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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, Erik Brown
Performances:
September 20, 2024 - Holyoke Media in Holyoke MA as part of SIDEWAYS DOOR 3. with Nat Baldwin, Arien Wilkerson/GLORYHOLE, and Bobby LaBitch & Kieran Lally.
September 19, 2024 - PULP Gallery in Holyoke MA as part of SIDEWAYS DOOR 3. with Greg Kelley & Yoona Kim, Julia Handschuh & Anna Hendricks, Jimena Bermejo & Jeff Huckleberry, and Ron Schneiderman.
September 7, 2024 - Unnameable Books in Turners Falls MA as part of Audible Bite
September 5, 2024 on MISHMASH-WBCR
August 11, 2024 - The Sunspot in Northampton MA (collaboration with Sunburned Hand of the Man). with Kryssi & Wednesday, Willie Lane, and Obscuress
August 8, 2024 - The Guilded Brick in Holyoke MA. with Jayson Keery and Aaron Rosenblum
July 26, 2024 - DanceBARN Festival in Battle Lake, MN. with Sarah Dahnke and Cara Hagan
July 19, 2024 - House/Barn Show in Ashfield MA. with Bromp Treb and Connect Four
July 14, 2024 - The Clark Art Institute in Williamstown MA. with Ximena Bedoya
May 26, 2024 - Cold Spring Hollow in Belchertown MA. with SickFit, Useless Little, Tempestade, and Diagram A/Noise Nomads Duo
April 12, 2024 - CTSB in Lee MA collaboration with Sunburned Hand of the Man. with Gluebag.
January 19, 2024 - The Workroom at 33 Hawley St. in Northampton MA. with Julia Hanschuh & Anna Hendricks, Anne Woodhull, Jules Skloot, and Roy Faudree.
December 31, 2023 - First Night in Northampton MA
December 16, 2023 - Looky Here Gala in Greenfield MA. with Shea Mowat and Flaming Dragons of Middle Earth
December 6, 2023 - Hutghi's in Westfield MA. with Animal Piss It's Everywhere, Sunburned Hand of the Man, and Ryan Davis & the Roadhouse Band
December 1, 2023 - LOCULUS Studios in Holyoke MA. with Hana Van Der Kolk
September 7, 2023 - FKA Comics in Northampton MA. with Sediment Club and Container
August 12, 2023 - Audible Bite 4 in Millers Falls MA. with Aisha Burns
June 24, 2023 - Anchor House of Artists Northampton, MA with Jen Gelineau, Nat Baldwin, and Jake Meginsky
March 25, 2023 - 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 - Hampshire College, Amherst MA with Milarepa Dorji, Noa Jacques/Alina Jacobs, and Camilo Angeles/Henry Fraser/Jason Nazary
October 9, 2022 - Cold Spring Hollow, Belchertown MA
August 28, 2022 - 10.Forward, Greenfield MA with Hectorine and Omega Mansions
July 23, 2022 - DanceBARN, Battle Lake MN
July 30, 2022 - 10.Forward, Greenfield MA with Bed Bits and Petite Garcon
May 7, 2022 - 33 Hawley, Northampton MA as a part of HUT with PussyVision and Francis Lo
August 1, 2021 - 10.Forward, Greenfield MA with Solo Termite and Son of Earth
July 31, 2021 - 33 Hawley, Northampton MA with Subira vs Movement//Lauren Horn, Sara Smith, and Jayson Keery
July 24, 2021 - 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 - The Living Gallery, Brooklyn NY with Josie Bettman, moonmoon, Bromp Treb, and Sunk Heaven
January 30th, 2020 - 10.Forward, Greenfield MA with Lena Abraham, and Nemesister for The Star Show
November 23rd, 2019 - 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 - Cold Spring Hollow, Belchertown MA with Twin Aperture, Fake Object, Dialtone/Scald Hymn duo, Cryovacs, and Jacob Winans
July 14th, 2019 - 10.Forward, Greenfield MA with Underwear and Close Body Talent
August 16th, 2018 - The Glove, Brooklyn NY at a clowning Function with Poncili Creacion
August 14th, 2018 - Mascher Space Coop, Philadelphia PA with Anna Wotring and Kate Seethaler
August 10th, 2018 - The Root Cellar, Greenfield MA with Dan Cashman, PussyVision, and Curtain Lump
August 8th, 2018 - 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)