Harbourfront Centre is currently seeking proposals from Toronto-area artists and companies working in the field of performance for HATCH: emerging performance projects for the 2009/2010 series.
DEADLINE: 3 JULY 2009
HATCH is designed to incubate and foster invention and innovation in the local performance scene. Entering its seventh year, this programme has become an important element in the ecology of local performance development. The HATCH residency and mentorship programme provides resources and professional assistance to a new generation of engaging and innovative contemporary artists to reach the next stage in the development in their work and careers.
Companies selected to participate in HATCH: emerging performance projects receive a one-week residency in the Studio Theatre, an intimate 196-seat proscenium venue featuring a full lighting grid, raked seating and sprung stage floor. Use of the residency period is at the discretion of the artist and needs of the project (i.e. workshop, rehearsals, performance, etc.) but there must be at least one public presentation of the work at some point in the week.
We are seeking artists committed to the development of contemporary, inventive and creative performance-based work. Harbourfront Centre invites projects from emerging creators as well as established artists engaging in new collaborations or entering into new artistic territory. We encourage performance proposals from artists working across all disciplines, including, but not limited to, dance, theatre, performance art, music, etc. Of particular interest are proposals that can demonstrate how HATCH will benefit the project or the artist during this stage of development.
"I was thinking the other day what sort of world we would be living in if Edison had to scrounge for a few hours of laboratory time by working as a server at the Pickle Barrel. Great discoveries, regardless of the discipline, are fostered by what HATCH: emerging performance projects provided me this past March: a space in which radical ideas are not only encouraged but are given time and resources to be made tangible. Where risk-taking is not the exception but rather the modus operendi. From the moment Suburban Beast was invited to participate, the hardworking members of Harbourfront's HATCH team, from box office staff to publicity to our theatre technicians, worked as a well-oiled machine to ensure no idea of ours was too impossible to explore. There is little doubt in my mind that HATCH: emerging performance projects has established itself, and will continue to establish itself, as one of Toronto's most vital laboratories for new performance. At least it certainly turned on some light bulbs for me."
— Jordan Tannahill, Suburban Beast
Takes Two Men To Make A Brother
HATCH 08-09
"There are few opportunities in this city that give emerging artists and performers a chance to get together with their collaborators and just create. The fact that this happens in a fully equipped theatre with expert staff able to assist with everything from press releases to technical questions makes it an amazing opportunity for any company. Even just being associated with the Harbourfront Centre has opened up doors for our company."
— Erin Brandenburg, Kitchen Band Productions
Petrichor
HATCH 08-09
For more information on this year's series of projects, or on how to be a part of HATCH in the future, please contact Laura Nanni at 416.952.7969 or by email.
