33 HAWLEY EVENTS
HUT performance X3
Movement | Words | SoundMovement: Cameron Childs
Words: Mark Wunderlich
Sound: Rebecca Schrader
Sunday, April 11 • 8pm
THE WORKROOM
INFO + TICKETS
HUT is an exciting and innovative interdisciplinary performance series that has been running for 14 seasons. It is co-curated by movement artist Jennifer Polins, sound artist Jake Meginsky, and writer Catherine Corbett Bresner. The series showcases the work of three artists in each performance, featuring MOVEMENT, WORDS, and MUSIC from local and international artists who share a pursuit of experimental improvisation and an intention to push their forms forward. HUT draws diverse audiences who love music, writing and dance, offering varied communities a chance to sit together and experience performance styles they might not have appreciated before. By juxtaposing different artistic genres and emphasizing experimentation, HUT creates a unique space for building a new sense of public engagement and appreciation for the arts.
image by Bill Nace, 2024
MORE EVENTS
SCDT's HATCHERY Dance Company in
ASTEROID B-612
A LOVE STORY
Inspired by The Little Prince
Friday, June 12 at 7:30 PM
Saturday, June 13 at 2 PM & 7:30 PM
THE WORKROOM
Directed by Jen Polins, Katherine Kain & Ashirah Devi Dalomba
Original work by The Hatchery Dance Company & Hatchery Pit Band Hatchery Choreographers: Irina Andrews, Lila Gilman-Hollabaugh, Serena Gross, Andrew Jones-Monaghan, Agnes MacLean, Frances Slabich, Ida Pitcher, Jamie Rose, Inna Selman
Special Guests: Sakina Ibrahim, Gabriella Carmichael, Erik Elizondo
2026 PLAY BY PLAY FESTIVAL
The Northampton Playwrights Lab celebrates its 20th Anniversary, April 23rd to 26th, with the 2026 Play by Play Festival, featuring readings of new works by member playwrights.
April 23 - 26
THE WORKROOM
See each event for date & time
TICKETS + INFO
HOLDING STEADY
NEW SOLOS + DUETS
performances by CHELSEA PERRY, MELINA TSECKARES, MARY BETH BROOKER, FYNN KUGEL, REBECCA SCHRADER, and WENDY WOODSON
April 17 at 6pm
April 18 at 4pmTHE WORKROOM
EMAIL FOR RESERVATIONS
SUGGESTED DONATION • $15
IRIS
written by OLIVIA CLEMENT FINCHpart of PIC PIPS
Sunday, April 12 • 7:30pm
THE WORKROOM
FREE TO ATTEND
RSVP
Doors open at 7:15; please enter through the lower courtyard door
HUT performance X3
Movement | Words | SoundMovement: Cameron Childs
Words: Mark Wunderlich
Sound: Rebecca Schrader
Sunday, April 11 • 8pm
THE WORKROOM
INFO + TICKETS
HUT is an exciting and innovative interdisciplinary performance series that has been running for 14 seasons. It is co-curated by movement artist Jennifer Polins, sound artist Jake Meginsky, and writer Catherine Corbett Bresner. The series showcases the work of three artists in each performance, featuring MOVEMENT, WORDS, and MUSIC from local and international artists who share a pursuit of experimental improvisation and an intention to push their forms forward. HUT draws diverse audiences who love music, writing and dance, offering varied communities a chance to sit together and experience performance styles they might not have appreciated before. By juxtaposing different artistic genres and emphasizing experimentation, HUT creates a unique space for building a new sense of public engagement and appreciation for the arts.
image by Bill Nace 2024
GET YOUR ACT TOGETHER
A contemporary circus production exploring deconstruction, identity, and collective reconstruction. Follow the story of a show director who assembles a circus performance live from a community bulletin board, discovering acts that interrogate the social structures and personal narratives we inherit.
April 3 + 4, 6pm
THE WORKROOM
TICKETS + INFO
ELIZABETH IV + THERE IS MORE THAN ONE BED
plus a weekend of classesMarch 20-22
THE WORKROOM
Friday, March 20, 2026
8PM PERFORMANCE - Elizabeth IV (Choreography by Heidi Henderson) and There's More Than One Bed (Choreography by Tristan Koepke and Benny Olk)
Saturday, March 21, 2026
10AM-12PM CLASS - Contact Improvisation with Shura Baryshnikov and Sarah Konner
1-3PM CLASS - Heated Rivalry but make it Contemporary Dance with Tristan Koepke and Big Boy Dance
8PM PERFORMANCE - Elizabeth IV (Choreography by Heidi Henderson) and There's More Than One Bed (Choreography by Tristan Koepke and Benny Olk)
Sunday, March 22, 2026
9AM-10:45PM CLASS - Countertechnique with Shura Baryshnikov
WIP
Works In Progressby Doron Perk, Sarah Ana Malone, Colby Connelly, Madison McGain, Celine Bassman, Mira Göksel
Sunday, March 15 • 4pm
THE WORKROOM
TICKETS
About WIP:
The School for Contemporary Dance and Thought presents WIP (works-in-progress), a performance series that showcases developing movement-based works. WIP values sharing research and experimentation, rather than presenting finished works, and welcomes applications from emerging and established artists. The curatorial team choosing WIP choreographers is composed of fellow dance artists that have presented at WIP and SCDT board members. We are looking to create performances showcasing a diverse range of established and emerging artists, as well as those local to the Pioneer Valley and beyond. The curatorial team aims to create a program comprised of artists both local and national.
