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CLASS FEES:

• Arts Supporter/Able to Give: $25+
• Employed/Financially Stable: $20
• Student/Low Income: $15

Questions? Call or email : +1 (413) 695 1799 // infoscdt@gmail.com

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SCHEDULE

SEPTEMBER

6-Michelle Marroquin

13-Jen Polins

20-Jen Polins

27-Michelle Marroquin

OCTOBER

4- Kate Martel

11-Jen Polins

18- Kate Martel

25-Michelle Marroquin

NOVEMBER

1-Kate Martel

8-Jen Polins

15-Kate Martel

22-Michelle Marroquin

29-NO CLASS

DECEMBER

6-Michelle Marroquin

13- Ellie Goudie-Averill

20- Ellie Goudie-Averill

FACULTY BIOS

Hawley Street Ballet has been long in the making-- Jen Polins, Ellie Goudie-Averill, Michelle Marroquin and Kate Martel 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.

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 & 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.com

Kate Martel is a dance artist, educator, and Alexander Technique teacher based in Western Massachusetts. She enjoys teaching people of all ages, and currently works as the Youth Program Coordinator and Hatchery Co-Director at School for Contemporary Dance and Thought (MA). Kate was a collaborating artist with Laura Peterson Choreography for ten years, and has also performed in work by Barbie Diewald, Nora Stephens, Luis Lara Malvacias, Rebecca Brooks, Juliette Mapp, and others. Her choreography has been presented by Loculus, the Williston Northampton School, SCDT (WIP), Women in Motion, Movement Research at Judson Church, Center for Performance Research and Purdue University. She was Program Coordinator of Young Artists at Dance Italia 2022-2023. She has been on faculty at Mason Gross School of the Arts/Rutgers University, Adelphi University and Westfield State University. Kate received a BA from Goucher College in Dance and Education (2002) and an MFA in Performing Arts from University of Wisconsin Milwaukee (2014), and is an AmSAT Board Certified Alexander Technique Teacher (Balance Arts Center, 2017). She teaches the Alexander Technique privately in both group and private settings. She is currently adjunct faculty at Amherst and Smith Colleges. www.katemartel.com

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