Following the Most Wuthering Heights DAY ever, 10 Forward presents a night of dance, film, and live music in the spirit of visionary singer/choreographer/artist Kate Bush.

Madison Palffy of Loculus Dance Collective has recently finished a film she calls a “psychedelic dance mocumentary” titled “The Kate Bush Factor” which we will be playing at the beginning of the night!

Free entry for all Kate Bush impersonators who take part in the days festivities.

LOCULUS is a dance collective founded in 2015 in Western Massachusetts by Five College Dance alumni. Currently LOCULUS is the creative platform of Olana Flynn and Madison Palffy. Olana holds an MFA in Experimental Choreography from the University of California Riverside; her current research looks at improvisational movement and analog technologies for looping and layering such as 35mm photography and electronic music in relation to liminality and memory. Madison is currently pursuing an MFA in Dance at CU Boulder where she is researching the intersection of queer futurity, black radical thought, and science fiction as a way to think about new models of collectivity and survival. LOCULUS has performed throughout the northeast often in collaboration with DIY musicians and artists in non-traditional dance performance spaces. In addition to creating, curating, and producing performance events LOCULUS publishes The Loculus Journal. The Loculus Journal is a platform for engaging critically around questions of the body in dance and performance across discipline and medium. LOCULUS is committed to inclusive, anti-oppressive curation in performance and publishing.

The Kate Bush Factor centers on performers Elle Hong and Madison Palffy in their journey towards distilling the magic of what makes UK pop star, Kate Bush, so compelling. Recontextualizing experimental film and mockumentary as structured dance-improvisation, the two tap into Bush’s excess, indulgence, drag performance, wistfulness, and longing as embodied strategies for fugitivity and queer worldbuilding. Hong and Palffy become subsumed in their quest for embodying the spirit of Kate Bush; the result is a feature-length identity crisis, or perhaps, identity revelation into the parts of oneself found through attempting to become someone/something else. With additional set design and filmography by a.r. havel, The Kate Bush Factor is a fantastical exploration into the possibilities that unfold through leaning into, as Bush puts so eloquently, the “mm…yes!”

Bed Bits is a clonky ponky pop band that worships at the altar of Paul McCartney but sounds like Syd Barrett and 80s top 100.

Petite Garçon is a freek twee band in the tradition of Beat Happening, with occasional flute and theatrical dance asides. We play electric rock instruments and drums in both outfits.