Northampton IDEA is an interactive & supportive context for new performance pieces: dance, music, theater & writing. Each of the four performances (none longer than 10 minutes) is followed by 5 minutes of writing time for the audience. After the final performance we gather in a circle to share our writing -- thus weaving together our collective experience of the performance.
IDEA was launched in Amsterdam by Christina Svane & Pauline de Groot in 1991 at Pauline’s Studio de Koe. It began as a monthly experiment in a new performance paradigm, in which performer and audience have an exchange in the language of imagery and intuition, instead of criticism and speculation. It became a meeting ground for the itinerant global dance community, and after a few year’s hiatus, is once again going strong. Christina Svane moved IDEA to America in 2004 at Studio Firenze, in Florence, Mass., and now hosts it at The Blue Guitar Gallery in Easthampton.
Responses to the Summer solstice 2009 IDEA performances are now up.
the next IDEA will be at the Autumn Equinox, September 19, 7:30
please contact us if you would like to perform.
donation $5
The Blue Guitar Dance Studio & Performance Space offers artists of all kinds - visual, performing, literary – a venue for teaching, rehearsing, performing, collaborating & exchanging ideas. We are located four minutes from the centers of Northampton and Easthampton.
We are also home to The Bill O’Haire Guitar Studio, where children and adults learn the art of playing the guitar. The studio hosts seasonal guitar concerts featuring the students.
We have a 25 x 48 foot sprung maple floor that is versatile as a yoga, dance and theater studio, as well as a performance space that can be used lengthwise or widthwise, with chairs, cushions, stage curtain and minimal stage lights.
We welcome you to The Blue Guitar!
Bill O’Haire and Christina Svane, Directors