Name: Hawley St Ballet Spring 2025
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Description: Open Adult Contemporary Ballet w/ rotating teachers. Saturdays 10-11:30am in Carole's Dance Studio at 33 Hawley St

Hawley St Ballet Spring 2025

School For Contemporary Dance & Thought

Open Adult Contemporary Ballet w/ rotating teachers. Saturdays 10-11:30am in Carole's Dance Studio at 33 Hawley St

The Northampton Community Arts Trust, Workroom

<h1>Open Level Contemporary and Somatic Ballet Drop-in Class</h1>Note: we will no longer be holding Wednesday ballet. We apologize for the inconvenience and hope you can join us on Saturdays!Open to all levels who want to train together in a supportive environment. This program is for anyone who loves ballet, especially the people whom ballet has left out. Reimagine the standard components of a ballet class and prioritize joy, generosity, play, mutual admiration, and virtuosity.Spring 2025 Ballet Season:January 4-June 7Saturdays 10-11:30amCarole's Dance Studio at 33 Hawley StOpen to all who want to train together in a supportive environment.CLASS FEES:<ul><li>Student/Low Income: $15-$20</li><li>Employed/Financially Stable: $20-$25</li><li>Arts Supporter/Able to Give: $25-$500</li></ul>Questions? Call or email our program coordinator Jen: +1 (413) 695 1799 // jenscdt@gmail.com <h3>SCHEDULE</h3>January4- Ellie Goudie-Averill11-Michelle Marroquin18- Michelle Marroquin25- Russell JanzenFebruary1- Jen Polins8- Russell Janzen15- Michelle Marroquin22- Russell JanzenMarch1- Jen Polins8- Michelle Marroquin15- Ellie Goudie-Averill22- Ellie Goudie-Averill29- Russell JanzenApril5- Jen Polins12- Russell Janzen19-Russell Janzen26- Ellie Goudie-AverillMay3- Michelle Marroquin10- Michelle Marroquin17- Ellie Goudie-Averill24- Ellie Goudie-Averill31- Jen PolinsJune7- Michelle Marroquin <h2>FACULTY BIOS</h2>Hawley Street Ballet has been long in the making-- Jen Polins, and Ellie Goudie-Averill, Michelle Marroquin and Russell Janzen have each had life long journeys as professional ballet dancers and have been training since they were very young. Their love for the form has kept them all engaged in the art of ballet, and their love for teaching movement and patterns to others has brought them together in Northampton at 33 Hawley Street in 2021. These three incredible teachers are joining forces and offer these holistic, healing approaches to classical and contemporary ballet to YOU!Students will be invited into contemporary approaches to ballet techniques that include kindness, rigor, coordination, curiosity, and specificity. Together, we will deepen physical exploration and expand knowledge of movement vocabulary. In these classes, dancers will learn and increase familiarity with ballet terminology, and apply anatomical information for maximized freedom within form, function, and joy.We also are welcoming 3 new teachers to the Hawley St Ballet Roster!Russell Janzen is a former principal dancer with New York City Ballet. He first joined the company as an apprentice in 2007 and danced with the company for sixteen years before retiring in September 2023. During his time with the company he performed featured roles in upwards of 60 ballets by George Balanchine, Justin Peck, Jerome Robbins, Pam Tanowitz, Christopher Wheeldon, and others. Russell originated roles in seventeen world premier works including Tanowitz’s Solo for Russell: Sites 1-5 and Law of Mosaics, Peck’s Rodeo: Four Dance Episodes, Everywhere We Go, and Bright, and Troy Schumacher’s Common Ground. In addition to performing, Russell worked closely with NYCB’s Education Department, leading workshops for children, teens, adult beginners, dancers with disabilities, and dance teachers. He continues to teach and is pursuing his MSW at the Smith College School for Social Work.Originally from the Midwest, Ellie Goudie-Averill is a dance artist and educator who works with dancers of all ages on technique and performance. Since graduating with her MFA in Dance Performance from the University of Iowa, she has served as a professor at Temple University, Bucknell University, the University of Kansas and Franklin &amp; Marshall College. In the past, she has danced professionally for Susan Rethorst, Lucinda Childs, Bronwen MacArthur, and Group Motion Multimedia Dance Theater. Ellie is a regular collaborator and dancer with Tori Lawrence + Co. in dance films and site-specific works and has been with the company for nine years. She currently teaches Ballet at Connecticut College and at School for Contemporary Dance and Thought/Hawley Street Ballet in Northampton, MA. Ellie's dance reviews and other writings have appeared online at thINKingDANCE and BAC Stories.Jennifer Polins is a curator, mobilizer, movement practitioner and performance maker, bridging somatics -performance practices- and contemporary dance techniques for over 25 years. Jen is the founding director of The School for Contemporary Dance and Thought,and the director of Hatchery at SCDT. She holds an MFA in dance from Hollins University/The American Dance Festival and is a 2014 MCC choreographic fellow. Jen is also an assistant programmer for A.P.E.@Hawley. She has danced professionally in America and Europe, starting with the Joffrey Ballet, Milwaukee Ballet and then the Zurich Operahouse Ballet companies before migrating to a professional career in contemporary performance art. Jen specializes in combining dance technique and composition with rigorous improvisational practices, influenced by many mentors, most notably- Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen, Nancy Stark Smith, Steve Paxton, and Lisa Nelson. Jen is certified in Pilates, Gyrotonic, Gyrokinesis, Yoga, and Massage and studied Body Mind Centering for over 10 years.Michelle Marroquin is a life long dancer and choreographer who works with singers, composers, sculptors and video artists to bring thought provoking performance art to unusual spaces and new audiences. She teaches ballet to teenagers and somatic exercise practices to adults. She is a certified Gyrotonic/Gyrokinesis instructor, Yoga teacher and Thai Massage Bodyworker. More at www.MichelleMarroquin.comFor more programming through SCDT, please visit www.scdtnoho.com.TEACHER SCHEDULE COMING SOOMAll Contemporary Ballet Classes are at 33 Hawley St

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