MADISON PALFFY

Madison Palffy is a dance maker, movement educator, and performing artist based in western Massachusetts. She holds an MFA in Dance and Choreography with an emphasis in Somatics and Improvisation from University of Colorado, Boulder. Her performance work is driven by a sense of experimentation and artistic cross-pollination and has been shown across the United States as well as in Montreal and Berlin.

Madison has studied various somatic modalities including Body Mind Centering under the tutelage of Erika Berland, Alexander Technique with Nada Diachenko, Fascial Flossing with Bonnie Crotzer, and trained and taught at Ape Co Movement School for three years. Most recently, she completed her Pilates Mat Certification training at The Pilates Space in Great Barrington and is in the process of her Comprehensive Certification. She delights in co-mingling her training in dance and somatics with Pilates.

As an educator, Madison has been on faculty at Pioneer Valley Performing Arts Charter School, Berkshire Pulse, SCDT, Northampton Center for the Arts, Block 1750, Ape Co Movement School, and The Spark Performing Arts Center. She was a graduate teaching instructor at University of Colorado Boulder and has been a guest teaching artist at Keene State College, Amherst College, Hampshire College, Moving Target Portland, Earthdance Workshop & Retreat Center, the Williston Northampton School and as an in-school teaching artist in Springfield, Holyoke, and Pittsfield public schools.

She is currently an adjunct faculty member in the dance program at Keene State College and teaches at Berkshire Pulse, Loculus Studios (which she co-directs), and Ascendance.

Visit: madisonpalffy.com