Archive: Auditions, Jobs, and Open Calls

Collide Theatrical is casting Jr. Apprentice Dancers for our fall production of The Great Gatsby at Luminary Arts Center, September 29-October 15, 2023.

Ages of 16-19.
Seeking technically trained dancers with excellent performance skills.
Rehearsals take place on Sundays in September and October.
This is an unpaid position. No participation fees required.

Don’t miss a chance to dance with a professional company, add performance credits to your resume, increase your technical skills, and grow as a performance artist!

Audition
Wednesday, August 31
7:30-8:30pm
RSVP is required.

Questions? Email Admin@collidetheatrical.org

2023/2024 Apprentice Program, September 2023–May 2024

Collide Theatrical’s Apprentice Program provides the skills needed to pursue formal positions within the Collide company and in the world of theater dance.

Selected apprentice dancers will take technique class with the company 3–5 days a week, have an opportunity to perform in a Collide show, and participate in an Apprentice showcase at the end of the year.

The technical classes include a variety of styles rooted in ballet and jazz, but also including tap, acting for dance, and hip hop. Apprentice dancers will also have an opportunity to participate in monthly master classes with Broadway touring dance captains and industry professionals.

This is a tuition-based program.
Scholarships are available for underrepresented artists.
Enrollment is competitive and audition based.
Video submissions accepted.

In-person auditions will take place:
Wednesday, May 31
7:00–8:30pm
Sign up to audition

For more information, please contact Grace at admin@collidetheatrical.org.

Collide Theatrical Dance Company is seeking technically trained professional dancers with excellent acting skills for 23-week contracts and Guest Artist positions in our 2023-2024 Performance Season.

Audition
Thursday, June 1 at 10:00am
The studio will be open at 9:30 to warm up.
Please bring a resume and headshot, as well as jazz shoes, ballet shoes, and heels.
Callbacks will happen the same day – please plan to stay for 2 hours.
Click here to register.

Collide Theatrical Dance Company is an equal opportunity employer. All employment decisions are based on individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, marital status, political affiliation, status with respect to public assistance or veteran status, or other status protected by law.

Apply to be Ballet Co.Laboratory’s 2024 Emerging Choreographer.

Ballet Co.Laboratory believes in the development of the whole dancer and works to invest in artists’ professional growth. Each season, through our Laboratory II: Emerging Choreographer Program, one choreographer is hired through this program to create a new, full-length, staged ballet production which is performed by the upper-level students at The School of Ballet Co.Laboratory (ages 11-20).

Choreographers applying to this program are encouraged to think critically about how ballet can continue to evolve in becoming more inclusive and forward-thinking. Rather than create a piece that is simply based on movement, artists are asked to create a production with a storyline that sparks the imagination and challenges the audiences’ perception of what ballet is. Choreographers are encouraged to expand upon the classic narrative by rethinking the characters, adding characters, or even reimagining the characters’ paths. 

All applicants must live in Minnesota, have had formal ballet training, and consider themselves to be an emerging choreographer.

AMP is looking for dynamic and expressive movers for projects as part of our upcoming 2023-24 season. We are seeking passionate, authentic, and curious movers who want to work collaboratively, immerse and challenge themselves with a wide range of material, and continue their artistic development through working with a variety of artists. If this is you, come Move BIG with AMP!

Ideal candidates to join our community of artists should have a strong sense of your individual/unique movement point of view and possess an inquisitive and investigative nature rooted in community-building. All genders, races, and ethnicities are welcome and encouraged to audition.

Alternative Motion Project serves as a catalyst to empower and connect individuals and communities through the art of contemporary dance. AMP presents accessible, compelling, and collaborative dance experiences through performance and education programs. To interact with and learn more about the AMP community, we encourage you to attend (either in part or fully) AMPLIFIED 2023 – AMP’s Summer Workshop, June 5-8. More on AMPLIFIED.

Movers selected as company members will be independent contractors. Stipends will be contracted based on the amount of time and involvement within each project and performance. Benefits also include free weekly movement practice, when offered.

