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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!

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.

Auditions will take place on 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.

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 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 arts form, curated by the Off-Kilter Leadership Team, who are leaders in the disability community, and 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, and the event will include accessibility accommodations including ASL interpreting, captioning and audio description.

The CFP opens June 1. Artists with disabilities are asked to submit proposals for a 5-to-10-minute original performance on the theme of Inside Outside Inside-Out by the deadline of July 14.

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 are: 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 at http://www.offleasharea.org/about-off-kilter.html or contact us at offleash@offleasharea.org or call us at 612-724-7372.

Dancers! Have you ever seen an RS show or been in an RS class and thought “I wanna do that!”? If the answer is yes, come to our Community MoveTogether Sunday, August 6 from 7:00-9:00pm at Young Dance! We’re hoping this can be a low-to-no pressure way for us to get to know YOU better and for you to move with US as we look forward to upcoming projects, seeing whose out there and interested while offering the community a free class opportunity.

No pre-registration necessary: just show up with an open heart and ready to GROOVE with other neat humans!

MoveTogethers are our version of a company class, but more collaborative – within these classes, there are opportunities to improvise in solo and social ways, to manipulate material offered by RS Artstic and Executive Director Erinn Liebhard, and to build and manipulate your own material based around jazz and American social dance-inspired prompts!

Wanna get your leg up on this chance to see and be seen? Come to our other summer MoveTogethers, which are just $10.00 paid via cash or Venmo after class. Drop in on Mondays, 3:00-4:30pm. June 5 at The Cowles Center and June 12, July 17 and July 31 at Young Dance.

We hope to groove with you at a MoveTogether or two (or five)!

For events taking place between June 18, 2023 and August 31, 2025
Application period: May 8-August 15, 2023

Curated rentals form a crucial part of Red Eye’s model, offering an opportunity for artists to self-produce a performance in a supportive environment. The rental program allows the space to function as a resource to the Twin Cities performance community, to expand our community beyond our programming capacities, and to foster sustainability for the organization.

The curated rentals program is primarily intended for public-facing events and productions of live performances. We prioritize rentals of 10 days or longer, but any projects of a week or more fall into this category.

Note: We are offering a 10% discount for rentals in July and August 2023!

Ananya Dance Theatre seeks an experienced Production Manager, with a heart for social justice, on an ongoing basis to coordinate and run the technical aspects of our dance theatre performances and workshops, at home and on tour. We are ready to build a recurring annual relationship that can grow with the company’s needs and the successful candidate’s desires for their future. 

Annual Schedule and Rate:

• Extended collaborative creation of new work: January-September.
• Annual premiere of approximately 90-minute work: September/October (in Saint Paul).
• Entire company on break: December of each year.
• Ongoing touring engagements: January-November. Likely 2-3 engagements over the course of the year. Most engagements will be 3-5 days, though one might be a week or more. Touring opportunities are always emerging, though we always have 2-3 months’ notice minimum, and we work through our company members’ non-ADT commitments.
• Estimated annual hours (to be scheduled as needed, heavily weighted towards September, includes touring): 300
• This is an hourly “Work For Hire” annual contract. Rate is $25/hour commensurate with experience. Touring rate is $150/day (expenses paid by ADT).

Duties include:

• Scheduling and facilitating meetings with designers/collaborators during extended collaborative process (January-September, annually).
• Attending occasional rehearsals to be familiar with the work and facilitate the details of collaborative decisions. Occasional in January to fully engaged in September. Rehearsals are evenings and weekends at our studio in Saint Paul, except for tech week.
• Representing ADT to work effectively with venue production crews at the O’Shaughnessy for the premiere and on tour.
• Calling or running lights/sound/backstage for performances. Dependant on venue – some provide staff, others may require you to run Qlab yourself. While you will not need to program lighting, sound, or video cues, you may need to troubleshoot. Annual Fall premiere at the O’Shaughnessy and intermittent touring throughout January-November.
• Coordinating and communicating schedule and logistics including transportation and lodging for all live engagements to dancers, venue/community host, technical staff, etc.
• Our next full production is MICHHIL AMRA!: WE ARE THE PROCESSION!, premiering September 22-23, 2023 at The O’Shaughnessy at Saint Catherine University. This work is currently in creation/rehearsal.

Requirements:

• Basic knowledge of Qlab.
• Experience with calling and running a live performance in dance, theatre, multidisciplinary, corporate events, etc.
• Basic management experience, including motivating, problem-solving, and delegating.
• Demonstrated ability to manage complex schedules and needs among 7-10 artist collaborators plus 12 company dancers.
• Demonstrated ability to communicate effectively verbally and in writing.
• Nimble mind; the ability to project calm into complex and time-pressured situations such as during live performances; a joyful work ethic.
• Full availability for tech week and the premiere of MICHHIL in September 2023.
• Available to tour internationally during the week following the premiere, September 27-October 6.

Cherry on top:

• Experience and/or leadership in social justice community work.
• Strong interpersonal management experience.
• Background in anti-racist, anti-misogyny, and liberation work.
• Background and/or demonstrated interest in dance.
• Bachelor’s degree (in any field).
• Current driver’s license.
• Current passport and international travel experience.

Ananya Dance Theatre is committed to the full community inclusion of all people who live at all intersections of identity and experience; this role does not assume the absence of disability. If this role speaks to you, we strongly encourage you to apply.

Ananya Dance Theatre is a company of BIPOC women and femme artists who create original dance theatre at the intersection of artistic excellence and social justice. We premiere one major new work annually with original music and offer workshops, dialogues, classes, and performances at home and on tour. We call audiences to join us in movement, dialogue, and action driven by shared humanity. Our work invites audiences to participate in our strategy of #occupydance, the movement of dancing as civic action. We conjure dance as a liberatory practice, a methodology for a just world, and a space where BIPOC women and femmes can belong and thrive. For more information, please visit our website www.ananyadance.org.

Please express your interest with the following:

• A one-page letter detailing your relevant experience and interest in the role.
• A resume (if available; if not, a chronological list of your experiences).
• Please respond to Jennie Ward, Managing Director (she/her) at jennie.ward@ananyadancetheatre.org. Please put “ATTN: PROD MGR” in the subject line. Review of submissions will continue until the position is filled.

Join the ACA team!

Have you ever wanted to make an impact in the artist residency field? We are hiring for three roles that will make a difference at Artist Communities Alliance!

Senior Communication Manager: Implement and oversee all communications both internal and external at the Artist Communities Alliance. This role supports ACA’s strategic and programming goals through the production of advocacy alerts, monthly newsletters, digital content and event marketing.

External Affairs Coordinator: Support the Managing Director of External Affairs and provide administrative support to the entire External Affairs department.

Executive Assistant/Strategic Initiatives Coordinator: Reporting directly to the President and CEO, the Executive Assistant provides executive support in a one-on-one working relationship. The Executive Assistant serves as the primary point of contact for internal and external constituencies on all matters pertaining to the Office of the President.

We are dedicated to hiring a culturally diverse and pluralistic board and staff, particularly devoted to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals to be considered for employment. Applicants are considered without regard to race, color, religion, sex, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status or genetic information. ACA is resolute in providing access, equal opportunity and accommodation for individuals in its employment, services, programs and activities. People of color and individuals with disabilities are strongly encouraged to apply.

Applications are open until May 19, 2023. Don’t miss the chance to submit your resume!

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
At Collide Theatrical
Sign Up

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

Apply to be Ballet Co.Laboratory’s 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, ages 11-20, at The School of Ballet Co.Laboratory.

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 story line 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.

Get all the details!