"All at Once" – The Seldoms with Tim Daisy PREMIERE

All at Once is The Seldoms' new hour-long work of dance and live percussion in collaboration with Chicago percussionist/composer Timothy Daisy.
Six dancers. Three musicians. An evermore kinetic, kaleidoscopic terrain.

Premiere! October 16-17 at 7:30pm

The choreography unfolds as a living canvas, with limbs extending in sharp, disjointed angles that evoke Picasso's fractured planes and overlapping dimensions. –See Chicago Dance

Chicago-based The Seldoms kick off their 25th Anniversary at Studio5 with a world premiere! All at Once is a new Cubist-inspired performance work by The Seldoms and Tim Daisy involving contemporary dance, live percussion, and voluminous costume to create a kinetic, kaleidoscopic terrain. In All at Once, choreographer Carrie Hanson and the ensemble of six virtuosic dancers attempt to apply principles of Cubism to movement—an impossible unfolding of the three-dimensional body that drives invention. In his third collaboration with The Seldoms, composer and percussionist Tim Daisy has crafted an original work for three percussionists that relies on a structured architectural framework. This open design both meets the choreography and weaves in improvisation and chance operations to introduce risk and unpredictability. Featuring a diverse instrumentation of marimba, drums, cymbals, gongs, and an array of smaller percussion, the piece delivers a rich sonic palette, creating a dynamic acoustic environment to meet and juxtapose the dancers' driving, angular movement.

BIOS
In its 25th Anniversary Year, The Seldoms is an acclaimed Chicago dance company that creates multimedia performance charged by bold physicality and the belief that dance can inspire thinking about pressing issues. Under the direction of choreographer Carrie Hanson, the company designs expansive productions with practitioners of visual arts, theater, sound, fashion, and often scientists and historians. The Seldoms has performed in twenty US cities and toured to Russia, Canada, Taiwan, and Scotland. Locally the company has performed at a range of venues including the Harris Theater for Music and Dance, the Chicago Botanic Garden, and Steppenwolf’s 1700 Theater, and they have designed works for sites including a truck garage, an outdoor pool, the Morton Arboretum, and a Chicago Landmark park fieldhouse. They have twice been commissioned by ART on theMART to create works for projection on the Mart over the Chicago River. The company is dedicated to using performance as a platform for dialogue and collective inspiration. https://www.theseldoms.org/

Tim Daisy is a Chicago-based drummer and composer working in the fields of improvised and composed music. He has performed and recorded original music for modern dance, sound installations, film, and improvised music ensembles of various configurations since 1997 and has toured extensively throughout the United States, Canada and Europe. Tim also owns and operates Relay Recordings, documenting much of the creative work he has been involved with in Chicago and abroad since 2011.https://timdaisy.wordpress.com/

photos by A. Deran Photography

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