The A.W.A.R.D. Show
Artists With Audiences Responding to Dance
The Seldoms have been invited to participate in this unique event with a chance to win $10,000! Buy your ticket now for June 26!
Artistic Director Carrie Hanson and company member Paige Cunningham will perform Thrift.
"Choreographer Hanson's duet, "Thrift," with Paige Cunningham, is a reaction to the current economic crisis and an experimentation with streamlined, or economical, movement. Set against the sounds of counting money and a remarkably entrancing lecture by Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman on the financial meltdown, the piece is winkingly restrained. Hanson, a taut introspective dancer, pairs with Cunningham's lean lyricism to mesmerizing effect. Their individual solos include dangling arms and a striking of body parts that recalls the domino-like innards of a mechanical clock. They eventually strip the stage bare – and subtly ask if purging oneself of unnecessary things is such a terrible thing." - Chicago Tribune
The A.W.A.R.D. Show! 2009: Chicago, features the work of 12 promising choreographers over a course of three evenings – June 24, 25 & 26, 2009. Audiences will vote to select each evening's finalist, who will advance to the fourth and final night of the series.
On the final night, Saturday, June 27, 2009, the audience along with a panel of dance experts will vote again to choose the winner of the $10,000 prize. The two runners-up will receive $1,000. These awards are to be used toward the creation of new dance work.
A moderated artist and audience discussion will follow each performance. To encourage further dialogue between the audience and artists about the work, The Dance Center will also host a post-performance reception each evening.
Summer 2009 Intensive
Join The Seldoms for ten mid-summer mornings. Two-hour sessions will include warm-up, stretch, & conditioning, technical exercises with emphasis on sound anatomical practices, and ample exploration and play with extended phrase material.
For intermediate to advanced dancers.
Dates
July 20-July 31, Monday-Friday
9:30am-11:30am
1945 S. Halsted, 4th floor
Registration
10 classes for $130
5 classes for $70
$15/individual class
Early bird discount: Register and pay before June 1,
10 classes for $125 or 5 classes for $65.
To register, contact us at (312) 328-0303 or
mail@theseldoms.org.
Classes Taught By:
| Carrie Hanson Artistic Director | Mon/Wed/Fri |
| Paige Cunningham Guest Teacher | Tu/Thu Week 1 |
| Christina Gonzalez-Gillett Assistant Director | Tu/Thu Week 2 |
CLASS DESCRIPTIONS
Contemporary 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.
Drawing from elements of Merce Cunningham's technique as well as her own eclectic approach, Paige Cunningham's class focuses on dynamic range, alignment, line and clarity. Dancers will be encouraged to explore their individuality, musicality and athleticism through a standing warm-up and larger movement phrases.
Conceptually focused around Laban's work and Bartineff Fundamentals, Christina Gonzalez-Gillett blends her background in traditional forms of modern dance with release-based techniques to facilitate the discovery of dynamics within movement.
The OTHER Dance Festival
October 1-2 at 7:30pm
The Seldoms join other Chicago dance artists at this three-week long annual festival hosted by the Chicago Moving Company.
Hamlin Park Fieldhouse Studio Theater
3035 N. Hoyne, Chicago
Info & Tickets: www.chicagomovingcompany.org/otherfest
2010
Our major project for the upcoming 2009-2010 Season is a new collaboration with visual and textile artist, Fraser Taylor, and fashion designer, Lara Miller. Marchland, a new evening-length work to premiere at the Museum of Contemporary Art in early 2010, is about mark-making, endurance, traction, and borders. Marchland is imagined as a work whose charged, perilous environment ultimately echoes spaces of cultural and ethnic friction and instability.
