Living History Series:
Celebrating the Work of
Janet Adler
Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen
Nancy Stark Smith
and the 45 Year Heritage of Contact Quarterly
Sponsored by
Date:​​
​Time:
​Saturday, September 21, 2019
1:30 - 3:30 pm
​​Location:

​Tickets:
Theatre 14, Mendenhall Center for the Performing Arts, 122 Green Street, Smith College.

​​Pre-registration recommended.  Somatics Festival 2019 schedule and tickets ($15/$12 students) at https://www.scdtnoho.com/.
Join us for a conversation of “Why Here, Why Then?” with renowned body movement teachers and performers Janet Adler, Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen, and Nancy Stark Smith as they explain the role that Northampton played on shaping and launching their careers.  Introduction by Laurie Sanders and Elizabeth Sharpe, Co-Directors of Historic Northampton. Welcome by Susan Waltner and poem by Anne Love Woodhull.  Sponsored by Smith College as part of Somatics Festival 2019.
 
This event is a joint production of A.P.E., Smith College Department of Dance, with support from the Northampton Arts Council.
Steve Paxton and Nancy Stark Smith in Raft, with Freelance Dance at Thornes Market in Northampton, 1982 (Lisa Nelson, Danny Lepkoff and Christina Svane in background.) Photo by Stephen Petegorsky.
Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen
Nancy Stark Smith
and group in Helsinki, Finland
Janet Adler
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