The Seldoms: Archive

May 18th

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May 3rd

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Flashback #2: GIANT FIX/dance in a pool

The second in our “Flashback Friday” series is already out of chronological order, fast-forwarding to 2005. I don’t know why I’m racing forward, other than it’s May and I’m thinking about being outside…though not necessarily dancing outside. Certainly one of our most memorable productions was GIANT FIX, the dance in a pool. Staged in the outdoor, Olympic-sized pool at Hamlin Park, the work was a...

May 3rd

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Apr 26th

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Apr 20th

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Flashback #1: May 2002

In our current reflective mood during our 10th anniversary year, we are doing some thumbing through the memory pages of our body-of-work album. This is an exercise that is simultaneously affirming, humbling, and mostly - surprising - at the sheer amount of creative work by so many artists/collaborators that has been built and shared with audiences over this past decade. We’d like to share...

Apr 20th

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Dancer Perspectives: Endurance Performance

Our February show at the Harris Theater for Music and Dance presented several challenges for the performers - dancing on concrete, indeterminacy in audience placement, but most considerably - the sheer duration of it. They danced for three and 1/2 hours, with very short breaks to hydrate, towel off…and mutter a few curse words. Our Harris Theater project was designed to give you unique...

Apr 6th

Apr 2nd

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THE SELDOMS 10YRS Opening Event

Our 10th year opened with our debut at the Harris Theater for Music and Dance on February 4, 2012. In collaboration with fashion designer Maria Pinto and percussionist/composer Timothy Daisy, twelve of Chicago’s finest and most interesting dancers and 12 exceptional musicians from our city’s new music scene, The Seldoms rocked the Harris in a show unlike anything it’s seen...

Mar 14th

"Stupormarket" preview in TimeOut Chicago →

“Stupormarket succeeds at bringing a situation we regard with anger, frustration and fatigue a fresh new perspective. There’s no shortage of editorials bemoaning our financial future, but this one has its sleeves rolled up, bearing ideas that actually help.” Zac Whittenburg TimeOut Chicago

Feb 18th

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STUPORMARKET!

Stupormarket is The Seldoms’ new dance theater work about the economic blowout and the ongoing wobbly recovery. From the luxury market to the unemployment line, and the trading floor to the housing market, Stupormarket ranges broadly across the economic terrain and two different camps of economic thought, neither of which warned loudly enough. Directed and choreographed by Artistic Director...

Feb 18th

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Sep 17th

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Sep 9th

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Aug 5th

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Our Russia trip featured in TimeOut Chicago!

Following our trip to Krasnoyarsk, Russia (Siberia!) to teach and perform at the Isadora International Festival of Contemporary Dance, we sat down with TimeOut Chicago’s Dance Editor, Zachary Whittenburg, to share our adventure! The article - “Siberian Vogue: A remote Russian city gets a lesson in fabulousness” - features company member, Damon Green, who brought voguing to an...

Jun 12th

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May 21st

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May 21st

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May 21st

Scenes from the ISADORA Festival →

In its first international tour, the company captured the hearts of the Russian dance students at the ISADORA FESTIVAL of Contemporary Dance! In particular, our much-loved and ultra-sassy Damon Green stole the show with his VOGUING classes.

May 7th

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May 2nd

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Apr 2nd

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Apr 2nd

"Marchland a spare, but visually stunning piece"... →

Mar 21st

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Mar 9th

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About "Marchland" - Fraser's notes about the video

The film for Marchland uses “Crevice” as a visual and conceptual point of departure. “Crevice” was an animation, produced in 2007, in collaboration with Nicholas O’Brien. This film was made by drawing directly onto 16mm clear leader, a very minute surface that repressed the gesture required to make marks on this filmstrip. These miniature inscriptions took on a capricious...

Feb 11th

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Kudos for "Marchland" collaborator TIM DAISY

ABOUT TIM DAISY “His work with Ken Vandermark is what initially turned me on. Like Ken, his playing lets you know he knows his instrument and the tradition, yet is just enough outside to let you know he’s an artist, stretching and searching for the unknown. Hearing him in the group Klang this past summer really opened my ears to the shapes and colors he can paint on the drums.” ...

Feb 8th

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About "Marchland" - Notes about the Set

I am building two walls, which will be suspended on both sides of the stage and will project horizontally into the auditorium. The purpose is to bridge the gap between performance and audience. The constructions are based on my sculptures, which reflect my interest in such things as decaying architectures. The work occupies an in-between space, somewhere between construction and demolition. The...

Feb 8th

Feb 1st

Meet our Russian friends!

During my January residency in Krasnoyarsk with the Elena Slobodchikova Dance Company, I developed a new section of Marchland, the evening-length work that has been my major focus this season. Marchland is about spaces - contested spaces, border spaces, remote spaces. I began the process in the studio with the Russian dancers with a discussion; asking them to think and talk about their notions of...

Feb 1st

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Return from Krasnoyarsk

As part of The Seldoms’ Russia Exchange 2010, I headed to Krasnoyarsk (Siberia!) for 8 days in January to work with four dancers of the Elena Slobodchikova Dance Company. Krasnoyarsk is deep within Siberia, a 5-hour flight eastbound from Moscow, and directly north of Thailand - it’s just about on the other side of the globe. The trip was many things - challenging due to extreme...

Jan 28th

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En route to New York for the Association of Performing Arts Presenters Conference. Don’t miss your opportunity to see us performing Thrift - just named by New City as one the top 5 dance performances of 2009 in Chicago! Sunday, January 10 2:45-4:25 PM (We perform at 4:15 PM.) The Ailey Citigroup Theater 405 W. 55th Street (at 9th Avenue) New York, NY 10019 Stay tuned for more updates...

Jan 8th

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