Hatch return to Embrace Arts to present an evening of new works in progress from across the country.  The performances will be presented as double bills,  interspersed with conversations between the artists and the opportunity for the audience to feedback.  Join us and help shaping the work of tomorrow!

Mufaro Makubika & Ollie Smith
The Review Show

Tonight you are not watching a play.
Whatever you do, do not say, “play”.
Nobody is playing.
This is f*cking real, man.
This is reality.
Sort of.

“Makubika smoulders silently, a potent cocktail of pensive eyes and razorwire intellect”
Ollie Smith

“Smith’s performance is lacklustre at best”
Mufaro Makubika

Hunt & Darton
BOREDOM

image by Christa Holka

Hunt & Darton are back in the studio developing a new performance about boredom. Hunt & Darton thought they would never get bored, so they tried to get bored, got bored then got excited. The performance presents this journey. There will be more moves, poems, ‘you do it’ bits, leopard skin and definitely leggings. They are the opposite of bored about this.

Louise Orwin
Am I Pretty/Ugly?

‘This show is about you rating me based solely on my looks.
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It is also about a recent worldwide trend of teenage girls posting videos on You Tube asking viewers to rate their looks, and about my trail of research into the world of the teenage social networker in 2013 to try and understand why.’

Sara Cocker & Nicki Hobday
Age Concerns

image by Roshana Rubin-Mayhew

We have both worked with older people separately and together. We have both made shows separately. Now we’re making a show together inspired by working with older people. We want to share the conversations we’ve had and the dances we’ve learnt with you because memories live longer than dreams. That’s what Hilda told us anyway.

Raul Calderon
From my heart

image by Tad Mielech

I invite you to think for a short moment about, time, what is it? ………Now think again.
What is life?. What is death?. What is eternity?….
Now think again………..
This work in progress is about the exploration of rhythms, the rhythms of life, it is also about some memories that are very close to my heart.

70/30 Split
Two do: A performance

All the way over from York 70/30 Split present us with a candid look into the relationship between a duo.  Can two people share the spotlight?

We are two women, with two of everything; two people, two bodies, two voices,two minds, two ways, two paths, two loves, two gains, two unrelated stories,two alternatives, two gether.

Wolf Close
It’s going to rain.

We explore the lives and deaths of trees and humans. Using vigorous physical exercise, extracts from novels and experiences from family life we thoughtfully create moving, invigorating shared moments. Celebrating togetherness and attempting to comprehend mortality through the words of our children and the trees that have become our notebook.

Drunken Chorus
Just Like Larry Walters

Sheena is blowing up balloons. She wants there to be a party. She wants everybody to dance.
Chris wants us to slow down. He wants us to take a balloon each, and float up high over the city… over deserts, over jungles, over mountains… just like Larry.

Looking forward to seeing you in Leicester!

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From February 2013 Hatch is becoming a member of Live Art UK – a consortium of venues, promoters and facilitators who collectively represent a range of practices and are concerned with all aspects of the development and promotion of the Live Art sector. Live Art UK brings together key promoters and facilitators to support and develop the Live Art infrastructure for the benefit of artists and audiences.

The Live Art UK network explores new models and partnerships for the promotion of Live Art; develops new ways to increase the national and international visibility of Live Art; initiates strategies for a more sustainable future for Live Art practitioners and promoters; and aims to provide a representative voice for the Live Art Sector in the UK.

Check out their website for news, projects and downloads of publications.

First off Hatch will be presenting a Scratch event showcasing eight new works in progress on Sunday 9 June 2013 in conjunction with circuit festival.

We no longer accept proposals for this event – sorry! Thanks to everybody who has applied, we will be announcing the line-up shortly.

Early outings of ideas that would benefit from exposure to a supportive audience, experimental first steps that fit into the frame of a 20 minute showing, lo-fi trials, beta tests – anything that can broadly be defined as performance or live art is welcome. The rule is: fit your stuff into a suitcase, be able to set it up and clear it away as part of your performance time and be aware that the audience is likely going to be in the space with you when you do so. Eight ideas will be selected and paired into four mini double bills.

We are interested in artists meeting and comparing notes, involving the audience in that discussion. Each double bill will be followed by a conversation between the respective artists, a guest chair and the audience. We hope to stir ideas, provide safe testing ground and encourage direct and constructive feedback. We are not looking for sleek finished or polished pieces but for strong and exciting starting points, interesting first, second and third steps and an openness to share thoughts on process and development of work.

We are offering:

- a supportive environment
- a 20 minute slot (maximum) to test run your work in progress
- a fee of 100GBP for each selected work to contribute to expenses, payable after the event on receipt of invoice
- photographic documentation
- a written response to the showcase by our writer in residence Wayne Burrows (check out his thoughts on previous events at the Hatchback blog)
- collated feedback from the audience
- the facilitation of a conversation with the audience and co-artist/s
- a lovely team there to support you

We can provide a fixed projector/fixed projection screen, a mic and stand, play a soundtrack, and can turn the lights on and off for you – unfortunately we cannot work out individual lighting states or offer other more elaborate technical set up for you due to the nature of this event.

