Carrie Hanson

Carrie Hanson is a choreographer, educator, and the Artistic Director of The Seldoms. She has designed projects with practitioners of visual arts, theater, music/sound design, fashion, and architecture. In 2016, she was named Chicago Tribune’s “Chicagoan of the Year in Dance” and honored for her “brawny, brainy movement.” The Seldoms has toured nationally and to Russia, Taiwan, and Scotland. They are known for performing in unique spaces including an outdoor pool and a truck depot.

Her 2015 work about the figure of Lyndon B. Johnson, Power Goes, received a National Dance Project Award and toured to ten U.S. venues, engaging a community cast in each city. She has received commissions from the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Texas Performing Arts, the Morton Arboretum, and the National Theater of Mannheim, Germany. Hanson was a 2015 resident artist at the National Center for Choreography at the University of Akron.

The fall 2019 Interdisciplinary Arts Residency Program was presented by the UW–Madison Division of the Arts and hosted by the Dance Department with Kate Corby as lead faculty. Co-sponsors included the Chazen Museum of Art, the Wisconsin Union Theater and the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies.

The UW–Madison Division of the Arts has hosted world-class artists-in-residence since 1995 and formally launched the Interdisciplinary Arts Residency Program (IARP) in 1999. The IARP is made possible by funding from the university’s Office of the Provost.

The Seldoms is comprised of artists and educators who introduce the work and dance/performance in inventive, focused ways to connect with audiences, students, and communities. Full-length works have addressed pressing issues such as the 2008 recession, climate change, and most recently a trilogy about power in America.

Residency guest artists include Solomon Bowser, Philip Elson, Sarah Gonsiorowski, Damon D. Green, and Maggie Vannucci – all part of The Seldoms.

Faheem Majeed is a builder—literally and metaphorically. A resident of the South Shore neighborhood in Chicago, Majeed often looks to the material makeup of his neighborhood and surrounding areas as an entry point into larger questions around civic-mindedness, community activism, and institutional critique. Majeed transforms materials such as particle board, scrap metal and wood, and discarded signs and billboard remnants, breathing new life into these often overlooked and devalued materials.

Alex Rose is a biologist, diver, musician, and underwater photographer. She is the Project Manager for Elysium Artists for the Arctic, Science Editor of Ocean Geographic Magazine, Managing Editor of Ocean Geographic Explorers, and founder of ocean conservation company Blue Ring. Her goal is to find ways to protect our world’s precious marine habitats through diving, writing, photography, education, and research.

• Highlights from the Carrie Hanson Fall 2019 Interdisciplinary Arts Residency
• “An artistic response to climate change,” courtesy of Wisconsin State Journal
• “The Week Ahead: Restaurant Week, ‘Kill Bill Vol. 1’ and The Seldoms,” courtesy of The Cap Times
• “Dance Theater Aboard the Pequod, the Flat Earth Movement, and Climate Inaction,” courtesy of Carrie Hanson
• “Moving delights,” courtesy of Isthmus
• “The Seldoms’ ‘Floe’ hits hard truth of global warming with athletic lyricism,” courtesy of See Chicago Dance
• “10 must-see performances this winter,” courtesy of Wisconsin State Journal
• “UW–Madison students, artist-in-residence Carrie Hanson present ‘From topic to topography’ Nov. 21,” courtesy of UW–Madison School of Education News
• “8 events to enjoy this weekend,” courtesy of Madison Magazine
• “Dance Department presents Kate Corby & Dancers with The Seldoms, Nov. 14-16,” courtesy of UW–Madison School of Education News
• “Earth Day@50 Arts Initiative celebrates the intersection of arts and the environment,” courtesy of The Nelson Institute
• “Q&A: Choreographer Carrie Hanson connects the stage to the world,” courtesy of The Cap Times
• “Bridging the Gap: the Crisis of Climate Change and Performance Art,” courtesy of The Green Room blog
• UW–Madison students and Interdisciplinary Artist-in-Residence Carrie Hanson present “From Topic to Topography: Mapping Issues through Movement” event on Nov. 21
• Wisconsin Science Festival encourages bridging of arts, sciences, courtesy of The Badger Herald
• 10 reasons to attend the Wisconsin Science Festival, courtesy of Isthmus
• Science Festival Panels Examine Science and Society
• Isthmus Fall Arts Preview
• Madison Fall Arts Preview 2019, courtesy of Madison Magazine
• UW–Madison to host choreographer Carrie Hanson as the fall 2019 Interdisciplinary Artist-in-Residence
• Division of the Arts selects three artists for 2019-20 residency
• The Seldoms
• Monument
• Floe work-in-progress at the Rothko Chapel
• RockCitizen
• Power Goes
• Marchland 2018 Links Hall
• Exit Disclaimer: Science and Fiction Ahead