CLASSES | PERFORMANCES | EVENTS • SPRING 2017

CENTER FOR THE ARTS AND EDUCATION 25 East Main Street, Cambridge NY 12816 • 518.677.2495 • Offi ces open Tues.- Fri.10am - 5pm www.hubbardhall.org 2017 SEASON - HUBBARD HALL PASS SEASON SPONSORSHIPS The Hubbard Hall Pass Returns Our subscriptions and Hall your support, you gain one ticket Reservations are required for each date of for the 2016-2017 Season! Passes have always functioned to each designated event. performance – pass holders must still call Season Sponsorships as a “season sponsorship” at the Hubbard Hall Box O ce in advance at The Hubbard Hall Pass Returns the Hall, providing us much- Flex Pass - $75 – Four seats for 518-677-2495, ext. 320 to reserve their seats. Titles and Dates Subject to Change for the 2016-2017 Season! Call needed resources in advance any theater production for the now or go online to buy your of producing the kind of opera, price of three, to be used as you *Hubbard Hall Passes do NOT include Children’s Theater, Special Presentations, Music from Salem events or Pass! theater, dance, music, and fi lm see fi t. Special Event Fundraisers (Blues & Brews, Rites of Spring Box Offi ce: 518-677-2495, ext. series you’ve come to love here Gala, Whispering Bones, etc.). Pass Holders must reserve 320 or hubbardhall.org. online or call 518-677-2495, ext. 320, in advance to at Hubbard Hall. In honor of reserve your ticket for each show. ART HAPPENS HERE • 2017 PERFORMANCE HIGHLIGHTS The Book Club Play MUSIC* DANCE by Karen Zacarias SPECIAL EVENTS Valentine’s Cabaret Annual St. Patrick’s Day Directed by Kirk Jackson March 4-19, 2017 Film Forums (New this year!) Hosted by Bob Warren Irish Ceili Fridays & Saturdays 7:30 pm Hosted by David DeVries February 11, 7pm March 15, 7:00-8:30 pm Saturdays & Sundays 2 pm February 18, and June 17, 7pm $20 General Admission/ CCS Auditorium $25 Adults/$10 Students Ages 6-22 Check back soon for a list of this year’s fi lm titles! $10 Students Enjoy a traditional St. Patrick’s Day Community Children 5 and under FREE FREE – Suggested Donation of $10 Children 5 and under FREE Celebration featuring live Celtic music from the Opening Night Dinner* and Take in a fl ick from forgotten days gone by with Performance: Sat. March 4, 6pm Bring your Funny Hubbard Hall Tune Jam Band, Irish Ceili dance friends in our Freight Depot. Valentine to Hubbard lessons (like a square dance), dance performances, Hall on February 11 to and a great Bake Sale to benefi t the Hubbard Hall Th is hit comedy by nationally-award winning enjoy the toe-tapping Irish Dance Costume Fund. Free admission! playwright Karen Zacarias focuses on the fun, tunes you know and the frivolity, and deeply serious politics found in new songs you’ll fall in our beloved Book Clubs. When a new member love with. Bob Warren Year-end Dance Showcase is hastily invited into this Club, will this group of has once again organized a beautifully eclectic June 10, 2017 friends ever be the same? Uproariously hilarious, 4pm and 7pm this contemporary comedy lets us celebrate our group of regional musicians to shelter your lover’s Hoosick Falls Central School fl ame from February’s chill. From classic crooner Tickets: $10 General Admission/$5 Student 6-22 love for reading while allowing us to laugh at ballads to sultry strains that conjure that Old $2 Ages 4-6/Children 3 and under FREE ourselves – and our loved ones. Accompanied Black Magic, we’ll have something for everyone’s Join us to see what our dance students have by opportunities for each audience to share their Blues and Brews Heart and Soul! prepared over the course of the year at Hubbard favorite book titles, this play is a celebration of why we love to love – and talk about – our books. February 25, 7pm Hall! Featuring performances by Hip Hop & Jazz, $20 admission includes chili, cornbread, jambalaya, Ballet, Tap, Irish Step, Modern Jazz, Bollywood, Produced in partnership with Battenkill Books. desserts and soft drinks. Cash bar for beer and wine. and a special video presentation from the National $10 Admission for Kids 12 and under Dance Week Foundation Dance Mob, this will be The Glass A Smokin’ Hot Fundraiser for Hubbard Hall a wonderful day of expression through dance. Menagerie featuring the Road Side Blues Band. Admission by Tennessee includes chili, cornbread, jambalaya, desserts, and soft drinks. Cash bar for beer and wine with Williams ID. All ages welcome. Dance the winter blues THEATER April 22-May 7, 2017 away! Special Fundraiser to Benefi t Student Music From Salem Fridays & Saturdays 7:30 pm Scholarships. All Evening Shows in the 2016-2017 Season Saturdays & Sundays 2 pm at Hubbard Hall $25 Adults Another season of world-class performances will start at 7:30 p.m.! All full productions run $10 Students Ages 6-22 Spring Perennial Sale Fridays-Saturdays at 7:30 p.m. and Saturdays- by artists from around the globe! Children 5 and under FREE April 29 from 7-11am Sunday April 9 at 4pm Sundays at 2 p.m. Opening Night Dinner* and Performance: Sat., April 22, 6pm If you’d like to support Hubbard Hall and give/ Lila Brown: Viola 3rd get some great perennials for your garden, Judith Gordon: Piano Annual Starring Cambridge’s own Christine Decker, come to our annual perennials sale. People who this American classic tells the tale of Tom, Hubbard Hall Mainstage. bring freshly