Half an hour get in/rehearsal time in the space from 12 noon on the day can be arranged, subject to individual arrival times and prior agreement.

Deadline for submission is midday on 26 April 2013. If you are interested in applying pop us an e-mail to hatch@hatchnottingham.org.uk and we will send you an application form. We will reply to all applicants in the week following the deadline.

Image at top by Nathalie Babineau-Griffiths,
used under a creative commons license.
Image at middle of Greg Wohead performing The Many Apologies of Pecos Bill
at Hatch Scratch 12, photo by Julian Hughes.

The future of touring and distribution for contemporary theatre and Live Art

A free publication, for download here.

This publication reflects on and responds to Getting It Out There, a one-day symposium exploring the future of touring for contemporary theatre and Live Art. The symposium was originally conceived by Tamsin Drury of hÅb to be developed with greenroom. Following the latter’s closure, it was developed and co-produced with Live at LICA and held in Lancaster on 12 May 2012, bringing together panels of art-form specialists to ask questions about the role of curators, programmers, producers and venues. It considered the wider implications of the structures used to fund, develop and present new work, and emerging models for touring countrywide. Contributors: Mary Paterson, Theron Schmidt, Judith Knight, Claire Marshall, Bryony Kimmings, Kate McGrath, Michael Pinchbeck, Rajni Shah, Sam Trotman, Helen Cole, Thomas Frank, Matt Fenton and Alice Booth.

Publication edited by Mary Paterson and Theron Schmidt
Published by Live at LICA and Live Art UK

This is going to be a party, this is going to be a farewell, this is going to be live, this is for you and everyone who happens to wander in.

Arletty Theatre – Patchwork Lives

We are making a patchwork quilt of lives: memories sewn in to a fabric mass, a remembrance of Nottingham women. Funny or frightening, we share our stories, while making a new material. Making our memories tangible. Join the eccentric “Quilter” in a humorous and celebratory exploration of communal storytelling.

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The Bitchuationist (Ali Matthews) -Eve Speaks

Weren’t fig leaves the original nipple tassels? Join Eve as she presents a kinkier retelling of the Book of Genesis through live music and cabaret stylings. The Serpent’s her lover, Adam is flaccid, and the world is her oyster.

Also: One-to-One Confessionals
How does your apple taste? Book in to a confessional-cum-pillowchat with Eve for a private look at embracing original sin.

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Eggs Collective – Ladies’ Night

Tonight we’re having it, don’t tell us we’ve had enough, we know when we’ve had enough.Tonight we’re going to drag you down to our level and if you think this is art you’re sadly mistaken.Eggs Collective are an all female, Manchester based quartet who make sharp, comic, culturally-observational performance.

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First Floor Theatre – Our Front Room

First Floor Theatre invite you to a party in Our Front Room. Celebrate with us, to mark out the rites of passage and milestones of life, put on headphones to listen to instructions from Granddaddy Archie: listen to wha him seh to do the one foot skank, fall in love and move your body to the beat!

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fourbeatwalk – Print Your Own Christmas Card

fourbeatwalk illustrate in different ways for different reasons. For Hatch:Mass, they are inviting you to send a message from the event: a hand made card, printed and posted in one night.

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Gilda Birch – Gilda Birch

Gilda is an Anglo-swiss artist with an extensive and varied practice.
Gilda will come to Hatch and network whilst followed by satellite entourage who document everything she does. She might be lying. If you meet her again she might seem different. Is she the sum of her parts?

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Harry Giles – Surplus Value: The Game

Surplus Value is a game about economics and lego. Become a profit-hungry capitalist or a rabble-rousing worker in this gleeful econ sim slash theatre game slash revolutionary recruiting session. Harry Giles is  a theatre-maker from Orkney, Scotland, now living in Edinburgh.

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Jasmine Loveys – It’s A Badger Trap


I’ve always had a thing for badgers. And now I’ve rediscovered them. In my dad’s garage. Part show and tell, part documentary, part love story- the only danger is, we don’t know how it’s going to end. As me and the badger slow dance into the night anything could happen…

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Jo Bannon – Exposure

image by Manuel Vason

Exposure is the beginning of an investigation into how we look, how we are looked at and if we can ever really be seen. This intimate one to one performance is a tender and tentative look into autobiography, asking how fully we can reveal ourselves – to ourselves, to another, with another.

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Kitty Graham – Bare Earth

Using a bed of earth – the place of death and decay, as well as creation and growth, and continual transformer of one into the other – this piece explores what might emerge when unconscious contents are freed in liminal ritual, and how these contents may be transformed by contact with consciousness.

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Performance Klub Fiskulturnik – Yugo Yoga

Increase personal flexibility! Reduce social tension! Gain moral strength! Develop inner peace! Join PK Fiskulturnik in a mass Yugo yoga practice!

A desperate tale of slavery and greed told with humour, intimacy and charm using Maison Foo’s inventive visual blend of storytelling, live music, clowning and puppetry.

