Full session: $50 

Drop in class: $10

NIGHT MOVES is:

An open level dance class: learning simple moves, getting sweaty, having fun.

(Think Jazzercise, zumba, line dancing…)

YOU CAN EXPECT:

A guided warm up 

Loose structures to generate heat / explore rhythm and flow

Some new fun low pressure choreography each week

A good playlist

Full session: $50 

Drop in class: $10

NIGHT MOVES is:

An open level dance class: learning simple moves, getting sweaty, having fun.

(Think Jazzercise, zumba, line dancing…)

YOU CAN EXPECT:

A guided warm up 

Loose structures to generate heat / explore rhythm and flow

Some new fun low pressure choreography each week

A good playlist

Full session: $50 

Drop in class: $10

NIGHT MOVES is:

An open level dance class: learning simple moves, getting sweaty, having fun.

(Think Jazzercise, zumba, line dancing…)

YOU CAN EXPECT:

A guided warm up 

Loose structures to generate heat / explore rhythm and flow

Some new fun low pressure choreography each week

A good playlist

SIDEWAYS DOOR II is the second semi-annual festival celebrating multi-disciplinary performance, process and practice organized by LOCULUS. The festival takes place at multiple venues throughout the Pioneer Valley and brings together local and regional dancers, sound and video artists, and poets for three days of performances, classes, and workshops.

For more information visit:

www.loculuscollective.com/festival

MONDAYS June 5th + 12th, 6:30PM-8:00PM
LOCATION: 33 HAWLEY ST, NORTHAMPTON IN THE DANCE STUDIO

CLASS FEES:
STUDENT/LOW INCOME: $5-$25
EMPLOYED/FINANCIALLY STABLE: $15-$50
ARTS SUPPORTER/ABLE TO GIVE: $25-$500
SIX WEEK SESSION: $60-$120

Open to all who want to train together in a supportive environment.

This Modern dance class is oriented toward movers who are new or returning to dancing. Drawing from traditional and contemporary forms, dancers will expand their kinesthetic and proprioceptive awarenesses through practice of across the floor and center combinations, improvisation, and floor work. In an inclusive, body-positive atmosphere, we get suspend, release, sweat, and find the floor.

MONDAYS NOVEMBER 14 + 28, 6:30pm-8:00pm
LOCATION: 33 Hawley St, Northampton in the WORKROOM

CLASS FEES:
Student/Low Income: $5-$25
Employed/Financially Stable: $15-$50
Arts Supporter/Able to Give: $25-$500
​SIX WEEK SESSION: $60-$120

Open to all who want to train together in a supportive environment.

This Modern dance class is oriented toward movers who are new or returning to dancing. Drawing from traditional and contemporary forms, dancers will expand their kinesthetic and proprioceptive awarenesses through practice of across the floor and center combinations, improvisation, and floor work. In an inclusive, body-positive atmosphere, we get suspend, release, sweat, and find the floor.

A weekend long festival celebrating multi-disciplinary performance, practice, and process. Organized and curated by LOCULUS Collective. Presented in collaboration with The Northampton Center For The Arts, Ten Forward Arts Venue, and Looky Here.

Saturday July 31st at Northampton Center for the Arts
10am-12pm - class with Angie Hauser + Chris Aiken
8pm - Performances by Jay Keery, Sara Smith, Lauren Horn // Subira vs. Movement, and LOCULUS

Sunday August 1st at 10 Forward + Looky Here (Greenfield)
3pm - 7pm - Artist/Bookfair outside at 1 Forward, community riso zine making at Looky Here
8pm - Performances in the bar at 10 forward by Solo Termite, Dan Cashman + Ben Hersey, Son of Earth, and LOCULUS

Monday August 2nd at 10 Forward
8pm - film screening co curated by Otis Wheeler

A note on curation:

