The Seldoms 10YRS opens with a unique roaming performance at the Harris Theater for Music and Dance. In this hour-long, site-inspired dance and live music event, you won’t be asked to take your seat. You will be asked to follow us… through the lobbies, into the house, backstage, and even on stage! This performance really MOVES. In This Is Not A Dance Concert, all areas of the building are potential sites for action and inspiration, not excluding the restrooms and freight elevator. This Is Not A Dance Concert plays inside the variously private, public, pedestrian, technical and performance spaces and the whole set of manners, expectations, complaints, regrets, hopes and anxieties that play out there.

For the occasion, The Seldoms have brought together an incredible ensemble of twelve dancers who will be joined by twelve superb musicians from Chicago’s new music scene. With new choreography by Artistic Director Carrie Hanson, original music by percussionist / composer Tim Daisy (our super talented collaborator from Marchland), and costume by celebrated designer Maria Pinto.

This Is Not A Dance Concert is supported in part by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Rental Subsidy Program at the Harris Theater.