Upcoming Events

Summer Workshop

Join The Seldoms for five mid-summer mornings – train with the company and experience the physically risky and idiosyncratic dance vocabulary of our most recent works on stage. For intermediate to advanced dancers.

Daily technique classes with Carrie Hanson emphasize using weight to achieve momentum and distilling form through spatial clarity and activation. Emerging from improbable impulses, the movement material alternately generates and disrupts flow. Carrie's influences include Laban Movement Analysis and Bartenieff Fundamentals, yoga, and release-based techniques

Daily repertory sessions with Carrie Hanson and company members. Learn excerpts of The Seldoms' rep, including material from Monument (2008).

To register, please contact us at (312) 328-0303 or c.hanson@theseldoms.org

About Dance: Whiff of Anarchy preview

Darrell Jones is one of The Seldoms' guest choreographers for our 2008-09 Season. His new commissioned work, Whiff of Anarchy, will premiere along with Liz Burritt's Triggers at the Dance Center of Columbia College in February 2009. Join us for an early glimpse of this exciting new work at an informal showing and conversation with Darrell and the company.

Whiff of Anarchy is a piece about the collisions and consensus of people, cultures and ideologies. The piece attempts to break from the traditional ideology of riot as an ethnic male phenomenon and investigate physically this unrestrained energy from a multitude of vantage points. An embodiment of protest, riot will be explored as an ephemeral underground movement culture with its own set of rules, protocols and individual and collective improvisations.

Other Dance Festival

The Other Dance Festival was founded in 2002. Held every fall for 3 weeks, this concert series presents sixteen of Chicago's finest modern dance artists and companies.

Festival Information

Thursdays and Fridays, 7:30pm
September 18-19, 25-26, and October 2-3, 2008
Hamlin Park Fieldhouse Theater
3035 N. Hoyne, Chicago, IL

Tickets: $15, $12 (students/seniors), $35 Fest Pass

Buy tickets online at BrownPaperTickets.com or call Brown Paper Tickets at 1.800.838.3006

CONVERGENCE

movement + architecture + media
site = massive vacant garage

TWO NIGHTS ONLY!

Convergence is a multi-disciplinary event featuring choreographed episodes that interact with a suite of four architectural installations through interactive media technology. Movement of both performers and the audience are digitally captured, translated into an organic representation and then transferred onto architectural surfaces and enclosures.

Four architectural situations are presented – Position, Enclosure, Proximity and Compression. The dance language will reveal the body's capacity to interact within these dynamic environments and its ability to affect and inscribe space – experienced as a series of amplified and virtuosic physical dialogues with the various constructions throughout the garage.

Convergence intends to reveal the potential of our spatial condition as a more reciprocal relationship, one that allows us to influence our surroundings more directly, emotionally and aesthetically.

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