creative output, her work explores intersections between embodiment, perception, place, and design, and her research unfolds through a transdisciplinary process of dancemaking and creative writing. Her choreography has been presented and supported by residencies at Basin Arts Center (Lafayette, LA), the School for Contemporary Dance and Thought (Northampton, MA), 10forward (Greenfield, MA), and Triskelion Arts (NY, NY).
with Sarah Lass
Saturday January 7th
Move into the New Year with sensitivity and purpose during this intermediate-advanced level contemporary technique master class. Structured as a series of movement accumulations, class will progress from the floor to standing, and culminate in nuanced, full-bodied phrase work.
Sarah Lass is a Colorado-raised, Massachusetts-based dancer, choreographer, writer, and teacher. Across modes of creative output, her work explores intersections between embodiment, perception, place, and design, and her research unfolds through a transdisciplinary process of dancemaking and creative writing. Her choreography has been presented and supported by residencies at Basin Arts Center (Lafayette, LA), the School for Contemporary Dance and Thought (Northampton, MA), 10forward (Greenfield, MA), and Triskelion Arts (NY, NY).
2022
Moving Between Worlds:
Workshop and Book Conversation with Andrea Olsen
Sunday, December 4
Dance Studio and Mezzanine
33 Hawley, Northampton, MA
• Workshop •
Exploring Seven Movement Practices for Embodied Living and Communicating
This event is based on explorations in Olsen’s newest book, Moving Between Worlds: A Guide to Embodied Living and Communicating
• Book Celebration •
A conversation hosted by Sarah Lass with Andrea Olsen, Chris Aiken (preface author), and collaborating visual artists about embodiment in creative work and daily living.
Workshop and Book Conversation with Andrea Olsen
Sunday, December 4
Dance Studio and Mezzanine
33 Hawley, Northampton, MA
• Workshop •
Exploring Seven Movement Practices for Embodied Living and Communicating
This event is based on explorations in Olsen’s newest book, Moving Between Worlds: A Guide to Embodied Living and Communicating
• Book Celebration •
A conversation hosted by Sarah Lass with Andrea Olsen, Chris Aiken (preface author), and collaborating visual artists about embodiment in creative work and daily living.
Illistration by Cass Sachs-Michaels
A THOUSAND WAYS (Part Three): An Assembly by 600 Highwaymen
Obie Award-winning 600 HIGHWAYMEN present A Thousand Ways (Part Three): An Assembly, a timely and intimate return to togetherness. A Thousand Ways: An Assembly brings together an audience of sixteen strangers to construct a unique and intimate theatrical event. Using a shared script, an evocative story of perseverance comes into focus, tracing how we consider one another individually and collectively after so much time apart. This experience is enacted by you and the other audience members.
A Thousand Ways: An Assembly is the final experience of the Obie Award-winning 600 Highwaymen’s triptych of encounters between strangers. Each installment of the series plumbs the essence of performance, bringing people together in the creation of a moving live experience. The work explores the line between strangeness and kinship, distance and proximity, and how the most intimate assembly can become profoundly radical.
A Thousand Ways
by 600 HIGHWAYMEN
Written & created by Abigail Browde & Michael Silverstone
Executive Producer: Thomas O. Kriegsmann / ArKtype
Dramaturg & Project Design: Andrew Kircher
Line Producer: Sami Pyne
Obie Award-winning 600 HIGHWAYMEN present A Thousand Ways (Part Three): An Assembly, a timely and intimate return to togetherness. A Thousand Ways: An Assembly brings together an audience of sixteen strangers to construct a unique and intimate theatrical event. Using a shared script, an evocative story of perseverance comes into focus, tracing how we consider one another individually and collectively after so much time apart. This experience is enacted by you and the other audience members.
A Thousand Ways: An Assembly is the final experience of the Obie Award-winning 600 Highwaymen’s triptych of encounters between strangers. Each installment of the series plumbs the essence of performance, bringing people together in the creation of a moving live experience. The work explores the line between strangeness and kinship, distance and proximity, and how the most intimate assembly can become profoundly radical.
A Thousand Ways
by 600 HIGHWAYMEN
Written & created by Abigail Browde & Michael Silverstone
Executive Producer: Thomas O. Kriegsmann / ArKtype
Dramaturg & Project Design: Andrew Kircher
Line Producer: Sami Pyne
PLANT
a new absurdist comedy
by Isabelle Bushue and Jackson Pelz
Saturday, October 29th
A.P.E.'s Workroom Theater
33 Hawley, Northampton , MA
part of THE LAB at A.P.E.
The story of the insomniac, Sylvia, and her spiritually confused, unnamed houseplant who slowly gains consciousness through an infatuation with its caretaker. Using song structure, 'everyday' knowledge, religious belief, and the relationship between language and mathematics, Plant underlines the barriers that cause people saying to same thing to completely misinterpret each other.
a new absurdist comedy
by Isabelle Bushue and Jackson Pelz
Saturday, October 29th
A.P.E.'s Workroom Theater
33 Hawley, Northampton , MA
part of THE LAB at A.P.E.
The story of the insomniac, Sylvia, and her spiritually confused, unnamed houseplant who slowly gains consciousness through an infatuation with its caretaker. Using song structure, 'everyday' knowledge, religious belief, and the relationship between language and mathematics, Plant underlines the barriers that cause people saying to same thing to completely misinterpret each other.
