The Seldoms to Bring 'Power Goes' to Texas Performing Arts, 9/16 & 18

Our bodies' relationship to power infuses our language. Humans have an appetite for power. We hunger and thirst for it.

Chicago-based dance company The Seldoms make dance works of bold, exacting physicality driven by inquiry into contemporary issues. For this new dance theater work, choreographer Carrie Hanson invited playwright Stuart Flack to collaborate with her dancers and design team to investigate how power is understood and deployed.

President Lyndon Baines Johnson certainly hungered for power-and knew how to wield it. He intrinsically recognized that effective governance relies on successful performances-both public and private. Such displays of power established LBJ's political career and helped push forward transformative legislation such as the Civil Rights Act and the Medicare Bill. In Power Goes, Hanson uses the figure of LBJ as a lens to view power more broadly and to ask if the robust political muscle that LBJ embodied can even be possible in the United States today.

Set off by current political gridlock, Hanson's incisive study of power-how it is acquired, taken, wielded; how it is expressed by the body; how it can be deployed for progressive action or conversely create gridlock-is a breakthrough in dance and theater collaboration. Hanson created the work with the playwright, The Seldoms dancers, visual artist Sarah Krepp, designer Bob Faust, sound designer Mikhail Fiksel, costume designer Jeffrey Hancock, lighting designer Julie Ballard, and historian Michael J. Kramer.

In addition to $10 tickets for primary, secondary, or college students, Texas Performing Arts is now offering a limited number of $12 tickets to active and retired military personnel for all 2014-2015 season performances (excludes Broadway and special engagements). A military id is required. For a schedule of upcoming 2014-2015 season performances, please visit www.TexasPerformingArts.org.

For more information on this performance, please visit: http://texasperformingarts.org/season/seldoms-power-goes-mccullough-theatre-2015.

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