Marchland is a full-length dance where bodies and images vie for contested territory. The title refers to a border region – the threshold between two places. In a dense terrain — formed by a kinetic film and live, percussive soundscore — highly charged action bursts forward. Marchland premiered at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago in 2010. The work explores spatial politics – the designation, negotiation, and claiming of space. Many different types of physical or psychological boundaries are invoked in the piece – barriers between bodies, actions between groups, and constructions built to delineate these boundaries — a ceaseless reconfiguring of alliances and territories.

The Seldoms is a Chicago-based dance company that values making intelligent, visually rich dance theater driven by inquiry. Under the direction of founder Carrie Hanson, the company is committed to bringing audiences an expanded experience of dance that ignites thought around real-world issues. With dance at the center, the company’s vision extends to a total action and environment and includes collaboration with practitioners in fields including theater, architecture, installation, video, sound, and fashion.