DANCE SAMPLER
AS PART OF ARTS NIGHT OUT @ 33 HAWLEY
Friday, March 13 • 5-6:30pm
THE WORKROOM
part of Rebecca Herskovitz’s exhibition
...we were always beautiful...
FRIDAY, MARCH 6
Preview/Pre-Sale 6:00 - 7:00pm
Artist Talk 6:30pm
The Split Level Gallery
FREE and open to the public (with 10% Pre-Sale discount on all artwork)
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 11
Silent Disco Studio Hour 6 - 7pm
Eli’s Room @ 33 Hawley
Adults: $10; Ages 10-17*: $1
Space is limited. Reservations required.
Email for more information: whereveryouarestudios@gmail.com
*Special pricing provided thanks to the generous support of the Northampton Arts Council and the Mass Cultural Council. Participants aged 13 and under must attend with an adult.
PLAY INCUBATION COLLECTIVE presents
HARRY TRUMAN + THE VOLCANO
written by SEAN BARRYpart of PIC PIPS
Sunday, March 1 • 7:30pm
THE WORKROOM
FREE
SHIR LIVNE presents
MOM*
A one-woman circus show about motherhoodWhat makes a “good mom”? MOM* shines a light on the inner thoughts that we have as potential mothers, stepmothers, bio-moms, and daughters. What did we expect things to feel like, and how do they actually feel? Shir Livne shares her truths in this tour de force solo performance, presenting her absurdist take on motherhood through circus, storytelling, and pages upon pages of fiery teenage journals
Friday, February 13 • 6pm
Saturday, February 14 • 8pmTHE WORKROOM
TICKETS HERE
SHIR LIVNE is a movement artist who creates pieces that combine theater, dance, and circus. She exalts in walking the line between comedy and tragedy, and creating absurd imagery, using clown, aerial rope, and tightwire.
She premiered her 75 minute one-woman circus show about motherhood, MOM*, in Somerville, MA in September 2024. It has toured in Philadelphia, PA (Philly Fringe 2024), Camden, NJ (Philadelphia Contemporary Circus Festival 2025), Boston, MA (‘MOM* and the Making It Up Art Exhibition’), NYC (3AM Theatre), Connecticut, and Chicago. Her work in this show will be featured in Rivka Eckert’s upcoming book about mother/artist performance practices and inclusivity.
Before becoming a circus performer, Shir worked as a robotics engineer for companies such as Amazon Robotics and Berkshire Grey. She brings her technical acumen and ingenuity to circus, bringing the ideas in her head to life, and often asking the question “what if?”. She also performs as a hospital clown (‘Dr. Bird Brain’) as part of the Laughter League.
MORE INFO HERE
THE RED GUITAR
Film screening + FUNDRAISER for Serious PlayA virtuoso guitarist, a red Stratocaster, a life in sound.
Now an exquisite film of the live performance.
Wednesday, February 11 • 8pm (doors at 7:30)THE WORKROOM
With his apple red Fender Stratocaster in hand and his extraordinary talent, John Sheldon caught the attention of audiences and reviewers alike at the Edinburgh Fringe. He creates a whole world of sound with unbelievable technical skill, a quick inventive musical mind, and some impressive live looping as hands and feet assemble an entire sound score that can stir the musical heart of the most hardened soul. John's ironclad belief in the power of sound pervades the whole performance, the conviction that music is not just entertainment, but a soul saving enterprise, worthy of the lifelong commitment he has made to it. His technical skill never overwhelms the story- the poignant, the humorous, the moments of connection, of illumination. The journey continues, setting a course to the center of who we truly are: vibration.
FOR MORE INFO, EMAIL HERE
EUGENE FRIESEN + COURT DORSEY present
POEMS WITH WINGS
Poetry and CelloFour-time Grammy Award winning cellist Eugene Friesen and actor/writer Court Dorsey collaborate to create “Poems with Wings,” an improvised performance of poems from Dorsey’s Tiger Stripes poetry collection and works by other poets.
Eugene’s passion for improvised music has been featured in concerts all over the world with Paul Simon, the Paul Winter Consort and with Trio Globo. Dorsey has 50 years’ experience as an actor, poet and playwright. He released his mystical poetry collection in 2024.
Sunday, February 1 at 2pm
THE WORKROOM