Artists

Carrie Hanson has been performing, teaching and making dance in Chicago for fifteen years. Her solo and ensemble dance work has appeared at local festivals and theatres, and has been performed nationally and in Germany. In 1999, Ms. Hanson created a new ballet for the National Theatre of Mannheim, Germany. Since forming The Seldoms in 2001, she has directed and choreographed eleven new works for the company. In 2002, her dance video, Refuge, appeared at the American Dance Festival's Dancing for the Camera.

Ms. Hanson has received two Illinois Arts Council Fellowships for Choreography and a Ruth Page Award for Outstanding Dance for her performance with Jan Erkert and Dancers and Loop Troop. She was a Chicago Dancemaker's Forum 2005 Lab Artist, and created GIANT FIX, a site-specific work for an enormous, outdoor, drained pool. Her interest in staging dance outside the traditional theater has also placed The Seldoms in a railyard, under the Tiffany glass dome in the Chicago Cultural Center, an 80,000 sq.ft. antiques store, and on the grounds of Ragdale, an artists' retreat.

Ms. Hanson teaches contemporary dance technique and composition classes at The Dance Center of Columbia College Chicago. She has been a guest teacher for Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, River North Dance Company, and Melissa Thodos and Dancers. Ms. Hanson holds an MA in Dance Studies from Laban Centre London, a BFA in Modern Dance from Texas Christian University and is certified in Laban Movement Analysis.