dug perennials to donate may his sister Laura, mother Amanda, and the $25 Suggested Ticket - Pay What You Will of new work begin “shopping” any time aft er 7 am, otherwise Gentleman Caller. A meditation on how the past Summer dates to be announced soon. Hot New Works Right in the Heart of Winter! the shopping begins at 9 am. Th ere will be Check out musicfromsalem.org can haunt our present, this American classic knowledgeable people on hand to help you January 21-29, 2017 made playwright Tennessee Williams famous for more information. make good choices for your particular site and and is perhaps his most personal work - giving garden needs. Th ese are the best bargains of the Third Annual Winter Carnival us a window into his love for his real life sister season AND you help Hubbard Hall keep art and of New Work! Rose. Filled with laughter, love, and longing, community happening. Special Fundraiser to Th e Glass Menagerie is a great play about family, Benefi t Student Scholarships. Jan 21-29, 2017 Hot New Works Right in the Heart of Winter! forgiveness, and our desire to let go of the past. Fridays and Saturdays 7:30 pm *Note: Opening Night Dinners are an additional $40 per subscriber Saturday and Sundays 2 pm and require a reservation to secure seating at these special events. $10 Adults/$5 Students Ages 6-22 per show Children 5 and under FREE $25/$10 for the whole Carnival Spring Youth Chorale Concert: Opening Night Dinner* and Performance: Sat. Jan. 21, 6pm La Lluvia May 12-13, 7pm Th e Carnival is an energizing, fun, and heartfelt $10 General Admission/$5 Students series of new works. Your Flex, Th eater, or All Children 5 and under FREE Access Pass gives you all access to the entire Th e Hubbard Hall Youth Chorale returns for their Carnival. Come once – come oft en. Th is year’s second Spring Concert, performing beautiful Carnival will focus on plays and monologues Rites of Spring Gala and fun pieces ranging from modern hits, and created with our community focused on issues May 20, 6pm showstopping showtunes to choral classics, of farming and our connection to the land and Ticket: $100 celebrating water in all forms. nature here in our region. Hubbard Hall is proud Join us for our annual Rites of Spring Gala, our to partner with the Agricultural Stewardship biggest fundraiser of the year and a time to come *Music dates subject to change Association and Young Playwrights’ Th eater of together and celebrate our swing into spring! Washington, DC to create and share this new Th ere’ll be, as always, a delicious dinner by Sal & work. Piper Catering, a silent auction for some amazing prizes, gorgeous music provided by David Cuite’s Freight Yard Quartet, and a relaxed atmosphere of community and camaraderie. SPRING 2017 CLASSES - WORKSHOPS

Modern Jazz for Teens and Adults Dance Mob for National Dance Week and stamina. After BollyX, those who wish to with Heidi Knecht-Seegers Wednesdays, 6:30-7:30pm stay will dive into performance choreography as Mondays 5:30-7:00pm 7-week series: March 8-April 26 (no class 4/19) well as explore across-the-floor movements, foot Spring Term: Feb 6- June 5 (No class 2/20, 4/17, 5/29) Cost: $55 includes t-shirt rhythms, and storytelling hand gestures (mudras). Term Tuition: $285 (includes $15 costume fee) or Beacon Feed Dance Studio This fast-moving class is recommended for teens Autopay 5 monthly payments of $59 and adults (participants ages 10 and up are Single drop-in: $19, First for $5 Be part of the fun and join the nationwide welcome). Please bring clean, indoor sneakers for Beacon Feed Dance Studio celebration of National Dance Week this spring! BollyX and a water bottle. All ages and levels welcome, recommended for Stretch and strengthen your body in this funky, ages 10 and up. This year’s choreography will be Rural Soul Studio is fast moving class while learning some basic posted on www.nationaldanceweek.org in early coming to Cambridge! technique and cool modern jazz combinations. 2017. Join us for the workshop series to learn the The class will be set to current pop, indie, latin, Once a week, Chelsie Henderson is at Hubbard moves and share the camaraderie as we rehearse reggae, and other inspiring music, featuring Hall to give private and small group music lessons the dance. Tuition includes your official National artists such as Woodkid, Vance Joy, Phantogram, for students interested in learning piano, voice, Dance Week t-shirt. Then dance with us as we Everything Everything, Justin Timberlake, ukulele and/or African drums. Lesson times are head out to locations around the region on Pitbull, Lady Gaga, Beyonce, Rihanna, Black available on Tuesdays between 2pm and 5:30pm Saturday, April 29! Eyed Peas, Shakira, and more. Improvisation and at the Freight Depot. Please contact Chelsie at choreography will be encouraged. [email protected] for more information! Dance Fitness for All Ages ***NEW CLASS*** Advanced Beginning Ballet Valley Artisans Market with Brittany Bush with Elizabeth Call Wednesdays, 7:30-8:30pm Small Gallery Schedule 2017 Mondays 7:00-8:30pm Spring Term: Feb 8-June 21 (No class 2/22, 4/19) January 20 – February 14: Susan Rivers: Quilts Spring Term: Feb 6- June 5 (No class 2/20, 4/17, 5/29) Single drop-in: $13, First for $5 February 17 – March 14: Debra Ann Salat, Kris Term Tuition: $285 (includes $15 costume fee) or