Tatsuya Nakatani Gong Orchestra
Thursday October 27
The NAKATANI GONG ORCHESTRA is a contemporary live sound art project that tours internationally.
NGO is a continuous, growing community engagement sound art project; and the only bowing Gong orchestra in existence in the world today. Artistic concept, musical composition, conduction, and direction are Tatsuya Nakatani. For each performance, participating gong players are selected by a local presenter or the curator. Nakatani gives a specialized “training workshop” to gong players in preparation for the performance. Players will also learn Nakatani’s own unique point of view regarding gong techniques and will experience undiscovered dimensions while immersed in the sounds during a training workshop.
FIRST GENERATION presents
MOTHER TONGUE
Saturday October 22
Sunday October 23
at
A.P.E.'s Workroom Theater
“Mother Tongue” is a 90 minute original multilingual physical theater performance, created by First Generation Ensemble. The piece is inspired by events and family stories from Congo/Tanzania, Burundi/Nepal, South Sudan, Holyoke, and Springfield. “Mother Tongue” incorporates movement, music, and text in four languages (Arabic, Swahili, Nepali, and English). Themes touch on war and displacement, family, culture, and first generation identities.
photo by Peter Raper
Moving Through: Celebrating Peter B. Schmitz
OCTOBER 14th-16th
A weekend of events honoring dance/theatre artist Peter B. Schmitz,
celebrating his creativity and impact on the artistic community.
Co-hosted by A.P.E, SCDT, and Northampton Open Media
Felt Absence of a Presence: an installation gathering space
Created by Kathy Couch, Katherine Sanderson, and Joey Trazo Schmitz
A meditative space to reflect, read, dance, sit, tell stories and be present with the space–alone or with others–in memory of Peter B. Schmitz.
OCTOBER 14th-16th
A weekend of events honoring dance/theatre artist Peter B. Schmitz,
celebrating his creativity and impact on the artistic community.
Co-hosted by A.P.E, SCDT, and Northampton Open Media
Felt Absence of a Presence: an installation gathering space
Created by Kathy Couch, Katherine Sanderson, and Joey Trazo Schmitz
A meditative space to reflect, read, dance, sit, tell stories and be present with the space–alone or with others–in memory of Peter B. Schmitz.
Moving Through: Performance Works created in relationship with Peter Schmitz
Includes works by Andrea Olsen, Paul Matteson, Mary Beth Brooker and Kathy Couch, Peter Schmitz (recording), Anne Love Woodhull, Pamela Vail, Maya Laliberte and Joey Schmitz, Katherine Sanderson and guests .
VIDEO OF 12pm performance
Includes works by Andrea Olsen, Paul Matteson, Mary Beth Brooker and Kathy Couch, Peter Schmitz (recording), Anne Love Woodhull, Pamela Vail, Maya Laliberte and Joey Schmitz, Katherine Sanderson and guests .
VIDEO OF 12pm performance
Reset: Restoring Easeful Movement: a workshop with Caryn McHose and Andrea Olsen
Together, we will explore three practices that you can do on your own to establish the delicious flow between groundedness and spaciousness in daily life or artistic practice.
Together, we will explore three practices that you can do on your own to establish the delicious flow between groundedness and spaciousness in daily life or artistic practice.
EXCHANGE
Sunday, September 18th
A.P.E.'s Workroom Theater at 33 Hawley
Six artists share movement-based performance works engaging questions of “exchange”: cultural, environmental, physical, and imaginative. Featuring performances from Lauren Horn (Hartford, CT), Rebecca Pappas (Hartford, CT), Tyler Rai (Northampton), Tori Lawrence (Chesterfield), Ellie Goudie-Averil (Chesterfield), and Sakina Ibrahim (Springfield/LA).
The Northampton Arts Council highlights dance in collaboration with SCDT and A.P.E.
Sunday, September 18th
A.P.E.'s Workroom Theater at 33 Hawley
Six artists share movement-based performance works engaging questions of “exchange”: cultural, environmental, physical, and imaginative. Featuring performances from Lauren Horn (Hartford, CT), Rebecca Pappas (Hartford, CT), Tyler Rai (Northampton), Tori Lawrence (Chesterfield), Ellie Goudie-Averil (Chesterfield), and Sakina Ibrahim (Springfield/LA).
The Northampton Arts Council highlights dance in collaboration with SCDT and A.P.E.
The Leafies You Gave Me presents:
In Dreams, featuring Space Camp and Hedgewitch
Saturday, August 27
A.P.E.'s Workroom Theater at 33 Hawley
Image: Adrienne Albro-Fisher
Works by Adrienne Albro-Fisher and Chloe McLean
A.P.E.@Hawley
Mezzanine and Lower level lobby, 33 Hawley Street
August 4 - 30, 2022
Artist Reception: Friday August 12: 5-8 pm: Arts Night Out
A.P.E.@Hawley
Mezzanine and Lower level lobby, 33 Hawley Street
August 4 - 30, 2022
Artist Reception: Friday August 12: 5-8 pm: Arts Night Out
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:
Works by Anna Bayles Arthur and Victor Signore
A.P.E. @ Hawley
Mezzanine Level gallery, 33 Hawley Street
In Search of Edge: New Small Works by Anna Bayles Arthur
As the planet burns and floods and human beings extinguish each others’ lives in brutal and rapid succession, it is increasingly difficult to comprehend any utility in sitting in one’s studio with a box of paints and a jar of sharp pencils. And yet. We persist. There is no sense to be made of it, of any of it...only here is a profoundly human act that in its most basic sense, approximates prayer.
