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 HATCH is...a performance company, school and outreach program. We connect movement with the visual arts; storytelling, poetry and literature; and architecture. We explore site-specific choreography, improvisation and youth-centered ideas. Germaine Mancke is the force behind this innovative approach to children's dance, which taps into the rich learning possibilities present in kinesthetic, full-bodied experiences. Hatch is... a professional-minded youth performance company directed by Germaine Mancke. Company members are comfortable with improvisation and alternative performance spaces such as museum galleries, sculpture gardens, sidewalks and warehouses. Hatch the Company’s repertory includes “Shapes in 5 on 7” a dance based on the paintings of Kandinsky in which the performers use line, shape and color.  “To Build” is an architectural dance based on the concepts of design, construction, foundation, negative space and deconstruction. “Hatch is…” a structured improvisation based on the Webster’s New Collegiate Dictionary definitions of the word Hatch, for which we are named. Hatch has performed with Headlong Dance Theater's CELL at 2006 Philadelphia Live Arts Festival and with Vox Ama Deau's Dido and Aeneas at the Kimmel Center. In May 2008, we will present Dance Stories in the Everglades a concert testing how performers can be more green in their presentation. Hatch will dance outdoors, using no electricity and wearing recycled costumes. Hatch is...  a school that offers a full range of classes with an emphasis on teaching children how to take ownership of their creative process. Our curriculum is designed to appeal to both boys and girls.
Hatch is... an after school program Hatch is...  an internship program  Hatch is... a student teacher program  Hatch is... Liza Clark Teacher Liza Clark holds a BA from Swarthmore College in Dance & English. She is a founding director of Mascher Dance Group and Space Co-op, which provides a supportive home for Philadelphia-based movement artists to develop and perform their work. She teaches creative drama and movement as part of the Jenks Elementary School @ HATCH Afterschool Program.
Megan Mancke Megan Mancke has been student teaching with Germaine for 6 years. She is part of a year long Teacher Training Program for young dancers with an interest in pursuing a career in dance education. Megan assists in classes at Hatch and with Jenks afterschool. Megan is a member of Hatch the performance company and has choreographed a dance for the opening of Live Arts/Fringe Festival Rocky Awards. Megan recently danced at the Kimmel Center and with Headlong Dance Theater's First Friday in Phildelphia. She currently is planning a Hatch performance at Youth in the Loop, a benefit for Lupus.  |
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