Term Tuition: $180 or Autopay 5 monthly payments of $38 Continuing Irish Step Gregson Moss: Embroidery Autopay 5 monthly payments of $59 Beacon Feed Dance Studio with Darcy May Single drop-in: $19, First for $5 March 17 – April 11: Mark Tougias: Paintings Spring Term: Feb 10-June 9 (no class 2/24, 4/21, 5/12) Beacon Feed Dance Studio Term Tuition: $180 or Autopay 5 monthly payments of $38 April 14 – May 9: Beverley Mastrianni: Sculpture This high-energy class for all ages is the perfect Jim Schreiner: Adirondack workout! Fun, fitness, and friends—this intense Single drop-in: $13, First for $5 May 12 – June 6: This class is suitable for older children who have Beacon Feed Dance Studio Furniture; Teresa Breuer: Handmade Lamps and class will push your limits and make you break a had at least 2 years of ballet training, and for Botanical Lampshades sweat! Set to upbeat, popular music, it’s the most adults with some ballet experience. The focus will Fridays 4:00-5:00pm, Advanced Beginner Irish Step Gigi Begin: Designs on Wood enjoyable workout you can get! June 9 – July 4: be on refining body placement and strengthening (Friday Session) technique, while experiencing an energizing This class is for dancers who have completed Irish workout. Carefully selected choreography from Ballerina Princesses for Ages 3-5 2/3 or the Boys Sailor Jig class last year. Dancers classic ballets will be occasionally included during ***NEW CLASS*** will continue to review Jig steps, while learning center work to provide challenge, inspiration, and with Lindsay Shaner new beginner Reel steps and focusing on the Two- a deeper understanding of classical ballet. Thursdays, 9:30-10:15am Hand-Reel. WEEKLY CLASSES Spring Term: Feb 9-June 8 (No class 2/23, 3/30, 4/20) Term Tuition: $195 (includes $15 costume fee) or SPRING 2017 Beginning Pointe Autopay 5 monthly payments of $41 Fridays 5:30-6:30pm, Irish Step 5 with Elizabeth Call Single drop-in: $13, First for $5 This class is for dancers who completed Irish 4 last Please register in advance so that we may keep Mondays 8:30-9:00pm Beacon Feed Dance Studio year. Dancers will be learning Gypsy, an advanced you up-to-date on any schedule changes and avoid Spring Term: Feb 6- June 5 (No class 2/20, 4/17, 5/29) 2-hand-reel, as well as beginning hard shoe with cancellation of an underenrolled class. If you plan to Term Tuition: $90 or Autopay 5 monthly payments of $20 Come spend the morning dancing like your a Treble Jig. stop by and try a class (First for $5), please call to be Single drop-in: $10, First for $5 favorite princess! While getting lost in magical Beacon Feed Dance Studio sure the class is happening and is accepting drop-ins. kingdoms, dancers will be introduced to the Fridays 6:00-7:00pm, Intermediate Irish 2 basics of ballet as well as creative movement. Feel This class is for dancers who completed This class is for those interested in pursuing an Multiple-class and family discounts are available free to dress up like your favorite princess! Intermediate Irish last year. Dancers will learn when you register for three or more classes. in-depth experience of classical ballet training advanced reels, as well as St. Patrick’s Day, a and will focus on exercises to develop strength in Call for details! Beginning Ballet traditional hard shoe set dance. We want everyone to experience the arts! the feet, lower legs, and core to dance on pointe. At least 2 years of ballet instruction is necessary with Carman Bogle Please ask about our tuition assistance program if it Spring Term: Feb 9-June 8 (No class 2/23, 4/20) Fridays 6:30-7:30pm, Advanced Irish 1 would enable you to attend. as well as permission of the instructor. If new Term Tuition: $195 (includes $15 costume fee) or This class is for dancers who completed Applications for Spring scholarship aid should be to pointe work, please do not purchase pointe Autopay 5 monthly payments of $41 Intermediate Irish l last year (but already learned submitted by February 1 for priority consideration. shoes without contacting the instructor through Single drop-in: $13, First for $5 Gypsy). Dancers will be learning St. Patrick’s Day, Application available as a PDF at www.hubbardhall. Hubbard Hall first. Beacon Feed Dance Studio a traditional hard shoe set dance, as well as an org/class-registration/ or stop by and pick one up! advanced slip jig. Lyrical Dance Ages 8-12 Thursdays 3:30-4:15pm, Pre-Ballet for ages 3-4 ***NEW CLASS*** This class introduces young dancers to the Fridays 7:00-8:00pm, Advanced Irish 2 with Lindsay Shaner basics movements of ballet. They will learn This class is for dancers who completed Advanced DANCE Tuesdays, 3:30-4:30pm the foundational movements of ballet at a fun, Irish last year. Dancers will be learning an Spring Term: Feb 7 – June 6 (no class 2/21, 4/18) easy pace. Special consideration is given to the advanced slip jig, as well as continuing hard shoe: Term Tuition: $195 (includes $15 costume fee) attention span of children in this age group by Treble Reel and Hornpipe. Creative Movement for Ages 2-3 Single drop-in: $13, First for $5 incorporating dancing games and imagination. Beacon Feed Dance Studio Pre-Flurry Contra Dance Workshops with Lindsay Shaner Thursdays 4:30-5:15pm, Intro to Ballet for ages 5-6 Mondays 9:00-9:45am Saturdays 2:00-4:00pm Beacon Feed Dance Studio A