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 Timothy 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 Timothy 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. With voluminous costume design by Lara Miller and Damon D. Green, and lighting design by Kevin Rechner.