Floe - Chicago premiere by The Seldoms at The Dance Center of Columbia College Chicago

Floe, choreographed by The Seldoms Artistic Director Carrie Hanson, is a dance theater work about the climate crisis: vanishing polar ice, rising sea levels, extreme weather, forced migration, the tension between denial and evidence, and adaptation and resilience. The work embodies the fragmentation of the global conversation on climate change as it veers from anti-science conspiracy theories to the very real and urgent impacts of global warming. Floe fits into The Seldoms’ interest in the environment, with a body of performance work that conceives a relationship to Earth and to all life on Earth based in stewardship and sustainability, pluralism, and justice—and the fact that the new normal is change.