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Dancing With—Not Around—The Issues Elizabeth A. Liebman Program

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  • ABOUT Carrie Hanson

    Carrie Hanson is a performer, choreographer, and dance educator. Named one of Dance Magazine’s “25 To Watch” in 2012, she has led The Seldoms for a decade, creating over twenty-five original works. Under the direction of Hanson, The Seldoms has gained a reputation for both thoughtful, rigorous dance theater work and bold performance in unusual spaces such as cargo containers and truck depots. Profile

  • ABOUT The Seldoms

    The Seldoms, hailed by TimeOut Chicago for an "intellectually adventuresome, whistle-clean aesthetic," make contemporary dance work driven by inquiry in contemporary issues, the history of art and ideas, and individual experience. Under the direction of choreographer Carrie Hanson, the center of the work is dance, however the vision and collaboration extends to a total action and environment. Their latest work, Stupormarket, was named the "Best of 2011" by the Chicago Tribune, TimeOut Chicago and the Reader. Profile

  • ABOUT Zachary Whittenburg

    Zachary Whittenburg spent ten years as a professional dancer with companies including Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, BJM Danse Montréal and Pacific Northwest Ballet. He has presented choreography in Chicago and Canada and taught ballet and improvisation.

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Chicago-based dance company The Seldoms is steadily gaining a national profile, thanks in large part to artistic director Carrie Hanson. By skillfully applying dance’s tools of abstraction to powerful effect—and illuminating nuances in the process, without being trite or preachy—Hanson and The Seldoms address current political, economic, and environmental issues with aplomb. And boy, can they dance! In this program, The Seldoms performs excerpts from the 2010 work Stupormarket (which tackles the economic crisis) and Exit Disclaimer: Science and Fiction Ahead, a new work on clean energy technologies that will premier this fall. Zachary Whittenburg, former dancer/choreographer and current dance and culture writer, then joins Hanson for a discussion about the development of these works and, more broadly, about how dance can uniquely address current issues.

blog Read CHF staffer Julia Mayer's blog post on this program.

 This program is generously underwritten by Elizabeth A. Liebman.

Photo Credit: Brian Kuhlmann

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