Carrie Hanson

Carrie Hanson

BFA Modern Dance, Texas Christian University
MA Dance, Trinity Laban

Carrie Hanson is a choreographer, director, and dance educator. Her work involves research and embodiment of social, political, environmental issues, and history, as a mode of pressing performance to speak to larger issues. Since founding The Seldoms in 2002, 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”, honored for her “brawny, brainy movement”. Under her direction, The Seldoms has toured nationally and to Russia, Taiwan, and Scotland, while gaining a reputation for bold performance in spaces including a truck depot and an outdoor pool. She has received commissions from Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Texas Performing Arts, the Morton Arboretum, and National Theater of Mannheim, Germany.