On the threshold of a silence bursting: New work by Victor Signore
The new work in this show marks a return for me. A return home. Home to the creative process. Home to myself. To provide that missing outlet for the mounting thoughts, images, feelings, anxieties and amorphous, intangible senses that while, remain elusive as vapor, are too strong to ignore.
A.P.E. @ Hawley
Mezzanine Level gallery, 33 Hawley Street
In Search of Edge: New Small Works by Anna Bayles Arthur
As the planet burns and floods and human beings extinguish each others’ lives in brutal and rapid succession, it is increasingly difficult to comprehend any utility in sitting in one’s studio with a box of paints and a jar of sharp pencils. And yet. We persist. There is no sense to be made of it, of any of it...only here is a profoundly human act that in its most basic sense, approximates prayer.
On the threshold of a silence bursting: New work by Victor Signore
The new work in this show marks a return for me. A return home. Home to the creative process. Home to myself. To provide that missing outlet for the mounting thoughts, images, feelings, anxieties and amorphous, intangible senses that while, remain elusive as vapor, are too strong to ignore.
Our Texts and Shift Again
an exhibition & video performance with live singing
Our Texts and Shift Again are part of Sara Smith’s ongoing project Inside the Breath: In Network Time (INT). In the borderless future world of INT we honor Gloria Anzaldúa’s writings, octopuses, and our multi-species interconnected consciousness.
Our Texts is a series of prints and zines containing texts from the world of INT, and exists across and between virtual space and the physical space of 33 Hawley Street. Each print is accompanied by a scannable QR code that links to a related audio work online.
Shift Again is a multi-projector video performance with live singing by members of the Network Time Small Human Chorus.
Our Texts will be on view at the Workroom from Sunday July 24 to Sunday July 31.
Shift Again will happen at two matinee performances in the Workroom on Sunday, July 24
an exhibition & video performance with live singing
Our Texts and Shift Again are part of Sara Smith’s ongoing project Inside the Breath: In Network Time (INT). In the borderless future world of INT we honor Gloria Anzaldúa’s writings, octopuses, and our multi-species interconnected consciousness.
Our Texts is a series of prints and zines containing texts from the world of INT, and exists across and between virtual space and the physical space of 33 Hawley Street. Each print is accompanied by a scannable QR code that links to a related audio work online.
Shift Again is a multi-projector video performance with live singing by members of the Network Time Small Human Chorus.
Our Texts will be on view at the Workroom from Sunday July 24 to Sunday July 31.
Shift Again will happen at two matinee performances in the Workroom on Sunday, July 24
Raveling <>Reweaving
Three works of dance performance by:
Rebecca Pappas, Tatyana Tenenbaum, Lailye Weidman
July 15-17, 2022
The Workroom, 33 Hawley Street
Part of the Distributed Curation program at APE@Hawley
In this shared weekend of programming, dance artists Rebecca Pappas, Tatyana Tenenbaum, and Lailye Weidman will present performances that interweave through and around questions related to personal ancestry, Jewish lineage, settler-colonial heritage and its ongoing impacts on relationships to land and the body. Each work takes a distinct approach to methods of archiving and excavation in order to unfurl the knotted threads of situated present-day identities.
Pappas, Tenenbaum, and Weidman have been in residence at APE@Hawley since 2020 as part of the Distributed Curation program. Each artist will present their work as part of this shared weekend of events, with opportunities to see all three works in one evening, or to see shorter performances and return on multiple days.
Three works of dance performance by:
Rebecca Pappas, Tatyana Tenenbaum, Lailye Weidman
July 15-17, 2022
The Workroom, 33 Hawley Street
Part of the Distributed Curation program at APE@Hawley
In this shared weekend of programming, dance artists Rebecca Pappas, Tatyana Tenenbaum, and Lailye Weidman will present performances that interweave through and around questions related to personal ancestry, Jewish lineage, settler-colonial heritage and its ongoing impacts on relationships to land and the body. Each work takes a distinct approach to methods of archiving and excavation in order to unfurl the knotted threads of situated present-day identities.
Pappas, Tenenbaum, and Weidman have been in residence at APE@Hawley since 2020 as part of the Distributed Curation program. Each artist will present their work as part of this shared weekend of events, with opportunities to see all three works in one evening, or to see shorter performances and return on multiple days.
Renaissance Gyal
Choreography by Lauren Horn in collaboration with the dancers
Performers: Chantal Edwards, Jasmine McPherson, Loren Milledge and Lauren Horn
Friday, July 8 & Saturday, July 9
The Workroom, 33 Hawley Street
Renaissance Gyal is a choreographic work, set on a cast of four Black women, that explores the ways in which Black women have set a precedence for culture in America, while simultaneously being erased. In Renaissance Gyal the term Black is used heterogeneously. The Black women of Renaissance Gyal encompass the experiences of those of Afro-Caribbean, Afro-Latina, Afro-American and African heritage who have come to live in America and it is their stories that are told throughout the piece. Renaissance Gyal is a reflection of how American Blackness is a melting pot of many different cultures that unite under the term of Blackness.
