Germaine Mancke
Founding Artistic Director
In 2002, Germaine Mancke wrote and received a grant from the Five County Arts Fund, a program of the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. The funding helped launch free modern dance classes and performances for children and teens in the Philadelphia area which would later become HATCH Dance Theater.
Germaine Mancke received her Master of Fine Arts in Dance from Temple University in Philadelphia, PA. Germaine currently teaches dance in a credited program she founded in 1991 at Delaware Valley College in Bucks County, PA. Over the past 10 years, she held positions as Dance Department Head and instructor at Abington Art Center in Jenkintown, PA and Adjunct Faculty at the James A. Michener Art Museum in Doylestown, PA. While at Abington Art Center, Germaine started a summer internship program for emerging dance artists that gave the dancer a teaching schedule, studio time to create a new work and a performance. Germaine based the teacher training component on her curriculum Art Moves! which connects visual art elements and dance.
Her work as an independent choreographer has been seen in Philadelphia at the Painted Bride, the Community Education Center, Group Motion Theater and Conwell Dance Theater. Germaine’s choreography as part of Germaine Mancke Dance Company has also been seen on Suburban Community Television’s summer concert series, “Brown Bag It With The Arts.”
In the summer of 2005, Germaine taught modern dance, improvisation and choreography in Surrey, England at TASIS, the American School in Switzerland. She sings with Anna Crusis Women’s Choir in Philadelphia. As an independent performer, she danced and sang in 2006 neW Festival in Philadelphia. Most recently, Germaine has performed with Headlong Dance Theater’s First Friday.
Germaine trains and performs with her two rescue dogs, Luke Lake, a Husky mix and Miracle, a Collie mix in Freestyle (dog dancing).