beautiful combination of ballet and jazz This class introduces dancers to the foundations Three-week Series: Jan 14, 28, Feb 4 Session 1, 6 weeks: Feb 6- Mar 20 (no class 2/20) technique characterized by the expressing of of the ballet class structure. They will begin to Series cost: $20 Session Tuition: $60, Single drop-in: $13, First for $5 emotions and telling of stories, changing a song learn ballet vocabulary and technique through Single drop-in: $13, First for $5 Session 2, 5 weeks: April 3-May 8 (no class 4/17) from a listening experience into a movement and barre work, centre work, and allegro work Beacon Feed Dance Studio Session Tuition: $50, Single drop-in: $13, First for $5 visual experience. No previous dance experience (jumping). Dancers at this age group still learn Session 3, 5 weeks: May 15- June 19 (no class 5/29) required. through creativity and use of imagination, as this Heading to The Flurry Festival in Saratoga in Session Tuition: $50, Single drop-in: $13, First for $5 class incorporates dance games and activities to February? It’s the biggest, best, most eclectic, feel- Theatrical Jazz, Ages 15-Adult reinforce basic ballet techniques. good festival of traditional social dance and music This class is an introduction to basic ballet and in the Capital Region. These workshops will hone ***NEW CLASS*** creative movement skills for the littlest dancer. Thursdays 5:30-6:30pm, Beginning Ballet for ages 7-9 your skills so you’ll be ready to join in the swingin’, We’ll jump, skip, turn, balance on one foot, tip toe, with Brittany Bush At this age there is an increase in a child’s attention stompin’, high-energy fun of contra dancing— and twirl. While dancing, we’ll also be working Tuesdays, 7:45-8:45pm span that allows them to stay focused for longer and dance with confidence! No previous dance on age-appropriate skills such as listening and Spring Term: Feb 7 – June 6 (no class 2/21, 4/18) Term Tuition: $195 (includes $15 costume fee) periods of time. This class focuses on perfecting experience necessary and no partner needed. following directions, waiting patiently for our or Autopay 5 monthly payments of $41 ballet techniques through barre work, centre work Workshops led by caller Fern Bradley with live turn, and following the leader. Feel free to bring Single drop-in: $13, First for $5 and allegro work (jumping). Greatest emphasis is music by the Hubbard Hall Tune Jam Band. your favorite baby doll or stuffed animal! Beacon Feed Dance Studio placed on correct positions and an increase in intricate steps and combinations. The beauty and Hip Hop & Jazz, ages 8-12 Get sassy, get bold, test your limits! This class will grace of body movements in ballet will begin to with Heidi Knecht-Seegers challenge you to step outside the self you always form at this level. Mondays 4:30-5:30pm knew and find your inner Broadway star. With Spring Term: Feb 6- June 5 (No class 2/20, 4/17, 5/29) Bollywood & BollyX Term Tuition: $195 (includes $15 costume fee) or fun, funky moves inspired by Fosse and other Autopay 5 monthly payments of $41 theatrical choreographers, this class is sure to rock with Gina Deibel Single drop-in: $13, First for $5 your world! Thursdays, 6:30-8:00pm Beacon Feed Dance Studio FREE Demo Class: January 26 Beginning Irish Step Dance Spring Term: Feb 2-June 1 (no class 2/23, 4/20) Session Cost: $160, Single drop-in: $13, First for $5 Kids ages 8-12 dance their way through this with Darcy May Beacon Feed Dance Studio funky, exciting, high-energy class for beginners. Spring Term: Feb 8-June 7 (No class 2/22, 4/19) Term Tuition: $180 or Autopay 5 monthly payments of $38 What’s on your iPod? If you like dancing to Bollywood dance is bold, dramatic, and fun! The music by Pitbull, Ed Sheeran, Sia, Katy Perry, Single drop-in: $13, First for $5 Beacon Feed Dance Studio music is ultra-high-energy and participants are Usher, Justin Bieber, Selena Gomez, Lady Gaga encouraged to smile, express themselves boldly, and other current pop artists, you’ll love this Wednesdays 4:00-5:00pm, Irish Step 1 Beginner Irish Step (beginners age 7 to adult) and unleash their inner rockstar. This spring, our funky, exciting, high-energy class for beginners! class will begin with a 45-minute BollyX dance Learn basic technique, awesome moves and Beginner jig and introduction to reel steps. workout followed by an additional 45 minutes cool combinations done to contemporary hit of Bollywood technique and choreography for music. Improvisation and choreography will be Wednesdays 5:00-6:00pm Advanced Beginner Irish Step (Wednesday Session) those interested in performing in the June dance encouraged as well. showcase. It’s a non-stop Bollywood dance party! This class is for students who have completed Irish BollyX is a Bollywood-inspired dance-fitness 1 or Irish 2/3 last year. Dancers will continue to program and a fun way to learn lots of new review Jig steps, while learning new beginner Reel Bollywood moves while increasing our strength steps and focusing on the Two-Hand-Reel. Hubbard Hall Find out more visit www.hubbardhall.org Quick View Calendar Beginning Tai Ji & Qi Gong representation. Working from still-lives, interiors, with Scott Carrino and imagination, we will build confidence in PERFORMANCE Thursdays, 8:00-9:30am drawing and can obtain basic tools for future art Spring Term: Feb 