Choreography by Lauren Horn in collaboration with the dancers
Performers: Chantal Edwards, Jasmine McPherson, Loren Milledge and Lauren Horn
Friday, July 8 & Saturday, July 9
The Workroom, 33 Hawley Street
Renaissance Gyal is a choreographic work, set on a cast of four Black women, that explores the ways in which Black women have set a precedence for culture in America, while simultaneously being erased. In Renaissance Gyal the term Black is used heterogeneously. The Black women of Renaissance Gyal encompass the experiences of those of Afro-Caribbean, Afro-Latina, Afro-American and African heritage who have come to live in America and it is their stories that are told throughout the piece. Renaissance Gyal is a reflection of how American Blackness is a melting pot of many different cultures that unite under the term of Blackness.
Real Live Theatre presents a staged reading of
The Gentle Villainy of Richard III, Troubler of the Poor World's Peace.
JULY 10, 2PM
An adaptation of William Shakespeare’s Richard III which situates the story of power-hungry Richard as a cautionary bedtime tale told by Queen Margaret to the audience shortly after the death of her husband and son.
Adapted from the Shakespeare & Directed by Toby Vera Bercovici.
With Choreography by Annelise Nielsen.
FEATURING:
Jeannine Haas, AEA
Linda Tardif
Ellen Morbyrne
Myka Plunkett
Rachel Hall
Trenda Loftin
Dan Morbyrne
The Gentle Villainy of Richard III, Troubler of the Poor World's Peace.
JULY 10, 2PM
An adaptation of William Shakespeare’s Richard III which situates the story of power-hungry Richard as a cautionary bedtime tale told by Queen Margaret to the audience shortly after the death of her husband and son.
Adapted from the Shakespeare & Directed by Toby Vera Bercovici.
With Choreography by Annelise Nielsen.
FEATURING:
Jeannine Haas, AEA
Linda Tardif
Ellen Morbyrne
Myka Plunkett
Rachel Hall
Trenda Loftin
Dan Morbyrne
how many times
Installation, performance, and improvisation with visual artist-sculptor Rosalyn Driscoll and dancer-choreographer Paul Matteson
June 13-19, 2022
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 enacts a different lifetime, from birth to death. Driscoll is also present, drawing and making sculpture.
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.
Video of How Many Times: https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/730665770
Installation, performance, and improvisation with visual artist-sculptor Rosalyn Driscoll and dancer-choreographer Paul Matteson
June 13-19, 2022
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 enacts a different lifetime, from birth to death. Driscoll is also present, drawing and making sculpture.
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.
Video of How Many Times: https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/730665770
SCDT COACHING PROJECT with Vanessa Anspaugh
MAY 22-June 10, 2022
All Participants Required for rehearsal hours.
Public showing: Friday June 10, 7pm
MORE INFO on SCDT's site HERE
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!
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!
Dance Wrecking, with Rebecca Pappas and Hilary Clark
Saturday, April 9
The Workroom, 33 Hawley
Dance Artist Hilary Clark will publicly "wreck" My Body as the Topic Coming Around Again, a new dance work by choreographer Rebecca Pappas, featuring performers Ellen Smith Ahern, Dot Armstrong, Alexis Robbins, and Taylor Zappone. During this durational event, Clark will intervene in the piece, remixing, rearranging, and re-examining the work. There will be opening and closing showings, and the public is invited to come and go during the event.
Saturday, April 9
The Workroom, 33 Hawley
Dance Artist Hilary Clark will publicly "wreck" My Body as the Topic Coming Around Again, a new dance work by choreographer Rebecca Pappas, featuring performers Ellen Smith Ahern, Dot Armstrong, Alexis Robbins, and Taylor Zappone. During this durational event, Clark will intervene in the piece, remixing, rearranging, and re-examining the work. There will be opening and closing showings, and the public is invited to come and go during the event.
Bread & Puppet Theater
Sunday, March 20
The Workroom, 33 Hawley Street
Bread & Puppet comes to Northampton, MA with Finished Waiting, a new show created this winter by B&P director, Peter Schumann and the storied Vermont troupe of puppeteers, carpenters, bus drivers, musicians, dancers, agitators and bread-bakers—many of whom do all of the above in the process of inventing Bread & Puppet's aesthetically iconic and politically plainspoken shows and bringing them to audiences far and wide.
Finished Waiting is a show for this moment of political, social, ecological, and epidemiological rupture and uncertainty, a moment in which many feel the seduction of a stance of waiting: waiting for the pandemic to be over, for better leaders to be elected, for actions to be taken by the powerful to respond to ecological catastrophe, for families to be reunited or seemingly eternal wars to end.
Sunday, March 20
The Workroom, 33 Hawley Street
Bread & Puppet comes to Northampton, MA with Finished Waiting, a new show created this winter by B&P director, Peter Schumann and the storied Vermont troupe of puppeteers, carpenters, bus drivers, musicians, dancers, agitators and bread-bakers—many of whom do all of the above in the process of inventing Bread & Puppet's aesthetically iconic and politically plainspoken shows and bringing them to audiences far and wide.
