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SCDT's HATCHERY PRESENTS: 
LANDSLIDE

Friday June 14 at 7 PM
Saturday June 15 at 2PM and 7 PM


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THE SCHOOL FOR CONTEMPORARY DANCE & THOUGHT PRESENTS:
The Hatchery young artist project in:

LANDSLIDE
FEATURING THREE PERFORMANCE EVENTS at the A.P.E. WORKROOM THEATER
"teens who think on their feet" hampshire gazette

CELEBRATING and SPOTLIGHTING the inspiring and essential voices of
our TEENS
DANCE- MUSIC- THEATER- VIDEO
LIVE ART LIVE ART LIVE ART LIVE ART
Together- we create something greater than ourselves


WHAT?
HATCHERY presents:
 LANDSLIDE 

New works by HATCHERY dancers and pit band, featuring guest artists: Katherine Kain, Em Papineau/Sofia Engelman/Lindsay Jennings, Joya Powell

WHERE?
In A.P.E.’s Workroom Theater, 33 Hawley Street, Northampton

WHEN?
FRIDAY June 14th at 7:00 PM
​SATURDAY June 15th at 2:00 PM and 7:00 PM


TICKETS HERE!


EM PAPINEU/SOFIA ENGELMAN/LINDSAY JENNINGS
www.engelmanpapineaudance.com/works
https://www.lindseyjennings.com/

EM PAPINEAU + SOFIA ENGELMAN are life partners, organizers, independent artists, and choreographic collaborators living and working primarily in Lenapehoking // Brooklyn, NY. Our current focuses are structural transparency (in performance and institutions alike), accessibility, queering, relationality, and community care.

LINDSAY JENNINGS
is a dance-artist, teacher, collage-maker, and performer based in Lenapehoking (Brooklyn, NY). Rigorous movement tasks, labor, and material forms have been a constant in her body and life, now evidenced in her performance, image, and choreographic work. She is originally from the lands of the Kickapoo, Peoria, and Kaskaskia people, where she attended the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and received her BFA in Dance in 2020 and was awarded scholarships for outstanding performance and research


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JOYA POWELL
A multiethnic Harlemite, Joya Powell is a Bessie Award winning Choreographer and Educator passionate about community, activism, and dances of the African Diaspora. Hailed by The New York Times as a “radiant performer,” throughout her career she has danced with choreographers such as Paloma McGregor, Katiti King, Nicole Stanton, Neta Pulvermacher, and Mar Parrilla. In 2005 Joya founded Movement of the People Dance Company, dedicated to addressing sociocultural injustices through multidisciplinary Afrofuturist immersive contemporary dance. Her work has appeared in venues such as: BAM, Lincoln Center, SummerStage, La Mama, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, The Dance Complex (Cambridge), Mudlark Theater (New Orleans), Movement Research @ Judson Church, The School of Contemporary Dance & Thought (Northampton), York Univeristy (Toronto), Amnesty International's Human Rights Art Festival/Maryland and NYC, Symphony Space, The 92nd St Y, Gibney Dance: Agnes Varis Performing Arts Center, The Southern Vermont Dance Festival, Center for Performance Research, Dixon Place, The Riverside Theatre, The Casa del Prado Theatre (San Diego), Hammerstein Ballroom, BAAD! among others. Site-responsive performances have included: Dance on the Greenway (commission), chashama/Anita’s Way, INSITU Dance Festival, White Wave's DUMBO Dance Festival, FIGMENT Arts Festival, ChEck Us OuT Dance Festival, and The Outlet Dance Project at the Grounds for Sculpture (New Jersey).  Over the course of her career, she has facilitated workshops at various colleges and universities nationwide, shelters, elder care facilities and K-12 schools throughout NYC and primarily the South Bronx. Her research revolves around art as activism, decolonizing dance, performative rituals, the Africanist presence in contemporary dance practices, and “race” relations in the “Americas”.
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Katherine Kain
Originally from Salt Lake City, Utah, Katherine Kain (she/they) is a choreographer and dancer based in western Massachusetts. She grew up dancing at South Valley Creative Dance and received subsequent training from Repertory Dance Theatre and Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company. They have also trained extensively at Bates Dance Festival, Salt Dance Fest, FRESH Festival, and the Practicing Presence Festival. Katherine’s work has been presented at the American College Dance Association conference, the Josten Library for the Performing Arts, and the School for Contemporary Dance and Thought. They have performed in works by Paul Matteson, Dante Brown, and Doug Varone. Most recently, she was dancing with Shakia “The Key” Barron and Barbie Diewald in their project, “Concourse,” which has been in residence at Jacob’s Pillow, High Street Studios, MAGMA, and Bates Dance Festival. Katherine graduated magna cum laude with a BA in Dance from Mount Holyoke College. They also spent this past year developing their teaching practice at The Children’s Ballet and Movement Co. and are excited to join the faculty at SCDT this spring.
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HATCHERY PIT BAND
​
 is HATCHERY’s Sound, Music & Video focused program. It is a working playground where young artists (11-18) of all skill levels work in creative collaboration with dancers, choreographers, and visiting artists. Musicians craft music and sound together as a live band. In a process similar to scoring music for film, they workshop original sound accompaniments for HATCHERY dance pieces through improvisational explorations on a variety of acoustic and electronic instruments, accommodating both traditional and nontraditional approaches. They also build selections of musical material to showcase their interests and creative voices, interpret songs and jazz standards, and work creatively with sound in live and recorded environments. Students are exposed to audio engineering skills (mixing live sound, effect processing, and basic recording) and philosophies of expressive artmaking and live performing, with a focus on the collaborative skills and flexibility to adapt to what each moment brings. Video works are also explored, adding a dynamic visual element to performance pieces with projected video and incorporating the elements of film scoring.

