How to Cultivate Your REM Cycle

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.

Conceived by Helen Hatch with text by Jon Ferguson

Created collaboratively

Performances by Artemis Brown and Joe Tennis, with Juliana Johnson, Connor Simone, and Emily Trapnell

Live original music by Joe Strachan with Seth Conover

Projections by Andrew Hatling

Costumes by Jenny Hawkins-Hatch

Lighting design by Karin Olson

Enter a world of soft attention and sudden interruption.
Where nothing stays still for long.
Where meaning arrives sideways.

March 26-29th, 2026

at The Southern Theater

Minneapolis

Thursday, March 26th at 7:30pm

Friday, March 27th at 7:30pm*

Saturday, March 28th and 2:00 and 7:30pm

Sunday, March 29th at 2:00pm

*Post-performance talk back

$40 General Admission

$25 Students

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