9-June 22 (No class 2/23, 4/20) making. Homeschoolers welcome. JANUARY Hubbard Hall Youth Chorale Term Tuition: $270 or Autopay 5 monthly payments of $56 Winter Carnival of New Work directed by Kyra Fitzgerald, with Richard Cherry Single drop-in: $19, First for $5 Watercolor for Young Artists Drop-in Class Card $130: 11 drop-in hours for the price of 10 January 21-29 Wednesdays, 5:30-7:00 pm Fridays and Saturdays 7:30pm hours. This class uses 1.5 hours on your class card per drop-in. with Gabi Moore Spring Term: Jan 11 –May 10 Saturdays and Sundays 2:00pm (No rehearsal 2/22, 3/22, 4/19) Beacon Feed Dance Studio Tuesdays 4:00-5:00pm Six week session: Feb 28-April 4 Performances: May 12-13, 7pm Term Tuition: $75 (includes $15 materials fee) Cost: FREE Tai Ji is an ancient martial art rooted in Chinese Beacon Feed Visual Arts Studio Hubbard Hall Mainstage Taoism, practiced in slow and graceful forms Ages 13-18; Open to students throughout the Capital Region using gentle movements. Wear loose, comfortable FEBRUARY Young artists ages 9-12 can learn pleasurable and and VT. Maximum of 30 participants. clothing in layers and bring light, sturdy footwear delightful watercolor techniques, making images (no street shoes) and a beginner’s mind to class. Spring Term Begins Based on the legendary model of the Battenkill full of color, texture, and translucent brushwork February 6 that make watercolor painting an adventure. Chorale, Hubbard Hall is thrilled to offer its Foil Fencing second year of the Youth Chorale. This group Working from still-life and imagination, children Valentine’s Cabaret with Richard Cherry will acquire studio skills on which they can build hosted by Bob Warren will rehearse and perform as part of professional 9-week term: Feb 11-April 8 performances in the Hall and have opportunities to independently, perhaps for many years of joyful February 11, 7pm tour throughout the region to schools, community Beginning Foil: Saturdays, 10:30-11:30am art-making on their own. centers, and retirement communities. Term Tuition: $90 Film Forum Are you a teen who loves to sing? Whether you Single drop-in: $13, First for $5 February 18, 7pm sing solos in the school talent show, rock out in the shower, or prefer to just sing along to the radio in Continuing Foil: Saturdays, 10:00-11:30am YOGA Blues & Brews Term Tuition: $135 February 25, 7pm the car, this is a great opportunity for you to learn Single drop-in: $19, First for $5 more and share your talent with the world! Join Beacon Feed Dance Studio the Youth Chorale and become part of a team of Gentle Evening Yoga with Elizabeth Dunn singers that will learn the ins and outs of vocal Sword fencing is an ancient martial art that Tuesdays 6:35-7:35pm performance while preparing to sing beautiful combines the speed and athleticism of boxing MARCH music in front of live audiences! Students will Spring Term: Feb 7 – June 20 (no class 2/21, 4/18) with the strategic thinking of chess. You will learn Term Tuition: $180 or Autopay 5 monthly payments of $38 learn to read music and perform as a group while The Book Club Play intermediate to advanced strategy and technique Single drop-in: $13, First for $5 bolstering their confidence and their abilities to March 4-19 appropriate to your level, as well as get a chance to Drop-in Class Card $130: 11 drop-in hours for the price of 10 Fridays and Saturdays 7:30pm express themselves through rhythm and melody. practice your skill against other fencers. hours. This class uses 1 hour on your class card per drop-in. Saturdays and Sundays 2:00pm Youth Chorale will perform their Spring Concert Recommended for teens and adults, but students Beacon Feed Dance Studio on May 12-13 at 7pm with a mandatory dress as young as 8 may participate with instructor This class will be a gentle blend of breath Annual St. Patrick’s Day Ceili rehearsal on Thursday May 11th. March 15th, 7pm permission. Foil students will need a pair of awareness, movement, static and dynamic yoga, CLEAN sneakers for inside use only. Optional integrating breath awareness and meditation to Fundamentals of Acting Ages 8-13 equipment rental ($5 per class) is available directly ***NEW CLASS*** help improve muscle function, reduce stress, and from the instructor. increase your sense of well-being. with Rebecca Dragon APRIL Thursdays, 6:00-7:00pm Six-week session: Feb 9-Mar 23 (no class 2/23) Wednesday Yoga: Alignment Music From Salem Concert Session Cost: $60 VISUAL ARTS Centered Hatha Yoga April 9, 4pm Beacon Feed Board Room with Zaidee Bliss Wednesdays, 7:30-9:00am The Glass Menagerie This 6-week class will introduce participants to all Spring Term: Feb 8-June 21 (No class 2/22, 4/19) April 22-May 7 the basics needed to perform a simple monologue. Term Tuition: $270 or Autopay 5 monthly payments of $56 Fridays and Saturdays 7:30pm As a group, we will explore character development, Single drop-in: $19, First for $5 Saturdays and Sundays 2:00pm use of the body and voice, different methods of Drop-in Class Card $130: 11 drop-in hours for the price of 10 acting, and authentic stage performance as an art. hours. This class uses 1.5 hours on your class card per drop-in. Spring Perennial Sale At the final class, we will perform our monologues Beacon Feed Dance Studio April 29, 7-11am for family and friends. If there is a continued With a focus on