Hatch Dance
How to Cultivate Your REM Cycle
Performance Dates
Thursday, March 26th at 7:30pm (Doors: 6:30pm, House Open: 7:00pm)
Friday, March 27th at 7:30pm (Doors: 6:30pm, House Open: 7:00pm)*
Saturday, March 28th at 2:00pm (Doors: 1:00pm, House Open: 1:30pm)
Saturday, March 28th at 7:30pm (Doors: 6:30pm, House Open: 7:00pm)
Sunday, March 29th at 2:00pm (Doors: 1:00pm, House Open: 1:30pm)
*Post-show discussion to follow performance
Performance Length
Approximately 75 minutes with a 15 minute intermission
Hatch Dance returns to the Southern Theater with the world premiere of How to Cultivate Your REM Cycle, a haunting and imaginative performance exploring the fragile boundary between sleep and waking life.
Blending dance, theater, live music, text, and projection, the work follows The Sleeper and The Dreamer through disrupted nights, looping thoughts, and the strange inner landscapes. As dreams fracture and time slips, the piece asks what happens when rest becomes impossible — and what we lose when we stop dreaming.
Choreographed by Helen Hatch with text by Jon Ferguson, How to Cultivate Your REM Cycle features performances by Artemis Brown and Joe Tennis, with Juliana Johnson and Emily Trapnell, and live original music by Joe Strachan with Seth Conover.
Enter a world of soft attention and sudden interruption.
Enter a world of soft attention and sudden interruption.
Where nothing stays still for long.
Where meaning arrives sideways.