HATCH: emerging performance projects

Are you ready to HATCH?

HATCH: emerging performance projects is your chance to encounter the most original new voices this city has to offer, to engage in artistic exploration and to support artists in their creative development.

The 2010 HATCH season showcases five presentations from hot up-and-comers on the Canadian performing arts landscape. HATCH is unpredictable, fresh and vital to the future of contemporary performance.

Come witness the birth of these raw, vulnerable and inventive performances on the verge, and invest in their development. Become an integral part of these exciting and bold experiences.

Come out of your shell. Support HATCH.

All performances take place in the Studio Theatre, York Quay Centre, 235 Queens Quay West.

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Everything I've GotEverything I've Got Jess Dobkin Sunday January 31, 2010, 4pmStudio Theatre Jess Dobkin offers her newest performance art piece in progress − a raw and intimate examination of creativity and mortality where the artist offers up the entirety of her collection of artistic ideas. Details
Body CartographyBody Cartography Alicia Grant and Cara Spooner February 25 & 27, 2010, 8pm
Studio Theatre Created in collaboration with visual artist Simon Rabyniuk, as well as urban theorist Alex Marques, Body Cartography emphasizes and distorts the idea of a city within a city. A performance that mixes disparate details of balancing on rooftops, walking home alone at night, raiding secret swimming pools and feeling too close to strangers – employing installation, dance and question and answer periods.
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All I Ever WantedSection 98 Praxis Theatre March 13, 2010, 8pmStudio TheatreThe award-winning indie theatre company behind Stranger, Dyad, Steel and The Master and Margarita presents an open-sourced, interactive, work-in-progress that uses performance and technology to explore and debate individual and civil rights in Canada. The production invites you to participate with your cell phone or PDA during the presentation, and online before or after the performance at praxistheatre.com. Details
The Physical Ramifications of Attempted Global DominationThe Physical Ramifications of Attempted Global Domination Birdtown and Swanville April 17, 2010, 8pm
April 18, 2010, 2:30pm
Studio Theatre This play explores the mysterious and bountiful medical ailments suffered by many of history’s most aggressive dictators. With animal balloons, clogged intestinal tracts and power-hungry autocrats, this investigation uses debate, dance and melodrama to understand the consequences that the perpetration of mass violence creates. The group recently made waves with their 2009 Fringe hit, 36 Little Plays About Hopeless Girls.
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Red Machine: Under the KnifeRed Machine: Under the Knife The Room April 24, 2010, 8pm
April 25, 2010, 4pm
Studio Theatre From this newly formed theatre company that NOW called the "indie theatre version of Broken Social Scene" comes Red Machine: Under the Knife – the latest phase of their continuing work-in-progress. A theatrical journey into the meat of the human mind, The Room presents four abstractions of a single event as interpreted by four distinct physical areas of the brain. Be prepared for a virtual dissection, revealing how movement, sight, sound and ecstasy can each have their own story to tell.
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