alignment and the development interest in this class, it may run another six week of body awareness, Zaidee leads her students session during the Spring term. through a variety of yoga poses and other modes of corrective movement to help students discover MAY and uncover their most optimal posture and form in the poses themselves as well as off the mat Spring Youth Chorale Concert: in daily life. This class includes discussion and La Lluvia question/answer regarding how the teachings of May 12-13, 7:00pm Art Adventures K-2 yoga relate to life and the asana. Most students in this class have been practicing together for many Rites of Spring Gala with Gabi Moore years, and their added wisdom makes this class May 20, 6pm Mondays 3:30-4:15pm 6-week Session: Jan 3-Feb 7 unique and fulfilling. Zaidee teaches in such a way MARTIAL ARTS Term Tuition: $75 (including $15 materials fee) that both beginners and experienced practitioners Beacon Feed Visual Arts Studio alike will be comfortable and enjoy the experience. You can learn more about what to expect in a class JUNE Continuing Tai Ji with Zaidee by joining us one day! This session we will explore collage, watercolor, Year-end Dance Showcase With Scott Carrino and printing for the youngest artists. Young artists Tuesdays, 8:00-9:30am Open Yoga, All Levels June 10, 4pm and 7pm Spring Term: Feb 7 – June 20 (no class 2/21, 4/18) will explore textures and color effects as they use Term Tuition: $270 or Autopay 5 monthly payments of $56 their imagination to create wonderful images of with Elizabeth Dunn Film Forum Single drop-in: $19, First for $5 fantastic animals, magical landscapes, and designs Fridays 8:30-10:00am June 17, 7pm Drop-in Class Card $130: 11 drop-in hours for the price of 10 of their own creations. Participants acquire skills Spring Term: Feb 10-June 23 (no class 2/24, 4/21) hours. This class uses 1.5 hours on your class card per drop-in. in arts, presentation, color mixing, and group Term Tuition: $270 or Autopay 5 monthly payments of $56 Beacon Feed Dance Studio Single drop-in: $19 First for $5 interaction. Dress for mess! Drop-in Class Card $130: 11 drop-in hours for the price of 10 hours. This class uses 1.5 hours on your class card per drop-in. Tai Ji is an ancient martial art rooted in Chinese Group Mural Project: Wildlife Habitat Beacon Feed Dance Studio Taoism, practiced in slow and graceful forms of Battenkill Valley for 3rd-5th Graders using gentle movements. This class will focus with Gabi Moore A supportive environment where we will explore on Tai Ji Sabre forms. Wear loose, comfortable Mondays 4:30-5:30pm the basics of a yoga practice. We will focus clothing in layers and bring light, sturdy footwear 6-week Session: Jan 3-Feb 7 on aligning breath, energy and intention with (no street shoes) and a beginner’s mind to class. Term Tuition:$75 (including $15 materials fee) movement. Beacon Feed Visual Arts Studio Karate Supported Yoga with Sensei Alan Haskell This art class will teach your 3rd-5th graders how with Elizabeth Dunn Spring Term: Feb 7 – June 20 (no class 2/21, 4/18) to use color, linear perspective, texture, sighting Fridays 10:30-11:30am Term Tuition: $180 or Autopay 5 monthly payments of $38 techniques and two dimensional design to create Spring Term: Feb 10-June 23 (no class 2/24, 4/21) Single drop-in: $13, First for $5 a mural. Students will learn about color, textures, Term Tuition: $180 or Autopay 5 monthly payments of $38 Beacon Feed Dance Studio and effects to bring their local landscape to greater Single drop-in: $13 First for $5 vibrancy and expressive power. They will also Drop-in Class Card $130: 11 drop-in hours for the price of 10 Tuesdays 4:45-5:30pm, Karate 1/2 for ages 5-8 learn to work from life in still-life and objects hours. This class uses 1 hour on your class card per drop-in. Beacon Feed Dance Studio Tuesdays 5:30-6:30pm, Karate 3 for ages 9 and up from the Pember Museum. Each child will receive Are you looking for an activity for your youngster a section of the mural as well as a photograph of A wonderful way to experience the many that will instill discipline and self-confidence? the complete piece. benefits of a yoga practice in a supported way. Participation in a martial arts class has been We will be using chairs, the wall and blankets proven to do just that. Students will learn about Drawing throughout this gentle class. We will integrate physical fitness along with mental and physical With Gabi Moore breath awareness and meditation to help improve self-control. While team sports are good for us Tuesdays 9:00-10:30am muscle function, reduce stress, and increase your all, in a martial arts program there is no sitting on Six week session: Feb 28-April 4 sense of well-being. Class will be a gentle blend of the bench. All students have the same opportunity Term Tuition: $105 (includes $15 materials fee) breath awareness, movement, static and dynamic to learn, grow, and determine their own level of Beacon Feed Visual Arts Studio yoga, reiki, and aromatherapy. This class is ideal participation. See for yourself what a traditional for seniors, anyone who is trying to integrate karate class can do for your young ones. Learn basic principles of drawing using graphite, movement into their lives, and those who are A Karate uniform is recommended however a t-shirt charcoal, and