Hatch And Scratch

Hatch and Scratch is your chance to see the freshest new dance and offer feedback directly to the people making it. You’ll see three works at various stages of development and after each, have an opportunity to discuss them with their creators.

Living is Dancing by Justine Reeve and Company explores the desire that dancers have for finding performance work, voyeuristically watching three dancers trapped in the audition process. This is a wry, honest and eccentric look at what it is really like to be a professional dancer.

Los Ojos de Nono looks at the relationship one has with past and present, savouring the imprints that remain. Choreographed by award-winning dancers and choreographers Thomasin Gülgeç and Estela Merlos and performed by Merlos, this is a part-improvised feast of emotive and athletic movement.

The final work will be from the 2017 Grad-Lab cohort. Grad-Lab offers recent dance graduates support, space and a cast with which to choreograph their first professional work, as well as work placement experience to a graduate interested in dance administration.