“Floe is a dance‑theater work that confronts the climate crisis not as a distant abstraction but as a lived, bodily reality.” Splash Magazine’s LaRita S. Smith reviews The Seldoms’s recent Chicago premiere of Floe, their latest work.
See Chicago Dance: Natya Dance Theatre Celebrates 50 Years at Dance Center of Columbia College Chicago
Like all of Natya Dance Theatre’s canon, “Sharīra Sharīri – Held Within” is representative of Artistic Director Hema Rajagopalan’s philosophy, put simply, “to get better, to love each other, to share, to lose one’s ego.” Rather than narrating philosophy, Natya’s work embodies it, allowing the audience to experience phenomenally the interconnection of all beings and how they are intertwined with the source of life, a message as old as the practice of philosophy itself, re-imagined by a classical dance company whose tradition is to be contemporary.
New City Stage Features FLOE: A Clear Urgency and a Call to Action in Carrie Hanson’s New Work
The Seldoms’ postponed “Floe” about climatechange premieres in a hotter world. New City Stage’s Sharon Hoyer talks to Carrie Hanson about The Seldoms’s upcoming premiere of FLOE at the Dance Center.