ink. We will focus on line and managing a chronic illness or injury (with doctor and loose-fitting, ankle-length pants are acceptable. tone, applying marks effectively, creating texture, approval). Looking forward to seeing you! and using sighting techniques for accurate Hubbard Hall SPRING 2017 INSTRUCTORS Quick View Class Calendar HOW TO REGISTER FOR A CLASS MONDAY www.hubbardhall.org | 518-677-2495 | [email protected] Creative Movement Ages 2-3 Visit our new Community Center in the front of Hubbard Hall to register in person from Tuesday-Friday 10 am-5 pm. 9:00-9:45am Please register in advance so that we may keep you up-to-date on any schedule changes. This also helps to avoid Hip Hop and Jazz 4:30-5:30pm unnecessary cancellation of a class. If you plan to stop by and try a class (First for $5), please call to be sure the class is happening and is accepting drop-ins. Multiple-class and family discounts are available when you register for three Modern Jazz 5:30-7:00pm or more classes. Advanced Beginning Ballet 7:00-8:30pm Call for details! We want everyone to experience the arts! Beginning Pointe 8:30-9:00pm Please ask about our tuition assistance program if it would enable you to attend. Applications for Spring scholarship aid should be submitted by February 1 for priority consideration. TUESDAY Application available as a PDF at www.hubbardhall.org or stop by and pick one up! Continuing Tai Ji 8:00-9:30am

Drawing 9:00-10:30am teaching sword-fencing in the local area since Heidi Knecht-Seegers (Hip-Hop and Lyrical Dance Ages 8-12 INSTRUCTORS 1999.He has been the Musical Director for a 3:30-4:30pm Modern Jazz) has taught, choreographed, and number of theater companies in the region. performed for many years in NYC as well as Zaidee Bliss (Yoga) is certified in Kripalu Richard has been a faculty member of the Watercolor for Young Artists in the Capital/Saratoga region. She founded yoga and has received extensive training in Canberra School of Music in Australia and 4:00-5:00pm the Moving Feet Dance Company, was a Anusara. Her classes pay special attention of the Rockland Conservatory of Music and guest choreographer for Margaret Wagner to correct alignment in order to more safely the Blue Rock School in Rockland County, and Dancers, and has performed with Ellen Karate 1/2, Ages 5-8 enhance your practice. Monday classes focus 4:45-5:30pm New York. He presently works in the Music Sinopoli, Balinese American Dance Theatre, on the basics and are accessible to all levels. Department at Skidmore College. Laura Gates Carlson, John Passifiume, Wednesday classes focus on supporting Karate 3, Ages 9 and up Moving Images, Jamie Stiller, and the Non- continuing students to expand your yoga 5:30-6:30pm Gina Mammone Deibel (Bollywood/Bolly Canonical Ensemble. Heidi has been on the repertoire but are accessible to all levels. X) studied classical Indian dance (Odissi faculty at Russell Sage and has guest taught at Gentle Evening Yoga 6:35-7:35pm style) and various folk traditions for 10 years Carman Bogle Union College, Skidmore College, Berkshire (Pre-Ballet, Intro to Ballet, with guru Ranjanaa Devi and performed Ballet, and at Ballet Regent School. studied ballet as a child Theatrical Jazz 7:45-8:45pm Beginning Ballet) with Nataraj Performing Arts based in and through her teenage years in Rutland, Hadley, MA. Her background in dance also Darcy May (Irish Step Dance) is a 1985 Vermont where she performed in The includes jazz, modern, tap, ballet, flamenco, graduate of the University of the Arts, WEDNESDAY Nutcracker with Ballet Manchester at the Middle Eastern, lindy-hop, and yoga. She Philadelphia. She studied Irish Dance as a Smith Center and The Dorset Playhouse. is a member of daCi (Dance and the Child child at Fay and O’Connell School of Irish After becoming a wife and mother, Carman Wednesday Yoga 7:30-9:00am International), holds degrees in Childhood Dance in Pearl River, NY, and danced with continued to enjoy a love of dance, using her Education and Television/Film Studies from Wild Irish Acres of Saratoga Springs. Darcy skills as a cheerleading coach and for various Beginner Irish Step 4:00-5:00pm Boston University, has taught in the US and has taught at Hubbard Hall since 2004. She church & community events/benefits. the UK, and has performed throughout the also illustrates children’s books. Advanced Beginning Irish (Wed.) Carman joined the Hubbard Hall faculty in Northeast. 2014 and says the experience has been “a 5:00-6:00pm Gabi Moore (Visual Arts) is an artist and true honor and privilege.” Rebecca Dragon (Acting) was raised teacher with over 15 years experience leading Youth Chorale 5:30-7:00pm on Captiol Hill, in Washington DC, and Fern Bradley art workshops for people of all ages. She (Contra Dance) is a regional grew up in the theater. She was trained holds a Master’s Degree in Fine Arts from Dance Mob Workshops favorite dance caller and instructor in the in dance, acting, and voice at Capitol the Graduate School of Figurative Art from 6:30-7:30pm Hudson Valley and Capital Region. New Hill Arts Workshop. At the University of the New York Academy of Art in New York and experienced dancers alike appreciate Massachusetts, she majored in Theater with Dance Fitness 7:30-8:30pm City. Teaching for eleven years at Fordham her relaxed teaching style, her warm voice, a focus on performance with a penchant for University, Gabi led courses in Anatomical and her knack for choosing dances that are voice training, and was trained in Suzuki with Drawing, Painting, and Drawing. Since she just the right fit for the mix of dancers on the Stage West. Since graduating, she performed, moved to Cambridge in 2000, she has taught THURSDAY floor. but has shifted her focus to teaching voice at Hubbard Hall and the Community Center and acting. She is a homeschooling mom to at the Salem Court House. Gabi continues Beginning Tai Ji & Qi Gong Brittany Bush (Dance Fitness, Theatrical Jazz) three Hubbard Hall Irish Step Dancers. 