HATCHERY COMPANY MEMBERS

Arin Andrews
Irina Andrews
Tovah Boucher
Morgan Brown McNeil
Yelena Caldanaro
Sophie Calkins
Cara Casey
Milo Forrest
Dayal Fuller
Jaime deVelder
Camille Dziura
Serena Gross
Andrew Jones-Monahan
Audrey Patterson
Niko Reilly
Ascher Savage
Edy Savage
Alaya Smith
Maisie Tuck
Summit Wicks-Lim
Rain Jewett
Pfieffer
Irina Andrews
Anika Theis

Check out LABYRINTH featured in the Daily Hampshire Gazette!
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ABOUT US:
We are a company of 21 pre-professional performing artists, joining together to create performance art for all ages and inspire our communities!

Hatchery is more than a company, it’s a family and a safe, dynamic environment where teens experience what it’s like to be part of an inclusive performing arts community.
​SCDT’s Hatchery Dance Company is an experimental movement based performance company for young artists ages 13-18. Unique in the Pioneer Valley, Hatchery offers training in contemporary dance forms such as Modern, Improvisation, Contemporary Ballet, African Diaspora forms, Composition and Dance Production. Hatchery offers opportunities for teens to work closely with internationally acclaimed guest artists to create choreographic works or simply to take class.

Hatchery is a good fit for you if you love to dance, move, create, and perform in a non-traditional and non-competitive environment.
​Hatchery accommodates young artists at a range of levels, where creativity, curiosity and enthusiasm is central, and company members become articulate, dynamic and skilled performers and directors. Hatchery’s training program aims to cultivate personal artistic growth, while striving for excellence in the arts. Under the direction of Jennifer Polins and Kate Martel, Hatchery members receive mentorship from experts in the field to create dynamic, inspiring performances for the Pioneer Valley and beyond.

Hatchery performs biannually, has shared work at Jacob’s Pillow, and partners with several youth companies including One Earth Dance/Drum Co (Amherst, MA), First Generation (Holyoke, MA), and Portland Youth Dance(Portland, ME).

Hatchery was founded in 2015, in recognition of the need to provide intermediate and advanced level young dancers and performance artists with opportunity for performance without competition. Teen artists are offered opportunities in diverse styles of dance and performance art that challenge their abilities, while inviting their own creative process to emerge. It is our commitment to recognize that each young artist brings their own unique artistic integrity to the company. Each artist not only feels valued, but is valued.

​Ever wonder what it's like to be in Hatchery?
Hear from former and current Hatchery members and families!
HATCHERY TESTIMONIALS


Questions?
Email us at [email protected]. 
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