Archive: Auditions, Jobs, and Open Calls

Twin Cities Ballet is seeking Soloist and Principal level dancers for our 2024/25 Season. This is a competitive salaried position with a 35-week season. Strong classical ballet, partnering, and contemporary skills required. You must be eligible to work in the United States.

We also have opportunities for unpaid adult apprenticeship and student trainee positions for both male and female dancers.

Please submit the following audition materials by email to auditions@TwinCitiesBallet.org, and we will contact you after we have reviewed your audition materials to schedule an in-person or virtual audition.

• Your resumé.
• Two photos: First arabesque and a headshot showing at least 3/4 face. Either attach small format photos or provide a link.
• Video link showing classwork or performance clips, clearly demonstrating your classical ballet technique.

Hosted by Borealis Dance Theatre in Minneapolis, Dance Camera North provides a supportive space for dance filmmakers to challenge choreographic storytelling through film. This innovative platform creates the opportunity to expand the dynamic performative art of dance to larger audiences while pushing the envelope to what is possible through film. We want your film! There are categories for students as well as professionals.

Submissions Open: January 1, 2024 
Early Deadline: March 1, 2024 at 11:59pm Central Time 
Final Deadline: April 1, 2024 at 11:59pm Central Time 
Notifications Sent: April 10, 2024
Mankato Festival Date: April 13, 2024
Minneapolis Festival Date: June 1, 2024

More information about the festival, submission, as well as the jury panel is at www.borealisdance.org/dance-camera-north.

Twin Cities Ballet, a local nonprofit professional ballet company, would like to extend an exciting opportunity to all local dance students (intermediate/advanced level aged 11-18) and to Ballet Royale dancers (Academy Intermediate I or Pre Professional Program 4B or higher) to dance in its upcoming production, The Wall: A Rock Ballet.

Rehearsals will be Saturday evenings and some Sundays, beginning January 27. Performances are March 15-17, 2024 at the Fitzgerald Theater in St. Paul. No audition is necessary, and only a minimal fee of $50 to help cover production and costume costs is required.

Additional information and registration form.

There is a mandatory parent meeting via Zoom on Thursday, January 18 at 7:45pm where we will go over the commitment to the performance, student guidelines, and parent questions. For more information, please email Emily Winn, TCB Operations and Development Coordinator, at development@twincitiesballet.org.

We would love for your dancers to be a part of this performance!

Seize the chance to showcase your best and gain invaluable insights from the esteemed expert, Misha Tchoupakov – YAGP Final Rehearsal Director, Judge, Master Teacher, and Global Instructor.

For more information, click here.

Sunday, January 28
12:00-1:30pm

The Museum of Russian Art seeks a dancer/choreographer to create a short work inspired by our upcoming exhibition, Zoran’s Surrealist Sculptures: Dry Neck of the Pig and Other Curios. We are interested in movement as a form of museum interpretation, and we imagine dance as embodied knowledge, offering museum visitors a unique way of experiencing artwork.

We anticipate a two-part process: first, getting to know the exhibition, engaging with the artwork, learning the space, and experimenting with movement. Second, performing the short work (completed or in-process) 2-4 times over the course of the exhibition, which runs from February 3, 2024 through May 26, 2024. Compensation is a flat fee of $400.

Possible themes for exploration might include surrealism, the relationship between humans and nature, environmental care, materiality, power, ecology, sustainability, climate, folklore (and we’re sure there are many other possibilities as well!).

Interested dancers should submit a resume and brief statement of interest (a paragraph is great!) to kmckay@tmora.org by February 2, 2024. We encourage submissions from students, emerging choreographers, scholar-practitioners, and those wishing to explore nontraditional dance spaces. Solo artists and/or small ensembles (2-3 dancers) are welcome to submit.

The Museum of Russian Art (TMORA) promotes understanding of the art, people, and culture of Muscovite Russia, the Russian Empire, the Soviet Union and its former republics through outstanding exhibitions, cultural presentations, and educational programs serving the people of Minnesota and the nation. The Museum upholds an independent voice and the freedom of expression to carry out its mission unconstrained by influence from foreign governments, political actors and/or corporate or individual interests.

Minnesota Ballet Theatre is hiring male and female dancers with strong classical technique for Company Trainee, Apprentice, and Company Artist positions for the 2024/2025 Season.

To be considered for Company Artist positions, please submit your resume/CV and video link to minnesotaballettheatre@gmail.com. Videos should include a classical variation – en pointe for women. Latest performance video is preferred if possible.

