Upcoming Events

Audition

The Seldoms is looking for men and women for their 2008-09 Season.

Dancers should be trained in contemporary techniques, have strong performance and composition skills, and be able to contribute to the choreographic process.

Activities for 2008-09 includes work with Artistic Director Carrie Hanson and guest choreographers Darrell Jones and Liz Burritt, and inclusion on the 2008-09 Season at the Dance Center of Columbia College Chicago.

To reserve a place, please email c.hanson@theseldoms.org

Silverspace Salon

Artistic Director Carrie Hanson is featured at Chicago Dancemaker's Forum DF/Silverspace Salons, an informal monthly series of salon-style, artist talks with local and national dance artists committed to pushing their creative approach forward.

Artist's Talk

What comes first: the video or the dance?

Do artists, dancers, musicians, writers speak the same language? Artistic Director Carrie Hanson, Artistic Associate Douglas Stapleton (who also works as Assistant Curator of Art at the Illinois State Museum Chicago Gallery), and artist Jackie Kazarian discuss their most recent collaborations in making Overflow and Monument. Hear how such collaborations come to be and about the successes and difficulties in negotiating each artist's role in such multidisciplinary projects.

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