Finished Waiting is a show for this moment of political, social, ecological, and epidemiological rupture and uncertainty, a moment in which many feel the seduction of a stance of waiting: waiting for the pandemic to be over, for better leaders to be elected, for actions to be taken by the powerful to respond to ecological catastrophe, for families to be reunited or seemingly eternal wars to end.
The ArtSalon goes to 33 Hawley!
The ArtSalon is a dynamic social evening of engaging presentations by established and emerging artists in the Pioneer Valley. The ArtSalon provides an opportunity for artists and designers of all mediums to present their work and ideas in a format called Pecha Kucha (pronounced peh-chak-cha). Come meet and join the artists, creators, critics, and collectors in a friendly, social gathering of conversations about the arts in our community.
Presenting artists for the February 11th event are: Ryan Murray, Mahwish Christy, Ashley Eliza Williams, Grace Kubilius
The ArtSalon is a dynamic social evening of engaging presentations by established and emerging artists in the Pioneer Valley. The ArtSalon provides an opportunity for artists and designers of all mediums to present their work and ideas in a format called Pecha Kucha (pronounced peh-chak-cha). Come meet and join the artists, creators, critics, and collectors in a friendly, social gathering of conversations about the arts in our community.
Presenting artists for the February 11th event are: Ryan Murray, Mahwish Christy, Ashley Eliza Williams, Grace Kubilius
2021
HATCHERY WINTER SHOWCASE
DECEMBER 18
DECEMBER 19
The School For Contemporary Dance & Thought (SCDT) presents world premiers of new work by The Hatchery Company and guests Lauren Horn and Vanessa Anspaugh. TIMELESS is a celebration of dance and represents the essential voices of young artists during these times of struggle, change, and growth in our world.
Featuring works by Hatchery members:
ARIN ANDREWS
RHIANNON CAMPBELL
MARIA DEAN
EDY SAVAGE
GRETA HOUGEN-SMITH
STELLA TEMPLIN
DECEMBER 18
DECEMBER 19
The School For Contemporary Dance & Thought (SCDT) presents world premiers of new work by The Hatchery Company and guests Lauren Horn and Vanessa Anspaugh. TIMELESS is a celebration of dance and represents the essential voices of young artists during these times of struggle, change, and growth in our world.
Featuring works by Hatchery members:
ARIN ANDREWS
RHIANNON CAMPBELL
MARIA DEAN
EDY SAVAGE
GRETA HOUGEN-SMITH
STELLA TEMPLIN
Winter Makers' Market
Sunday, December 12
33 Hawley, Lobby and Mezzanine
Local artists peddling pottery, textiles, prints, and more!
Winter Makers' Market
Sunday, December 12
33 Hawley, Lobby and Mezzanine
Local artists peddling pottery, textiles, prints, and more!
The Leafies You Gave Me
Saturday, November 27
The Leafies are a 10 piece band from the not-so-happy valley of Western MA. An eclectic array of genres covering everything from pop to free jazz to hardcore. Stage shows have been referred to as “Broadway On Acid.” A series of interconnected stories create a unified experience dealing with topics such as organized religion, anxiety disorders, gender roles, castrati, and a little romance.
Props, costumes, and THE GIANT CLAM! Everything is not going to be alright! But Leafies strive to make this world a better place for you and me to live. Join us in our fight against the Happy New Beard's club and help us bring down their senseless homophobia, intimidation, and ridiculous assumptions about gender!
Saturday, November 27
The Leafies are a 10 piece band from the not-so-happy valley of Western MA. An eclectic array of genres covering everything from pop to free jazz to hardcore. Stage shows have been referred to as “Broadway On Acid.” A series of interconnected stories create a unified experience dealing with topics such as organized religion, anxiety disorders, gender roles, castrati, and a little romance.
Props, costumes, and THE GIANT CLAM! Everything is not going to be alright! But Leafies strive to make this world a better place for you and me to live. Join us in our fight against the Happy New Beard's club and help us bring down their senseless homophobia, intimidation, and ridiculous assumptions about gender!
Open Field Press is celebrating the launch of three new books of poetry!
Friday, November 5
The Workroom, 33 Hawley
Open Field Press launches three new collections of poetry from Trish Crapo of Leyden, Bill O’Connell, and Anne Love Woodhull, both of Amherst. All three are members of Group 18, the decades-long critique group founded by poets Linda Gregg and Jim Finnegan. Based in Northampton, Group 18 has included many renowned poets.
Friday, November 5
The Workroom, 33 Hawley
Open Field Press launches three new collections of poetry from Trish Crapo of Leyden, Bill O’Connell, and Anne Love Woodhull, both of Amherst. All three are members of Group 18, the decades-long critique group founded by poets Linda Gregg and Jim Finnegan. Based in Northampton, Group 18 has included many renowned poets.
MACBETH
Produced by Hilary Dennis
When an ambitious military captain is prophesied to become King of Scotland by three witches, his desire for instant gratification becomes a treasonous, bloody unraveling. As the culminating project of a week-long artist residency at A.P.E.@Hawley, eight brave actors perform Macbeth.