Twin Cities Ballet is seeking Soloist and Principal level dancers for our 2024/25 Season. This is a competitive salaried position with a 35-week season. Strong classical ballet, partnering, and contemporary skills required. You must be eligible to work in the United States.

We also have opportunities for unpaid adult apprenticeship and student trainee positions for both male and female dancers.

Please submit the following audition materials by email to auditions@TwinCitiesBallet.org, and we will contact you after we have reviewed your audition materials to schedule an in-person or virtual audition.

• Your resumé.
• Two photos: First arabesque and a headshot showing at least 3/4 face. Either attach small format photos or provide a link.
• Video link showing classwork or performance clips, clearly demonstrating your classical ballet technique.

Choreographers Berit Ahlgren (HoneyWorks) and Helen Hatch (Hatch Dance) seek dancers for a new ensemble work that will premiere at the fourth iteration of Live @ The Shed taking place June 2024. Professional dancers of all ages, backgrounds, and experiences are encouraged to apply. Applicants will be asked to improvise, as well as learn phrase work, as we seek individuals who are creative, collaborative, and expressive.

We are interested in building a unique composition based on ever shifting patterns within a constantly changing musical score, requiring attuned movers who are excited to react and respond to dynamic shifts around them. We seek collaborators who are interested in offering creative solutions, patience within a complex process, and adaptability in physicality.

Dancers who have participated in previous Live @ The Shed productions should fill out an interest form but need not audition.

Audition:
Saturday, January 13, 2024 between 6:30-8:30pm and
Sunday, January 14, 2024 between 10:00am-12:00pm
At Saint Paul Ballet.
If you are unable to audition in person, you may submit a short video (under 5 minutes) in your registration form. Please include improvisation as well as performance footage.

Phase I: Development of new work – An intensive rehearsal process will run for three weeks between February 12-March 1, Monday–Friday from 11:00am-3:00pm. Optional class will be offered free of charge from 9:30-11:00am prior to rehearsal. Rehearsals at St. Paul Ballet.

Phase II: Preparation for Live @ The Shed performances – Rehearsals in April–June, Mondays and Thursdays 12:00-3:30pm, performances June 14-16, 2024. All dates are subject to change.

Compensation: Hourly rate for all rehearsals and performances, based on experience $15-25/hour.

To register, please fill out this form by January 12, 2024.

Apprentice positions available. If you’d like to be considered, please note that on registration. This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund.

Zoë Koenig and Nora Nygard seek dancers for a new evening-length work, Physical Prizes. 

Physical Prizes will study and satirize the rehearsal and performance experience of dancers in professional, social, and competitive settings. How do dancers navigate situations in which they are forced to override their impulses and needs to conform to a choreographer’s vision? How do those conditions impact audience perceptions of performance? What mechanisms drive the systems that place pressure on artists seeking recognition to cultivate certain classifications of self? How do performance behaviors shift or constrict as artist identities become market categories?

Rehearsals will take place in Minneapolis from February through July 2024. Dancers will be compensated at $17/hour.

February and March rehearsals will be held on Mondays, 5:30-7:30pm.
April and May rehearsals will be held on Mondays, 5:00-7:30pm.
June and July rehearsals will be held on Tuesdays, 5:00-7:30pm.
There will be no rehearsal on March 11 and May 13.
Dancers with partial availability will still be considered.

This first stage of the development process will include a public roundtable discussion in March, an open rehearsal in May, and a work-in-progress showing in July.

To apply, please submit application materials via this form before 5:00pm CT on January 15. 

This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a Minnesota State Arts Board grant, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund.

Twin Cities Ballet, a local nonprofit professional ballet company, would like to extend an exciting opportunity to all local dance students (intermediate/advanced level aged 11-18) and to Ballet Royale dancers (Academy Intermediate I or Pre Professional Program 4B or higher) to dance in its upcoming production, The Wall: A Rock Ballet.

Rehearsals will be Saturday evenings and some Sundays, beginning January 27. Performances are March 15-17, 2024 at the Fitzgerald Theater in St. Paul. No audition is necessary, and only a minimal fee of $50 to help cover production and costume costs is required.

Additional information and registration form.

There is a mandatory parent meeting via Zoom on Friday, January 20 at 7:45pm. For more information, please email Emily Winn, TCB Operations and Development Coordinator, at development@twincitiesballet.org.

We would love for your dancers to be a part of this performance!