8:00-9:30am to work on her own figurative art, painting has been dancing since she could walk and people in quiet moments, between actions, started her first dance class in third grade. Elizabeth Dunn (Yoga) is a licensed massage observed as they interact in outdoor spaces. Ballerina Princess, Ages 3-5 Her love of dance has grown with her, and 9:30-10:15am therapist and yoga teacher who trained with Gabi lives in the village of Cambridge with she has been teaching and choreographing Shiva Rea at Kripalu and graduated in 2012 her 2 children. many different styles since sophomore year Pre-Ballet 3:30-4:15pm from the year-long intensive Urban Zen of high school, and has loved working with Integrative Therapy program. Elizabeth Lindsay Shaner (Creative Movement, students of all ages. She is ecstatic to share Intro to Ballet 4:30-5:15pm has taught yoga in a variety of settings and Ballerina Princess) received her B.S. in Dance her passion for dance with the Hubbard Hall through her experience with yoga and from Radford University, graduating with Beginning Ballet 5:30-6:30pm community! massage she has been exposed to a wide honors. Since then, she has performed range of people and their needs. Elizabeth Elizabeth Call professionally with Footworks Percusive Fundamentals of Acting (Advanced Beginning Ballet, has volunteered in hospice, traveled to Haiti Dance Ensemble and spent the past 15 6:00-7:00pm Pointe) studied ballet in California with to work with hospital patients, doctors, and years teaching. While she has experience Faith Heidemann, Alexandra Kosloff, Mia caregivers through yoga and integrative teaching, ballet, tap, jazz, modern, pointe, Bollywood & BollyX 6:30-8:00pm Slavenska, and Kira Ivanovsky. She danced therapy, taught yoga in the Sandy Hook and hip hop, Lindsay’s focus and passion in several regional ballet companies there: school to teachers who survived the for the last several years has been teaching Ballet Fantasque, Ballet Etc. and LA Ballet. Newtown tragedy, and worked with artists creative movement and ballet to 2-5yr olds. FRIDAY In New York she did concert work in various such as Bruce Springsteen, Toby Keith, dance styles and continued her ballet studies and others. Elizabeth’s classes are a simple Open Yoga All Levels 8:30-10:00am with Gus Dick Andros, Julia Simmone, and blend of yoga, breath awareness, body scan, Nanette Charisse. She taught ballet at the aromatherapy, and reiki. Supported Yoga 10:30-11:30am Poppenhusen Institute in Queens, and at Lycee Francais, and Broadway Dance Center Kyra Fitzgerald (Youth Chorale, Program Advanced Beginner Irish (Fri.) in Manhattan. Elizabeth has been a licensed Director) is graduate of the College of Saint 4:00-5:00pm acupuncturist for 22 years and is able to use Rose with a degree in Music Education with her training in anatomy to aid students in a concentration in vocal music. She has Irish Step Dance 5 5:30-6:30pm correct placement and form. She maintains a always had a love for music, joining every private acupuncture practice in Greenwich, ART Intermediate Irish 2 6:00-7:00pm chorus, choir, and other vocal ensemble she NY. could both in school and in the community. Advanced Irish 1 6:30-7:30pm She is now in her second year as Program Scott Carrino (Tai Ji) has studied Taoism Director, her fourth year directing the CCS Advanced Irish 2 7:00-8:00pm and Tai Ji as a method of centering and as Drama Club, her second year directing the a metaphor for life for the past 31 years. HAPPENS Hubbard Hall Youth Chorale, and her third Teaching Yang Style solo, two-person, sabre year performing at Hubbard Hall, most and sword forms since 1986, he has cultivated recently seen in Othello and Peter and the SATURDAY an integrated understanding of chi (vital Starcatcher. energy) and the mysteries and power of the Continuing Foil Fencing HERE 10:00-11:30am Tao. He is a teaching member of the Living Sensei Alan Haskell (Karate) has studied Tao Foundation for the past fifteen years, martial arts since 1983 and has seen first- Beginning Foil Fencing and published their newsletter for 10 years. hand the many benefits of proper martial arts 10:30-11:30am Scott is a founding member of Pompanuck training for both young and older students. Farm and co-owner of Roundhouse Bakery Sensei Haskell holds the rank of Sandan (3rd Pre-Flurry Contra Dance and Cafe. Degree Black Belt) and has placed multiple 2:00-4:00pm times in competitions of Kata (forms) and hubbardhall.org Richard Cherry (Foil Fencing, Youth Chorale) Sparring. He has taught in the Cambridge is a pupil of Herb Cohen who fenced on area for many years and joined the faculty of three US Olympic teams. Richard has been Hubbard Hall in 2012.