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We conceive of our creative work as existing within cycles. Each cycle is centered around certain materials and processes that are speaking to us individually and together. We revisit these materials in order to examine them from different angles, to see what else might be illuminated.
Many performances are site specific and rooted in our engagement in DIY artist communities. Our work is often performed at events in bars, yards, and houses as well as in traditional concert dance spaces. These events, many of which we curate ourselves, bring together visual artists, musicians, performers, and artists from a wide variety of media to create community events that spark cross-disciplinary dialogue. This curatorial practice has been central to the collective since our founding in 2015. We are interested in how a friendship can also feed creative research and how to sustainably make and present work outside of a major city and within DIY artist communities.
Current Cycle V
2023 -
proximity, form // frill
Photos by Otis Wheeler, Josie Bettman, Nat Baldwin, Matt Krefting, Haley Morgan, Sarah De Araujo
Performances:
April 12, 2024 at CTSB in Lee MA with Sunburned Hand of the Man
January 19, 2024 at The Workroom at 33 Hawley St. in Northampton MA
December 31, 2023 at First Night in Northampton MA
December 16, 2023 at the Looky Here Gala in Greenfield MA
December 6, 2023 at Hutghi's in Westfield MA
December 1, 2023 at LOCULUS Studios in Holyoke MA
September 7, 2023 at FKA Comics in Northampton MA
August 12, 2023 at Audible Bite 4 in Millers Falls MA
June 24, 2023 at Anchor House of Artists Northampton, MA with Jen Gelineau, Nat Baldwin, and Jake Meginsky
March 25, 2023 at LOCULUS Studios, Holyoke MA with Molly McBride, Jen Gelineau, and Caleb Chase
Cycle IV
2021 - 2022
Site specific/outdoors, accumulation, counterbalance, wood & metal, shrouding (fabric, tinfoil, plastic), imprint, voice
Photos by Marc Candilore, Matt Krefting, Matt Flynn, Molly McBride, Rebecca Tanner
Performances:
November 4, 2022 at Hampshire College, Amherst MA with Milarepa Dorji, Noa Jacques/Alina Jacobs, and Camilo Angeles/Henry Fraser/Jason Nazary
October 9, 2022 at Cold Spring Hollow, Belchertown MA
August 28, 2022 at 10.Forward, Greenfield MA with Hectorine and Omega Mansions
July 23, 2022 at DanceBARN, Battle Lake MN
July 30, 2022 at 10.Forward, Greenfield MA with Bed Bits and Petite Garcon
May 7, 2022 at 33 Hawley, Northampton MA as a part of HUT with PussyVision and Francis Lo
August 1, 2021 at 10.Forward, Greenfield MA with Solo Termite and Son of Earth
July 31, 2021 at 33 Hawley, Northampton MA with Subira vs Movement//Lauren Horn, Sara Smith, and Jayson Keery
July 24, 2021 at Treiber Farms, Peconic NY with Leah Fournier + Amelia Heintzelman
Cycle III
2020
long distance
COVID interruption
walking, playlists, scores
24 songs • 12 from each of us
odd # tracks and vids contributed and loosely directed by Madison and made by Olana • even # tracks and vids contributed and loosely directed by Olana and made by Madison
edited using every cheese iMovie transition by Olana
cover art by Madison
Cycle II
2019 - 2020
long distance
lightbulbs, (ripping off) set choreography, loops, line dances, realtree, resonance, metallic surfaces
Photo by David Russell (2019)
Photo by Erica Turett (2020)
Performances:
February 1, 2020 at The Living Gallery, Brooklyn NY with Josie Bettman, moonmoon, Bromp Treb, and Sunk Heaven
January 30th, 2020 at 10.Forward, Greenfield MA with Lena Abraham, and Nemesister for The Star Show
November 23rd, 2019 at 10.Forward, Greenfield MA with Glynnis Eldridge, Ten Gallon Hat, and Millers
Cycle I
2017 - 2019
long distance
wigs, sequins, rocks, country music, noise
Photo by Anna Maynard (2019)
Photo by Erik Brown (2019)
Photo by Walter Wlodarczyk (2018)
Performances:
August 7th, 2019 at Cold Spring Hollow, Belchertown MA with Twin Aperture, Fake Object, Dialtone/Scald Hymn duo, Cryovacs, and Jacob Winans
July 14th, 2019 at 10.Forward, Greenfield MA with Underwear and Close Body Talent
August 16th, 2018 at The Glove, Brooklyn NY at a clowning Function with Poncili Creacion
August 14th, 2018 at Mascher Space Coop, Philadelphia PA with Anna Wotring and Kate Seethaler
August 10th, 2018 at The Root Cellar, Greenfield MA with Dan Cashman, PussyVision, and Curtain Lump
August 8th, 2018 at The Apohadion Theater, Portland ME with Lauren Toswill + John Fireman and TIME
Other Performances:
DIVE, Flywheel (2019)
Not Much Out There But Mallards, SCDT (2016)
Locstock, Hadley MA (2016)
House of One, Florence Civic Center (2016)
Hampshire College Family and Friends Weekend Dance Performance (2015)
no/body wins, Eastworks (2015)
Where the knife hits the wall, Hadley American Legion (2015)