Featuring:
Vaughn Pole
Justin Viz
Jelena Djukic
Jane MacLaughlin
Kristen Moriarty
Joseph Cardozo
Mary Potts Dennis
Hilary Dennis
Produced by Hilary Dennis
When an ambitious military captain is prophesied to become King of Scotland by three witches, his desire for instant gratification becomes a treasonous, bloody unraveling. As the culminating project of a week-long artist residency at A.P.E.@Hawley, eight brave actors perform Macbeth.
Featuring:
Vaughn Pole
Justin Viz
Jelena Djukic
Jane MacLaughlin
Kristen Moriarty
Joseph Cardozo
Mary Potts Dennis
Hilary Dennis
Photo by William Frederking
A.P.E.@HAWLEY and THE SCHOOL FOR CONTEMPORARY DANCE & THOUGHT present
FEET TO THE FLOOR
FUNDRAISER AND FESTIVAL
SEPTEMBER 30 - OCTOBER 3, 2021
IN-PERSON and ONLINE
A FUNDRAISING FESTIVAL to support opening the Workroom Theater at 33 Hawley and create a resilient floor for dancing, honoring movement artist Nancy Stark Smith.
Featuring classes, workshops, performances and events with dance and visual artists, cultural historians, and poets Chris Aiken, Doug Anderson, Miguel Castillo, Trish Crapo, Rosalyn Driscoll, Angie Hauser, Paul Jacobs, Rachel Jenkins, Shayla-Vie Jenkins, Margaret Lloyd, Henry Lyman, Cameron McKinney, Missy-Marie Montgomery, Cameron McKinney, Paul Matteson, Andrea Olsen, Bill O’Connell, Claudia-Lynn Rightmire, Laurie Sanders, Simon Thomas-Train, Anne Woodhull, HATCHERY and MORE!
FEET TO THE FLOOR
FUNDRAISER AND FESTIVAL
SEPTEMBER 30 - OCTOBER 3, 2021
IN-PERSON and ONLINE
A FUNDRAISING FESTIVAL to support opening the Workroom Theater at 33 Hawley and create a resilient floor for dancing, honoring movement artist Nancy Stark Smith.
Featuring classes, workshops, performances and events with dance and visual artists, cultural historians, and poets Chris Aiken, Doug Anderson, Miguel Castillo, Trish Crapo, Rosalyn Driscoll, Angie Hauser, Paul Jacobs, Rachel Jenkins, Shayla-Vie Jenkins, Margaret Lloyd, Henry Lyman, Cameron McKinney, Missy-Marie Montgomery, Cameron McKinney, Paul Matteson, Andrea Olsen, Bill O’Connell, Claudia-Lynn Rightmire, Laurie Sanders, Simon Thomas-Train, Anne Woodhull, HATCHERY and MORE!
MOVING WATER
July 22-25
Serious Play and the Ko Festival of Performance present the premiere of MOVING WATER, devised by Serious Play and written by Eric Henry Sanders. Special live, in-person post-show discussion with the creative team following the July 25, 4pm matinee!
Directed by Sheryl Stoodley with collaborating artists & collaborative playwright Eric Henry Sanders, MOVING WATER is a devised physical theatre production centered on the global water crisis, with highly visual staging, a diverse ensemble, choreographed movement, video environments, and original music. This poetic, absurdist and often humorous work brings audiences into a deeper appreciation for, and understanding of, our human relationship to water.
July 22-25
Serious Play and the Ko Festival of Performance present the premiere of MOVING WATER, devised by Serious Play and written by Eric Henry Sanders. Special live, in-person post-show discussion with the creative team following the July 25, 4pm matinee!
Directed by Sheryl Stoodley with collaborating artists & collaborative playwright Eric Henry Sanders, MOVING WATER is a devised physical theatre production centered on the global water crisis, with highly visual staging, a diverse ensemble, choreographed movement, video environments, and original music. This poetic, absurdist and often humorous work brings audiences into a deeper appreciation for, and understanding of, our human relationship to water.
ACCESS/AXIS 2021
January 9-31
ACCESS / AXIS: a month long program at 33 Hawley Street in January 2021, 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. This project was curated via "distributed curation," where we invite artists in residence to invite other artists who may have not worked with A.P.E. before, thus widening our networks and supporting more inclusivity in our programming.
"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.
Artists in residence include: Jasmin Agosto, Rebecca Pappas, mayfield brooks, Tatyana Tenenbaum & Hadar Ahuvia, Doug LeCours, Amir Hall, Willie Filkowski, Sara Smith, and María José Giménez.
Plus: Motion State Dance Film Series
Thursday January 14, 2021
6:30 PM–8:00 PM
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This project was supported by a Local Cultural Council grant from The Northampton Arts Council. |
2020
DARK TIMES
Solstice Installation by Christopher Janke
Viewing on Sunday & Monday, December 20 & 21
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.
Image by Joey T. Schmitz
The Fever, by Wallace Shawn
October 31-November 1, 2020 at 33 Hawley
Performed by Peter B. Schmitz & Directed by John Hellweg.
The Fever was awarded an Obie for Best New American Play in 1991.
