Harbourfront Centre Ends Run of HATCH: Emerging Performance Projects April 25

Harbourfront Centre ends run of HATCH: emerging performance projects 2010 Apr. 25 at York Quay Centre.The mentorship from Harbourfront Centre is available to HATCH artists from September 2009 through May 2010. Five projects were selected from 56 submitted proposals to participate in HATCH for 2010, demonstrating the crucial role the programme plays for Toronto's ever-burgeoning performance community.

HATCH is an excellent opportunity for both nascent artists and those who have presented works previously to develop a project through its crucial stages. Audiences have the opportunity to be the first to view these works in their initial stages and to be a part of the continuing development of the project, and the artists involved, through their participation and feedback.

Tickets: $12 or $10 for Students/Seniors/Arts Workers. For information and tickets, the public can call 416-973-4000 or visit www.harbourfrontcentre.com/hatch .

Week of Jan. 25-31 -- Everything I've Got by Jess Dobkin - A multidisciplinary solo performance where the artist offers a collection of her creative ideas in an intimate and playful examination of artistic process and mortality. A staging of her own eulogy, designed to stand as a record of her thoughts and ideas for performance in case she doesn't live long enough to realize them. Created in collaboration with BrenDan Healy , Sherri Hay and Richard Feren.

Week of Feb. 22-28 -- Body Cartography by Alicia Grant and Cara Spooner - A dance performance by Alicia Grant and Cara Spooner, created in collaboration with visual artists Laura McCoy and Simon Rabyniuk as well as urban theorist Alex Marques they will experiment with concept of the city as a score. Inspired by methods of mapping; the body as a landscape, drifting, taking back alleys rather than bridges, connections between personal memories and place, the choice of where to sit on the bus, how it feels standing close to strangers and the notion of a city within a city within a city.

Mar. 13, 8pm -- Section 98 - Praxis Theatre - The 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 the audience to participate in the production with their cell phones or PDAs during the presentation, and online before or after the show .

Apr. 17, 8pm & Apr. 18, 2:30pm -- The Physical Ramifications of Attempted Global Domination - Birdtown and Swanville -- This play explores the mysterious and bountiful medical ailments suffered by many of history's most aggressive dictators. With balloon animals, 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.

Apr. 24, 8pm & Apr. 25, 4pm -- Red Machine: Under the Knife - The Room - From this newly formed theatre company that NOW Magazine 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.

For more information, visit http://harbourfrontcentre.com/hatch/

Harbourfront Centre  is located at York Quay Centre 235 Queens Quay West in Toronto.

 

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