Fall 2025 Intermediate/Advance Contemporary Practice. Sundays 2:00-3:30pm

SCDT Presents:

Intermediate/Advanced Adult Contemporary Practice DROP IN w/ rotating faculty

Sundays, September 7-December 21 2025

2:00-3:30PM

33 Hawley St, in Carole's Dance Studio

CLASS FEES:

• Student/Low Income: $15-$25
• Employed/Financially Stable: $25-$50

CLASS SCHEDULE

SEPTEMBER

7-Chloe London

14- Chloe London

21- Maya LaLiberté

28-Maya LaLiberté

OCTOBER

5- Madison Palffy

12- Madison Palffy

19- Gabby Carmichael

26- Gabby Carmichael

NOVEMBER

2-Francesca Baron

9- 2-Francesca Baron

16- Francesca Baron

23-Maya LaLiberté

30-NO CLASS

DECEMBER

7- Chloe London

14- Madison Palffy

21- Gabby Carmichael

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TEACHING ARTIST BIOS

Francesca Baron

Recognizing that the body can inhabit many states of being Francesca Baron, mfa is attracted to investigating the spectrum of kinetic movement. Intellectually she values complexity and connection; physically she values big sweeping movement, finding rigor to yield both an empowering and freeing sensation. She is enchanted about dance as a sustainable physical practice and delights to be in conversation with/in movement + dance-making alongside students, collaborators and communities. In the past decade she has produced original work that has been presented at academic institutions, festivals, self-produced shows, film festivals, art galleries, weddings and on dance companies, studios and competition stages across the Midwest and New England. She has lectured and set work at: Keene State College, Smith College, Amherst College, Kenyon College, Lindenwood University. Her current creative kindling is composited by attentional states, subtlety, soft-vigor, kinetics and somatics.

Gabby Carmichael

Gabby Carmichael is a choreographer and educator based between Western Massachusetts and Brooklyn, NY. She approaches dance as a site for transformation and collaboration, with her research being driven by a curiosity with how the body stores, reshapes, and recalls information across time. Gabby holds an MFA in Choreography and Performance from Smith College and a BA in Anthropology and Dance from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She is an ongoing collaborator with Barbie Diewald, and additionally has performed with Annie Health and Niki Farahani. Her work has been presented at Smith College, Gibney Dance, New Dance Alliance, Movement Research at the Judson Church, BAAD Bronx, Center for Performance Research, Triskelion Arts, and the School of Contemporary Dance & Thought, and she has been in residence at The Field Center, The Floor on Atlantic, MOTive Brooklyn, Leimay, and Brooklyn Arts Exchange.

Maya LaLiberté

Maya LaLiberté is a movement artist and educator currently based in Western Massachusetts. Through choreography, performance, and teaching she explores the visceral connections shared between humans during moments of intimacy, risk, presence, and play. Maya graduated from Smith College in 2018 with a BA in Dance, and became a certified teacher of Countertechnique in 2022. Throughout 2024 and 2025 she has been dancing for choreographer Faye Driscoll, touring internationally in her work Weathering. She also collaborated and performed in Driscoll’s newest site specific work, Oceanic Feeling, commissioned by Rockaway Beach Sessions for its 10th anniversary edition. In April 2024, LaLiberté choreographed, directed and produced Spring Ephemerals, an evening length suite of new dances in collaboration with local dancers and musicians. Maya is a Guest Instructor at Wesleyan University in (Fall ‘23 and Fall ‘25) and teaches Countertechnique classes and workshops throughout the United States.

Chloe London

Chloe London is a choreographer, performer, and teacher. She received her MFA in Performance & Choreography from Smith College in 2023 and has since taught at UMass Amherst, Mount Holyoke College, and is currently on faculty at Smith College. Her choreography has been presented by Movement Research at the Judson Church, Dixon Place, Triskelion Arts, School of Contemporary Dance and Thought, and Battery Park Dance Festival. She was a 2022 A.P.E Gallery ARC Artist in Residence, a 2023 Bearnstow Artist in Residence, and a 2025 Art Omi Dance Artist in Residence. She has worked collaboratively with Angie Hauser and has danced for Vanessa Anspaugh, Alex Davis, Barbie Diewald, Maddy Sher, Tammy Sugden-Carrasco, and Gabrielle Revlock, among others. Chloe danced for Bebe Miller Company in Vespers, Reimagined at Danspace Project in March 2025. She was a Trisk Presents 2025 commissioned artist and premiered Unstable Sky at Triskelion Arts in Brooklyn, NY in April 2025.

Ellie Goudie-Averill

Originally from the Midwest, Ellie Goudie-Averill is a dance artist and educator who works with dancers of all ages on technique and performance. She currently teaches ballet and contemporary at Smith, Mount Holyoke, and Amherst Colleges and at School for Contemporary Dance and Thought in Northampton, MA. Since graduating with her MFA in Dance Performance from the University of Iowa, she has also served as a professor at Temple University, Bucknell University, the University of Kansas, Franklin & Marshall College, Keene State College, and Connecticut College. In the past, she has danced professionally for Susan Rethorst, Lucinda Childs, Bronwen MacArthur, Group Motion, and Sara Shelton Mann. Ellie is currently working on projects with Beau Hancock and Barbie Diewald and is a regular collaborator and dancer with Tori Lawrence + Co. in dance films and site-specific works.

Madison Palffy

Madison Palffy is a performing artist, dance-maker, and movement educator based in western Massachusetts. She holds an MFA in Dance and Choreography with an emphasis in Somatics and Improvisation from University of Colorado, Boulder. Her work is driven by a sense of experimentation and artistic cross-pollination and has taken the form of films, installations, and evening length performances. Her work has been shown at Studio 303 (Montreal), The Iron Factory (Philadelphia), Ponderosa (Germany), The School for Contemporary Dance and Thought (Northampton, MA), GreenSpace (NYC), AS220 (Providence, RI), The Dairy Arts Center (Boulder, CO), and throughout New England. Madison is a founding member and co-director of LOCULUS, a dance and performance collective that creates performances in non-traditional spaces, produces an experimental dance journal, and directs The Loculus Studio in Holyoke, MA. As an educator, Madison has been on faculty at Keene State College, Pioneer Valley Performing Arts Charter School, Berkshire Pulse, SCDT, Northampton Center for the Arts, Block 1750, Ape Co Movement School, and The Spark Performing Arts Center. She was a graduate teaching instructor at University of Colorado Boulder and has been a guest teaching artist at Amherst College, Smith College, Hampshire College, Moving Target Portland, Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, Earthdance Workshop & Retreat Center, the Williston Northampton School and as an in-school teaching artist in Springfield, Holyoke, and Pittsfield public schools. She currently teaches dance and pilates at The School for Contemporary Dance & Thought, Berkshire Pulse, Loculus Studios, and Smith College.

Image from Lauren Horn/ Subira Vs. Movement SCDT residency. Photo by Peter Raper. Dancer: Taylor Zappone

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