ELEVATE CHICAGO DANCE 2018

ELEVATE CHICAGO DANCE 2017

BREAK OUT! 2013

LAB ARTIST 2005

Carrie Hanson is a choreographer, educator, and founding Artistic Director of The Seldoms. She creates performance charged by bold, exacting physicality and fueled by research in history, environment, and science. Hanson was Chicago Tribune’s 2015 “Chicagoan of the Year in Dance”, honored for her “brawny, brainy movement”. Her work about Lyndon Johnson, Power Goes, received a National Performance Network Creation Fund and NEFA National Dance Project Award, and toured to ten US venues, engaging a community cast in each city. Under her direction, The Seldoms has toured nationally, to Russia, Taiwan, and Scotland, and designed performance in spaces including an outdoor pool, Chicago Landmark fieldhouse, and a truck depot. She has been commissioned by the Museum of Contemporary Art, Texas Performing Arts, the Morton Arboretum, and the National Theater of Mannheim, Germany; was a 2015 resident at the National Center for Choreography Akron and Interdisciplinary Artist in Residence at UW-Madison in Fall 2019.