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“German/American duo FLOCK (Alice Klock and Florian Lochner) continue to impress audiences around the world with their brand of dance, fluid and interconnected partnering, superb technique and introspective storytelling. This Spring, Flock returns to Chicago to present new work with an expanded roster of dancers.

“Somewhere Between” by FLOCK debuts at The Dance Centre, Columbia College from March 23-25. The work is an expansion of a recent FLOCK film project “Selkie,” a sixteen-minute short film produced in Germany last year and available now to watch on FLOCK’s YouTube channel. For the live action version, FLOCK will again work with long time collaborators, composer Angus MacRae and lighting designer Julie Ballard, and includes music by Wolff Bergen, Michael Wall and Brambles.

“Selkies” are from Gaelic and Nordic myths. My lineage comes from that part of the world,” Klock said in an interview. “It’s about these seals that can shed their skin, leave the ocean and live as humans. When they are out there living as humans, they don’t remember they were ever a seal, but they have this feeling that ‘I come from somewhere else; I’m kind of missing this mysterious past.’ If they find their skin, they return to the water and forget their whole human life. And if their skin is found by a human they are owned by that particular human.”