Audition
Friday, June 9
10:00am-1:00pm
At Zenon Dance School
RSVP/Registration by June 8 is appreciated and highly encouraged.

Bring with you:
Your general schedule/availability.
Knee pads are also recommended.

Priority will be given to in person auditions. If you are unable to attend, you may submit a video through the RSVP/Registration form. Video submissions must be received by 11:59pm on June 8 to be considered.

Direct questions to alternativemotionproject@gmail.com.

Off-Leash Area announces an artist call for proposals for the second Off-Kilter Cabaret “Inside Outside Inside-Out”.

Off-Leash Area’s Off-Kilter community program highlights and supports artists with disabilities in creating original performance work. The second Off-Kilter Cabaret is an evening-length cabaret-style production comprised of 5 to 7 acts in any performing art form curated by the Off-Kilter Leadership Team – leaders in the disability community, two-thirds of whom are themselves persons with disabilities.

Performances will be held November 17-19 at the TEK Box at the Cowles Center for Performing Arts in downtown Minneapolis, a fully accessible black box theater with a floor-level stage. The event will include accessibility accommodations including ASL interpreting, captioning, and audio description.

The CFP opens June 1, and artists with disabilities are asked to submit proposals by the deadline of July 14 of a 5-to-10-minute original performance on the theme of “Inside Outside Inside-Out”. Off-Leash Area co-artistic director Jennifer Ilse says, “We want to prompt artists to propose risky, rebellious, and thought-provoking performances, informed by their own experience of being included or excluded, feeling within or outside of oneself, or even just discombobulated.”

The Off-Kilter Advisory Team is writer and storyteller Amy Salloway, arts accessibility consultant Jon Skaalen, national touring musician Gabriel Rodreick, and Sam Jasmine, host of the Disability and Progress program on KFAI. Off-Leash Area is excited to be partnering again with Young Dance, whose mission is: “transforming lives through movement.”

Any questions or want more information? Visit our website here, contact us at offleash@offleasharea.org, or call us at 612-724-7372.

Brutus, devised from Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, created and directed by Rebecca Wickert and Ella Eastman-Kiesow, with choreography by Nakeema King, is a multidisciplinary performance of theater arts and dance performing at Theatre in the Round during the 30th Annual Minnesota Fringe Festival.

Awaken in the depths of a tormented mind and follow the quest of a young, passionate, tragic hero as they navigate political and social influences in their own nightmare. Through the story of Caesar’s brutal murder and the fallout afterwards, from the perspective of Shakespeare’s tragic hero, Brutus, we will explore gender oppression, madness, and moral dilemma. How is radical protest justified? Is good and evil black and white? How do the systems in place contribute to hysteria?

With elements of modern dance and alternative rock music to guide the way, Brutus learns the power of manipulation, violence, and hysteria in a world of corrupted politics and power. The addition of dance and surrealist horror will give the show a captivating, nightmarish tone, while exploring horrifyingly real emotions. Through Shakespeare’s text and the additions of modern dance and theater, we hope to shine a new light on this classic play. 

We are working with a condensed script, but this group will devise movement and language throughout the rehearsal process to tell specific stories. This piece will be a collaboration of many disciplines and artists; experience with dance, music, physical acting, and/or stage combat is encouraged, but absolutely not required! Performing artists will receive a small stipend for their work.

Please bring a printed head shot and resume to auditions.
Dancers Audition: Friday, May 26 at 10:00am
Actors Audition: Friday, May 26 from 7:00-9:00pm

Must be 18 or older to audition. You may sign up for both an acting and a dance audition if you wish.

Rehearsals
Monday through Thursday, June 5-29, 7:00-10:00pm
Monday through Thursday, July 10-31, 7:00-10:00pm
Saturdays, July 10-31, 11:00am-2:00pm
Technical Rehearsal: TBA

Performances
August 5 at 2:30pm
August 6 at 10:00pm
August 7 at 8:30pm
August 10 at 5:30pm
August 13 at 7:00pm