Following their Hatch residency week in Nottingham, and after development in Derby and Wellingborough, your first chance anywhere to see work from this exciting new project is at the College Street Centre in Nottingham on Friday 30 November at 6pm. Maison Foo will be showing work in progress for the show, and looking for your opinions and feedback to help with their ongoing development of it.

There are limited places available, so if you want to come (and we’d love to see you there), please make sure you book a free ticket using this link: http://maisonfoohatch.eventbrite.co.uk/

For more details please visit Maison Foo’s facebook page or twitter @masionfoo

Open Call For Submissions – NOW CLOSED

To mark the end of this year’s Hatching Space programme, Hatch is thrilled to be staging its first major platform event in Nottingham for two years. On Wednesday 12 December 2012 from 7pm til late, Hatch: Mass will take over Spanky Van Dykes, an eatery and funhouse built on the original site of Nottingham Playhouse. Full of nooks, crannies, grand staircases, screaming violet interiors and curious things in vitrines, this space is waiting to be filled with the most exciting performances we can find.

We are looking for performance/live artists, experimental theatre troupes, site-specific dancers, cabaret artistes and pataphysicians to present work which is likely to succeed but not afraid to fail. We’re particularly interested in performances which teeter on the edge, cross over or fall right into the cracks between disciplines. This is going to be a party, this is going to be a farewell, this is going to be live, this is for you and everyone who happens to wander in.

Roving, durational, one-to-one work, one offs – are all welcome. We are interested in work that riffs of the theme of Mass in any way imaginable and/or that works in interesting ways with its surroundings. We want to remove all fourth walls and encourage you to experiment with new ideas in a supportive and celebratory environment. Equipment, technical support and open space for this event are limited, so work which is lo-fi, technically self-sufficient and takes place amongst the audience is especially welcome, but we will of course do our best to support you in any way possible.

A fee of 250 GBP is available to each selected artist/group to cover expenses.

If you would like an application form or want to ask us anything about the event please mail us at hatch@hatchnottingham.org.uk. Deadline for submissions is midnight, Wednesday 14 November 2012.

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Mass,

n.
1. A grouping of individual parts or elements that compose a unified body of unspecified size or quantity.
2. The principal part; the majority.
3. The physical volume or bulk of a solid body.

adj.
4. Participated in or performed by a large number of people, especially together in a group.
5. Pertaining to, involving, or characteristic of the mass of the people.
6. Done on a large scale or in large quantities.
7. Total; complete.

v.
8. To gather or be gathered into a mass.

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Hatch: Mass is supported by Spanky Van Dykes and supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England.

Hatch has been working on a series of double bills with Broadway’s Media Arts programme, developing brand new performances by East Midlands artists and pairing up their very first work-in-progress showings with the most exciting touring shows by artists from around the country. This pair of double bills features Leicester-based performance maker, actor and writer Olwen Davies with artist, writer, part-time curator, occasional polemicist and co-director of the legendary Forest Fringe, Andy Field.

Olwen will be showing brand new work from her project Inside Neverhood – obsessed with the screen and it’s characters, a little decade confused and very well intentioned, she explores how identities can be constructed in a media saturated world. Meanwhile, in Andy’s Zilla! Part Two – a duet for a single voice and Google Street View – the disaster moves closer to home, describing the city in tantalising detail as it falls apart.

Each half of this double double bill stands alone: If you should miss Part One in October you’ll still be very welcome at this event and able to follow what’s going on.

Meet us for drinks and a chat in the bar afterwards and let us know what you think.

All tickets are £6 and can be booked online through the Broadway website (with no online booking fee!) or by calling   0115 9526 611.

There is a SPECIAL OFFER for tickets for both Part 1 (26 October) and Part 2 (9 November) for £10, available only from the Broadway Box Office in person or by phone.

Part One in a pair of double bills featuring Leicester-based performance maker, actor and writer Olwen Davies alongside artist, writer, part-time curator, occasional polemicist and co-director of the legendary Forest Fringe, Andy Field.

Olwen kicks off her residency at Broadway with a showing of the acclaimed Fridge Logic at 6pm – a troubled attempt to make a movie: with no resources. She isn’t sexy enough, scary enough, entertaining enough. She needs you to believe in her.

Andy Field - Zilla! Part One,  image by Ludovic Des Cognets

Following this at Primary Studios is Andy Field’s Zilla! Part One – the first of an epic three part story of disaster movies and the city, deliriously trying to make sense of the disasters that we dream of and the disasters that we are already living through.

Tickets £6 (including transport from Broadway to Primary)

The second half of this double double bill, with new work by Olwen Davies and Part Two of Zilla! takes place on Friday 9 November at Broadway. We’d love you to see both but if you can only make it to one you’ll still be able to follow what’s happening.

All tickets can be booked online through the Broadway website (with no online booking fee!) or by calling   0115 9526 611.
Book both Hatch Double Bills for £10 by visiting Broadway’s Box Office in person or booking over the phone.

http://www.broadway.org.uk/tags/Art%20&%20Design