From The New York Times: “Mr. Shawn exposes the contradictions and compromises of the urban liberal mind with a mercilessness that is sly and at times hilarious.”
Practicing Presence 2020
September 24-27:
PRACTICING PRESENCE FESTIVAL 2020 features four days of online classes, workshops, talks, and performance events offering opportunities for clearing, calming, energizing, and focusing the body-mind for the challenges at hand.
Hosted by SCDT and A.P.E. in Northampton, MA, the full festival is available globally by Zoom. This year we honor our dear friend and inspirational dance artist Nancy Stark Smith as well as activating/mobilizing toward issues central to our time.
On site artists: Chris Aiken, Kathy Couch, Sha Harrell, Angie Hauser, Jen Nugent, Jen Polins, Jenna Riegel, Peter Schmitz, Batya Sobel, plus Zoom connections: Scotty Hardwig, Julie Larisoa, Andrea Olsen, and Lisa Thompson.
September 24-27:
PRACTICING PRESENCE FESTIVAL 2020 features four days of online classes, workshops, talks, and performance events offering opportunities for clearing, calming, energizing, and focusing the body-mind for the challenges at hand.
Hosted by SCDT and A.P.E. in Northampton, MA, the full festival is available globally by Zoom. This year we honor our dear friend and inspirational dance artist Nancy Stark Smith as well as activating/mobilizing toward issues central to our time.
On site artists: Chris Aiken, Kathy Couch, Sha Harrell, Angie Hauser, Jen Nugent, Jen Polins, Jenna Riegel, Peter Schmitz, Batya Sobel, plus Zoom connections: Scotty Hardwig, Julie Larisoa, Andrea Olsen, and Lisa Thompson.
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.
VIDEO PROJECT BY
SERIOUS PLAY THEATRE ENSEMBLE
MOVING WATER
AUGUST 22-30
Walk by the A.P.E. window at 126 Main Street, Northampton to view the video loop displayed on the TV screen to share Serious Play Theatre Ensemble's first two short but fanciful storefront window experiments: Water Window One- Balloons, and Water Window Two-Sergei’s Daydream.
Water Window Videos at APE Gallery-Creative Performance Projects for the In Between.(The In Between refers to the time when we can be together as an ensemble in a small group, but before theatre spaces can re-open.) These video
experiments follow water themes and allow for an actor’s total physical expressiveness.
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.
VIDEO PROJECT BY
SERIOUS PLAY THEATRE ENSEMBLE
MOVING WATER
AUGUST 22-30
Walk by the A.P.E. window at 126 Main Street, Northampton to view the video loop displayed on the TV screen to share Serious Play Theatre Ensemble's first two short but fanciful storefront window experiments: Water Window One- Balloons, and Water Window Two-Sergei’s Daydream.
Water Window Videos at APE Gallery-Creative Performance Projects for the In Between.(The In Between refers to the time when we can be together as an ensemble in a small group, but before theatre spaces can re-open.) These video
experiments follow water themes and allow for an actor’s total physical expressiveness.
Lailye Weidman
DISTRIBUTED CURATION
JULY RESIDENCY PROGRAM AT 33 HAWLEY
The A.P.E. curatorial team has invited core artists into mini-residencies in the Flex Space at 33 Hawley St, during which the space is made available for any kind of creative exploration, process, or development. Each core artist was also responsible for inviting one additional local artist to also have a mini-residency of their own at some point during the month. We asked core artists to consider other artists who may not have worked at A.P.E. before, and who, in their own considerations, would benefit from access to creative space. Through this model, we hope to begin to address some of our concerns around access and inclusivity, and bridge increased connections with local artists in order to widen our creative networks.
Residency Artists include:
Lauren Horn, Meredith Bove, Nick Verdi, Sha Harrell, Lailye Weidman, Aamari Green, Deborah Goffe
JULY RESIDENCY PROGRAM AT 33 HAWLEY
The A.P.E. curatorial team has invited core artists into mini-residencies in the Flex Space at 33 Hawley St, during which the space is made available for any kind of creative exploration, process, or development. Each core artist was also responsible for inviting one additional local artist to also have a mini-residency of their own at some point during the month. We asked core artists to consider other artists who may not have worked at A.P.E. before, and who, in their own considerations, would benefit from access to creative space. Through this model, we hope to begin to address some of our concerns around access and inclusivity, and bridge increased connections with local artists in order to widen our creative networks.
Residency Artists include:
Lauren Horn, Meredith Bove, Nick Verdi, Sha Harrell, Lailye Weidman, Aamari Green, Deborah Goffe
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AUTHOR by a canary torsi
At the Bodies in Motion Festival from Jan. 17-31 AUTHOR is a participatory video installation that invites each visitor to interact with the 15 performers through a text-based computer game. Forming a poetically mediated stream-of-conscious between visitors and the text and video recordings generated by the project’s 15 performers, visitors navigate their relationship to the performers' language and images on the topics of performing, representation and casting. Resulting in strangely on-point, absurd exchanges, or non-sensical random connections, the algorithm of the game invites the author to discover their own voice inside the machine, to construct their own meaning in "conversation" with the personal material of 15 performers. MORE |
BODIES IN MOTION
JANUARY 4 - 31, 2020
PERFORMANCES • WORKSHOPS • CLASSES
A.P.E. @ HAWLEY, in collaboration with SCDT, is proud to be continuing the historic January movement series.
