Oct 15, 2026 · 16 min · 10 segments
We cross age gaps with a new and innovative dance production in Northampton. Across the Generations blends the pre-professional company The Hatchery of the School for Contemporary Dance and Thought…
Monte BelmonteHostDesmond CampbellGuest
Kaliis SmithHostEpisode HostHostFor the Hatchery, they've done kind of a musical.
They've done individual choreography.
Are there different things that they or you had to consider going into this project, working with older folks, whether they would be a part of the choreography, what part of the stories would be good to connect with a younger generation of people?
Yeah, I mean, I listened to probably about f- 50 stories, right, and talked with my collaborators from Amherst, uh, from, from UMass and from Northampton neighbors around.
Listen to this one." Um, and there were certain ones, like Bob's story about being a teenager and feeling isolated, and then finding comedy, and then finding art, and that affected his whole life, and kids know him.
It's like, what, where else can you find home in the world? What does home actually mean? So that one felt really good.
And there's another one about s- a, a wild adventure in someone's early 20s that led them into opening a store in the '70s in Northampton.
Mm-hmm.
Um, so I definitely was looking for the stories that would connect more to these young people.
Um, we have worked with the Young at Heart Chorus, so they have, some of them have experience, a little bit, with even more, like, dancing and interaction with older folks.
Mm-hmm
Yeah, because it would be great to see, like, more actual in-human interactions.
... inferring at the beginning, like sitting across the table from the gen- generations and working things out together-
For the Hatchery, they've done kind of a musical.
They've done individual choreography.
Are there different things that they or you had to consider going into this project, working with older folks, whether they would be a part of the choreography, what part of the stories would be good to connect with a younger generation of people?
Yeah, I mean, I listened to probably about f- 50 stories, right, and talked with my collaborators from Amherst, uh, from, from UMass and from Northampton neighbors around.
Listen to this one." Um, and there were certain ones, like Bob's story about being a teenager and feeling isolated, and then finding comedy, and then finding art, and that affected his whole life, and kids know him.
It's like, what, where else can you find home in the world? What does home actually mean? So that one felt really good.
And there's another one about s- a, a wild adventure in someone's early 20s that led them into opening a store in the '70s in Northampton.
Mm-hmm.
Um, so I definitely was looking for the stories that would connect more to these young people.
Um, we have worked with the Young at Heart Chorus, so they have, some of them have experience, a little bit, with even more, like, dancing and interaction with older folks.
Mm-hmm
Yeah, because it would be great to see, like, more actual in-human interactions.
... inferring at the beginning, like sitting across the table from the gen- generations and working things out together-
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