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PHOTOS BY ANNA M MAYNARD (2019)
LOCULUS is a dance collective founded in 2015 in Western Massachusetts by Five College Dance alumni. Currently LOCULUS is the creative platform of Olana Flynn and Madison Palffy. LOCULUS has performed throughout the northeast often in collaboration with DIY musicians and artists in non-traditional dance performance spaces. In addition to creating, curating, and producing performance events LOCULUS publishes The Loculus Journal and directs LOCULUS Studios. LOCULUS has published six print journals, three online journals, and produced over 20 events since 2015.
Madison is a dance-maker, performer, multi-disciplinary artist, and educator. She holds an MFA in Dance and Choreography with an emphasis in Somatics and Improvisation from CU Boulder.
Olana is a multi-disciplinary artist and educator. She holds an MFA in Experimental Choreography from University of California, Riverside.
UPCOMING EVENTS at LOCULUS STUDIOS
WINTER MOVIE SERIES
Sundays at 6pm throughout January + February
1/5: Exotica, Atom Egoyan (1994)
1/12: Strictly Ballroom, Baz Luhrmann (1992)
1/19: Possession, Andrzej Żuławski (1981)
1/26: The Last Days of Disco, Whit Stillman (1998)
2/2: Newsies, Kenny Ortega (1992)
2/9: The Color of Pomegranates, Sergei Parajanov (1969)
2/16: Top Hat, Mark Sandrich (1935)
2/23: Yumen, Xiang Huang, J.P. Sniadecki, Routao Xu (2013)
NIGHT MOVES
Tuesdays 7-8pm
3/4 - 4/8, 2025
Sliding scale starting at $10 drop-in or $50 for six week session
SARA SMITH RESIDENCY
February 22 +23, 2025
Sara Smith is a transdisciplinary choreographer and librarian. Their projects consider concepts of interconnection, practices of micro-attention, and the poetics and politics of embodied and archival research. Since 2017 they have been creating the long project Inside the Breath (In Network Time) with many collaborators.
Sara has written, presented on, and taught workshops in dance, performance and creative research for over 25 years. Their artworks have been seen and heard in theaters, museums, studios, public parks, recreation center basements, and cloud-based platforms. From 2010-2017 Sara edited KINEBAGO, a forum for writing by and about New England dance makers and movement researchers.
Sara's project installation Sugar Maple Glacial Lake Station is on view at the APE Gallery in Northampton from February 12 - March 2.
February 22, 2025 | 7pm | sliding scale $15 - $30
Shift Again
w/ special guest Andrea Lawlor + members of the network time human chorus
Shift Again is a big video offering of texts, meditations, songs, dances, and historical remembrances from the era of I.N.T. (In Network Time). In the future of the world of INT humans live as fully-connected participants in Earth's multispecies ecosystem, according to principles in the writings of Gloria Anzaldúa as modeled of octopuses, made possible by bacterial communication networks.
Shift Again is an invitation to collectively envision, choose, and move toward this new orientation, recognizing that we make what we create and that what we breathe makes us. Bonus sing-along possibilities! And featuring a special guest!
February 23, 2025 | 1pm | sliding scale $10 - $30
Workshop: Micro-Attentional Techniques for Humans ("MATH" Class)
MATH class grows out of Sara's project Inside the Breath: In Network Time. This practice is focused on subtle techniques of attention and transformation that affect our dancing and our entangled relationships with humans and the more-than human world. How do we prepare for a future of better ecological listening?
Topics will include sensory perception, respiration, proprioception, ecological-social attunement, and other quiet-but-influential processes that can support, deepen, and sustain our bigger dancing times (with broad definition of "dancing"). We'll spend time with current scientific understandings of these physiological systems and structures, and with prompts for physical improvisation, directed movement exercises, and group discussion.
No previous experience necessary, just a desire to spend embodied time with invisible concepts and microscopic structures.
thingthingtalk 5
featuring video work by Sarah Lanzilotta + Slipper Grass
Subharmonics, a talk by Jake Meginsky
March 8, 2025
Details TBA
UPCOMING PERFORMANCES by LOCULUS
LOCULUS at Mayo Street Arts in Portland Maine
Friday, February 28th | 7PM
Split Bill Performance with AJ Cornell + anne-f jacques
$15 in advance, $18 at the door
Saturday, March 1 | 2PM
Movement Workshop
Sliding Scale $5 - $15
In this workshop, LOCULUS will share some of their methods of collaborative dance making. Their work together draws from contact improvisation, ensemble work, noise, authentic movement, ecology, and rhythmic puzzles. Participants will be led through a series of scores that alternate between moving, writing, and making.
Saturday, March 1 | 7PM
NIGHT MOVES with Special Guest Rosie Borden
$15 in advance, $18 at the door
LINKS
Instagram: @lo.culuscollective
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SUPPORT LOCULUS
For the past nine years we have funded our work primarily with small grants, money from performance gigs, and from our personal bank accounts. If you would like to support us, you can make a one-time donation directly by PayPal. If you would prefer to make a tax deductible donation please reach out for a link to donate through our fiscal sponsor, Holyoke Media.
PRESS
LOCULUS on MISHMASH (September 2024)
Alumnx Spotlight: LOCULUS in Five College Dance Department Annual Newsletter (August 2024)
LOCULUS Artist Talk at The ArtSalon (May 2024)
Loculus Collective at The Northampton Print and Book Fair (October 2016)
'Loculus' Brings Dynamic Performance to Florence by Max Roth (February 2016)
Northampton Print and Book Fair Vendor q+a: Loculus Collective (September 2015)