The Bodies In Motion Festival is modeled after A.P.E.'s 15 year movement series in the Thornes Market building, 3rd Floor. A month long series of weekend workshops and performances, this year's festival offers a TEEN DANCE WEEKEND, hosts over 15 Artists in Residence, and focuses on diverse approaches to dance as a performative art, including improvisation, contemporary performance, hip hop, and modern. Presented by local, national, and internationally acclaimed artists, these performances and workshops provide students and professionals alike with the unique opportunity to engage with highly regarded and innovative artists in the field of dance today. MORE
JANUARY 4 - 31, 2020
PERFORMANCES • WORKSHOPS • CLASSES
A.P.E. @ HAWLEY, in collaboration with SCDT, is proud to be continuing the historic January movement series.
The Bodies In Motion Festival is modeled after A.P.E.'s 15 year movement series in the Thornes Market building, 3rd Floor. A month long series of weekend workshops and performances, this year's festival offers a TEEN DANCE WEEKEND, hosts over 15 Artists in Residence, and focuses on diverse approaches to dance as a performative art, including improvisation, contemporary performance, hip hop, and modern. Presented by local, national, and internationally acclaimed artists, these performances and workshops provide students and professionals alike with the unique opportunity to engage with highly regarded and innovative artists in the field of dance today. MORE
2019
Photo by Robert Tobey
SOMATICS FESTIVAL 2019
ARCHIVAL WEBSITE: http://www.somatics2019.com/
Celebrating The Work of
JANET ADLER, BONNIE BAINBRIDGE COHEN, NANCY STARK SMITH and the 45-year Heritage of Contact Quarterly
THE FESTIVAL WAS HELD SEPTEMBER 19-23, 2019
IN NORTHAMPTON, MASSACHUSETTS
HOSTED BY A.P.E. @ Hawley and the School for Contemporary Dance & Thought, in collaboration with the Smith College Dance Department, Historic Northampton, & Northampton Open Media. Festival and website curator, Andrea Olsen, Website, editing, and media archiving, Scotty Hardwig.
ARCHIVAL WEBSITE: http://www.somatics2019.com/
Celebrating The Work of
JANET ADLER, BONNIE BAINBRIDGE COHEN, NANCY STARK SMITH and the 45-year Heritage of Contact Quarterly
THE FESTIVAL WAS HELD SEPTEMBER 19-23, 2019
IN NORTHAMPTON, MASSACHUSETTS
HOSTED BY A.P.E. @ Hawley and the School for Contemporary Dance & Thought, in collaboration with the Smith College Dance Department, Historic Northampton, & Northampton Open Media. Festival and website curator, Andrea Olsen, Website, editing, and media archiving, Scotty Hardwig.
The Leafies, You Gave Me, Album Release Concert, November 23, 2019, Flex Space
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The ArtSalon, Red Dot Dash, November 22, 2019
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Collective Ground, Mount Holyoke College Senior and Advanced Studio Arts Program, November, 2019
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Real Live Theater presents Athena by Gracie Gardner, October, 2019
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Serious Play Theatre Ensemble presents Wading In/Phase Two of Moving Water, October, 2019
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A.P.E. @ Hawley and SCDT present Somatics Festival, Celebrating The Work of Janet Adler, Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen, and Nancy Stark Smith and the 45-year Heritage of Contact Quarterly, September 19-23, 2019
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Vectors, Harriet Brickman, featuring Gordon Thorne, Herb Ferris, Kristina Madsen, Bill Arnold, Katherine Sanderson, Harriet Brickman, Philip Buller, Rosalyn Driscoll & Stephen Petegorsky, September 19-23, 2019
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Eight, curated by Kevin Pomerleau, with work by Madeline Chmielinski, Samson King, Jae Matthews, Beyon Wren Moor, Kevin Pomerleau, Valentina Sarfeh, Max Handelman-West & Esther S White, July 10-August 28, 2019
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What We See: Theater Works at 33 Hawley Street and SCDT, July 7 – August 4, 2019
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Serious Play Theatre Ensemble presents 'The Wall' by Jessica Litwak, June 2019
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Practicing Presence Festival, May 24-26, 2019
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Serious Play presents Jonny Rodgers and Cindertalk, April 26 & 27, 2019
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A Poetry Reading, Group 18, March 24, 2019
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The Fever by Wallace Shawn, performed by Peter B. Schmitz, directed by John Hellweg, March 22 & 23, 2019
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Historic Northampton, Film and Public Talks, February 21-23, 2019
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Bodies in Motion Festival, A.P.E. @ Hawley in collaboration with SCDT, January 10 - February 3, 2019
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Bodies in Motion: Visual Artists in Residence, image by Jil Crary-Ross, January 10 - February 3, 2019
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2018
Local Filmmakers Showcase, December 3, 2018
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The Storied Tellers' performance works by Mary Beth Brooker, Kathy Couch, Karinne Keithley Sayers, and Lailye Weidman, November 10, 2018
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The ArtSalon, Red Dot Dash, November 9, 2018
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For information on additional past A.P.E. @ Hawley events, please contact A.P.E. Gallery.