LOCULUS Collective is the collaborative work of Madison Palffy and Olana Flynn. The most recent issue of The Loculus Journal, map of slight askew, was released in January 2020 as a fully online journal and was curated by the two of us through an open call. As two white, middle class women, sometimes working in academia, we are committed to transparency and recognizing the power structures that emerge in the curatorial work that we do. A lot of questions have come up in our discussions since January about exactly how to proceed with the journal. Questions born from wanting to maintain relationships with contributors and build on the momentum of map of slight askew, the responsibility to recognize and push against some of the power dynamics at play between curators/editors and contributors,  the desire to maintain some of our DIY punk roots where relationships are often established through word of mouth or friends of friends, and the commitment to developing community that remains in real life, embodied connection despite our move to an online platform. In this moment as the world is contending with white supremacy and unsettling power structures made extremely visible by the global pandemic, the Black Lives Matter uprising in the United States, and it's echoes and reverberations internationally our priority is addressing these overlapping issues in how we create a journal. 

The next Journal will include work curated from this open call by LOCULUS along with a diverse cohort of readers as well as work selected by previous journal contributors from their communities. 

This call is in the form of the image below. It intentionally non-linear, visual rather than literary, and is a series of  lists of intersecting thoughts and theories we believe to be essential to creating embodied art in this moment. It is meant to be interpreted infinitely; we will accept work of any medium. Our only requirement is that the body/embodiment/dance is central to the work you submit.

afterhours is a multi-platform archive created over the course of six weeks in conjunction with “Please and thank you,” a group exhibition of works in black and white. The archive begins online and will be expanded through a series of live, mostly unattended events.

View the archive: www.vsopprojects.com/afterhours

Friday August 21st @ Treiber Farms
Outdoor Film Screening of Milford Graves Full Mantis 
Email info@vsopprojects.com to RSVP 

Friday September 26th & 27th
Open House at VSOP Projects, 11am-6pm

Between August 21st and September 26th there will be an undetermined number of unscheduled, primarily unattended “live archiving” events and screenings after hours at VSOP Projects. Each of these events will have a map, created ahead of time by me (and maybe some invited guests).
Follow @vsopprojects on Instagram to follow along.

In the past week the term “social distancing” has become a part of the vernacular. In some ways our work as LOCULUS was already about social distance. Our creative partnership about creating despite distance, The Loculus Journal a project in highlighting connection through critical consideration of the body in an international, cross/multi-disciplinary online journal. Our plan for the journal was to release one curated journal each year but our current circumstances call for flexibility and adaptation.

As we are being asked to distance ourselves physically our creative communities are moving online – folks are teaching through zoom and Instagram live, lists of resources for collaborating and teaching online are being assembled, festivals of cancelled performances and virtual tours of museums are being streamed online. We have always felt that the perspectives of critically engaged artists are essential to all kinds of creative collaborations. While there is a lot that is uncertain right now that belief is not one of those uncertainties. The other thing we are certain of is that as artists we must continue to create and share our work despite physical distance and our circumstances shifting.

Notes from Quarantine is an uncurated special edition of The Loculus Journal. What are you making/writing/recording during this time of social distancing?

Guidelines:
Work must have been created during COVID-19 lockdown/quarantine/social distancing. It does not have to be about COVID-19, but it can be.
We will accept work of any medium as long as it can be hosted on the internet (writing, visual art, video, sound, something we haven’t imagined yet). As always, we are particularly interested in ‘dance’ and work that deals with the body and embodiment, but are entirely open to what dance, body, and embodiment mean to each of you.
We will publish Notes from Quarantine on April 1st but submissions will continue to be added as long as it feels necessary.

SUBMIT HERE

Contact us at loculuscollective@gmail.com with questions.

these roots that grow between: ongoing performance research with Kendall Loyer as part of The Appalachian Studies Conference

WORKING GROUP IN RESIDENCE AS PART OF BODIES IN MOTION 2020
WITH EMMA ROSE BROWN, LAUREN HORN, MADISON PALFFY/LOCULUS, + TYLER RAI
Four emerging choreographers with geographical ties to Western Massachusetts gather together for the week in a loosely facilitated cohort. Artists have focused time to work alongside opportunities to be in exchange with one another and to be in-process without the pressure of public performance.