Upcoming Events
January 8-12, 2010
In NYC at APAP (Association of Performing Arts Presenters Conference)
Visit us at Booth 211, Rhinelander Hall
Association of Performing Arts Presenters Conference
Artistic Director Carrie Hanson, Assistant Director Christina Gonzalez-Gillett, company member Paige Cunningham and Board member Ligia Himebaugh will attend APAP 2010.
See The Seldoms Showcase! on Sunday, January 10 at 2:45-4:25pm.
The Seldoms perform Thrift – a dance work about economy – from 4:15-4:25pm within the JK&A/Booking Dance Guest Artist Showcase, Ailey Citigroup Theater, 405 W. 55th St (at 9th Ave).
January 14-23, 2010
Krasnoyarsk, Russia
Carrie Hanson travels to Krasnoyarsk, Russia!
Artistic Director Carrie Hanson will spend eight days in Krasnoyarsk, Russia for the first stage of The Seldoms' Russia Exchange 2010. She will be choreographing on Elena Slobodchikova's dance company, creating a new section of Marchland. The Russian dancers will then join The Seldoms onstage at the New Stage Theater when we present Marchland in May during the "Isadora" Festival of Modern Dance.
The Seldoms' Russia Exchange 2010 is generously supported by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.
March 12-13, 2010 at 7:30 pm
March 14, 2010 at 3pm
Musuem of Contemporary Art
220 E. Chicago
Cost: $25 ($20 MCA Members)
MCA Box Office: 312.397.4010
www.mcachicago.org/performances
The Seldoms at The MCA
Marchland
Our major project for the 2009-2010 season, Marchland is a new collaboration with visual artist Fraser Taylor. and an exceptional team of sound, garment and visual artists.
The Seldoms' Artistic Director Carrie Hanson was inspired by Taylor's video, CREVICE, a frenetic animation and sound piece that he created by making minute drawings directly onto the surface of clear 16mm film, later capturing the projected film with digital video.
Stemming from the act of mark-making, Marchland considers issues of endurance, border/boundary and contested spaces. The evening-length work bursts forward with idiosyncratic and charged movement, mimicking the same flickering, erratic, and relentless qualities of Taylor's video.
Marchland Artists
- Choreography & Direction: Carrie Hanson
- Additional Direction: Doug Stapleton
- Animation & Set Design: Fraser Taylor
- Set Design: Joel Huffman
- Video & Sound Design: Nick O'Brien
- Percussion/Sound Design: Tim Daisy
- Lighting Design: Julie Ballard
- Performance: Paige Cunningham, Philip Elson, Christina Gonzalez-Gillett, Damon Green, Amanda McAlister, Bruce Ortiz, Cara Sabin, Trevor Szuba-Schneider
Saturday, March 13, 2010
post-performance
Tickets: $50 and $75
(includes admission to performance)
Afterparty Benefit
Special Event!
Please join The Seldoms to celebrate our debut at the MCA and help send us off on our first international trip to Russia! The Afterparty Benefit at the MCA gives us a chance to meet and thank our audience, and you a chance to meet us offstage and support our work! Includes food and cocktails, live music and festivity.
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The Seldoms Abroad
A program of The Seldoms 2010 Russia Exchange
In April 2010, The Seldoms will travel to Krasnoyarsk, Russia to teach, choreograph and perform at the "Isadora" International Festival of Modern Dance. The company will perform Marchland, and will be joined on stage by Russian dancers from the festival's resident dance company.
Please support our first international performances and send us To Russia With Love!
May 28, 2010
Touhill Performing Arts Center, Lee Theater
St. Louis, MO
Spring to Dance Festival
The Seldoms return to this exciting three-day regional festival to perform Thrift (2009) – a duet about economy in which effort and yield are points of interest, and the examination ranges from the economy-at-large to the economy of a single gesture.
July 19-30, 2010
Monday-Friday
9:30-11:15am Technique Class
11:45-3:00pm Performance Workshop
Pilsen East Arts Center
1945 S. Halsted, 4th Floor
Cost: $380 – Full workshop including technique and performance workshop
Technique Classes:
$15 – Single class
$70 – Five classes
$130 – Ten classes
Performance Workshop:
$150 – One week
$275 – Both weeks
The Seldoms 2010 Summer Intensive
A program of The Seldoms 2010 Russia Exchange
Morning Contemporary Technique Classes
Classes taught by master teachers: Artistic Director Carrie Hanson, Assistant Director Christina Gonzalez-Gillett, company member Paige Cunningham, and guest Elena Slobodchikova.
Afternoon Performance Workshops
New choreography is created on workshop participants in a fast and packed five-day creative process! The Performance Workshop culminates with an informal showing on Friday, July 30.
Week 1: The Seldoms company member and former dancer with Merce Cunningham, Paige Cunningham.
Week 2: From Russia, a very special guest teacher & choreographer – Elena Slobodchikova, Director of the "Isadora" International Festival of Modern Dance in Krasnoyarsk, Russia.