"Inside the wide, weird world of the dancemaking, rule-breaking pair FLOCK"

“In a rehearsal for “Into Being,” a world-premiere contemporary dance piece for Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, a pair peels off from the ensemble and flows to the left side of the stage.

In a duet, the dancers writhe around each other, pausing and posing here and there, and then they create an unusual form: One bends back, supported by the other’s leg. The taller, larger dancer leans on the smaller. It’s a far cry from the trope of the leaping ballerina, held at the waist by a muscular, possibly shirtless, male dancer, aiming for an illusion of anti-gravity. No — both dancers in this duet maintain an equality in their individuality. What jumps out is not weightlessness but strength.

“Into Being,” which premieres on Hubbard Street’s winter program Feb. 29 to March 3, is a return migration for contemporary choreographers Alice Klock and Florian Lochner. Together, they are known simply as FLOCK, a name duetted together that has become synonymous with a type of dancemaking that constructs forms out of multiple dancing bodies, a style that plays well on Instagram to the pair’s more than 90,000 followers.”

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