Archive: Auditions, Jobs, and Open Calls

As part of Dance Projects by ME’s 2023 Movement as Language program, five community members will join teaching staff and professional artists to collaborate on a new production at the Southern Theater June 16-17, 2023.

To be considered as a collaborating artist, register for and attend one of the three free Movement as Language workshops this April:

Workshop 1: April 14-15
CM’s Fitness and Dance
6706 Penn Ave S, Richfield, MN 55423
Day 1: Friday, April 14, 6:00-8:00pm
Day 2: Saturday, April 15, 12:30-3:30pm
Free street parking is available.
Register

Workshop 2: April 22-23
The Shawngrām Institute for Performance and Social Justice
1197 University Ave W, St Paul, MN 55104
Day 1: Saturday, April 22, 3:30-5:30pm
Day 2: Sunday, April 23, 10:30am-1:30pm
Limited free parking is available.
Register

Workshop 3: April 28-29
Zorongo Flamenco
3715 Minnehaha Ave S, Minneapolis, MN 55406
Day 1: Friday, April 28, 6:00-8:00pm
Day 2: Saturday, April 29, 3:00-6:00pm
Street parking is available on 37th Ave and surrounding streets.
Register

All workshop participants who are interested are invited to apply to join this creative process! These artist positions are paid. BIPOC, LGBTQ+, ESL, and community members with disabilities are encouraged to participate. No dance experience required.

Advanced ballet dancers aged 18 and up are invited to audition for Minnesota Ballet Collective! The Minnesota Ballet Collective is committed to empowering advanced ballet dancers by fostering artists’ creativity, collaboration, and passion. We seek to inspire our community through ballet’s storytelling ability and inherent beauty. The Minnesota Ballet Collective believes in the transformative power of dance and its positive impact on the community.

Audition
Saturday, April 29
5:00-7:00pm
At Platinum Dance Center
Sign up

Please wear ballet attire. Bring ballet shoes and pointe shoes.
Please bring a printed headshot and first arabesque shot.
Dancers are welcome to arrive up to 30 minutes early to warm up.
There is no audition fee.

TU Dance Center is seeking accompanists for Modern, Ballet, and African Dance classes!

Preferred times:
Mornings, 9:30-11:00am
Evenings, 4:30-9:00pm (any hours within timeframe)

Rate: $24/hour
Free parking.

If you or someone you know are interested, please contact info@tudance.org.

Thank you!

James Sewell Ballet (JSB) is seeking dancers for both project and full contract work in the 2023/24 season.

JSB currently consists of six dancers willing to challenge their physical limits, perform a range of emotions, and play with the boundaries of ballet. The company rehearses in Minneapolis, MN, and performs three full programs a year, in addition to other outreach and touring engagements. Choreographic and teaching opportunities regularly exist throughout the season.

Dancers well suited for this job will:

• Have excellent ballet technique and contemporary movement.
• Have strong improvisational skills, or minimally an eagerness to learn.
• Have good partnering knowledge and ability, including sustained overhead lifts for men and ability to weight-share for all.
• Enjoy teaching opportunities that include company classes and outreach with all ages.
• Be enthusiastic about actively participating in the creative process.
• Bring individual competitiveness and interest in growing as an artist, and excitement to be a part of a small, cooperative team.

JSB offers 26-30 week competitive contracts. Starting salary is no less than $700 per week for a full-contract position. The mission of James Sewell Ballet is to transform dance, artists, and audiences through rich collaboration, education, and equitable opportunities.

Audition is by invitation only. To be considered, please send your resume, headshot, and a video link to deirdre@jsballet.org.

Call for dancers in the Twin Cities!

I am producing a show for the Minnesota Fringe Festival this summer.

Looking for 3-4 dancers with performance experience to reset previously created modern dance work and well as create a new piece. Must be available August 3-12.
Stipend and percentage of box office for performances.

Please reach out to marywillmeng@gmail.com to express interest, ask questions and tell me about yourself.

Hi Everybody,

We are Crude Tuesday, an open performance platform and community gathering-space for dancing, movement, and experimentation. Phew, that was a mouthful.

We are welcoming people who want to perform as well as actively looking for people who want to perform. You can do whatever you want – a work-in-progress, an improvisation, a solo, a duet, anything, so long as movement is an aspect of it. The stage is small (9×22), but the theater is cute and you can eat chili and drink kombucha and bowl and other fun stuff. It’s a fun place, and it’s also so amazing and special to witness each performer in their uniqueness.

If you want to perform, please don’t hesitate to contact us and sign up for a slot. Sometimes, all an artist needs is a deadline and a little bit of courage!

The next dates are Tuesdays, April 18; May 30; June 20; and July 18.

We want this to be a supportive community-space: if you need help talking through your idea, finding rehearsal space, or anything else to help you get up onto that stage, please reach out to us! No need to be shy, this is what we want to do.

If you want to provide support, please do! Support can look like providing valuable resources to performers and aspiring performers; providing mentorship; spreading the word; and encouraging friends and fellow citizens to perform if they want to, whatever ‘performance’ means to them (it can mean many things). Reach out if you want to provide support through Crude Tuesday specifically or if you’re looking for a way to help.

You can contact us via email: zoeque15@gmail.com and kendallmkramer@gmail.com or Instagram: @crudetuesdaympls

Two-day audition process blending modern, contemporary, and improvisational skills. We encourage you to attend both days, but it is not required.

Saturday, March 25, and Sunday, March 26 from 12:00-3:00pm

Auditioning for two project ensembles:

• ARENA DANCES seeks experienced dancers with strong technical, artistic, and creative abilities for Erased Steps.

• Choreographers Taja Will and Mathew Janczewski seek artists for a new “Merge” collaboration.

Erased Steps – ARENA DANCES’ artistic director, Mathew Janczewski, and fellow collaborators Dustin Haug, Leslie O’Neill, and Laura Selle Virtucio seek dancers for a new ensemble work of 12-15 dancers that will premiere August 24 and 25 at Union Depot in St. Paul and tour to Rochester, MN to perform August 19 at the Rochester Civic Center. Professional dancers of all ages, backgrounds, and experiences are encouraged to apply. Applicants will be asked to improvise, as well as learn phrase work. We are looking for diverse performers who are creative, collaborative, and expressive. Must be available starting June to August, 2023. Rehearsals to be determined amongst the ensemble.

“Merge” – Choreographers Mathew Janczewski and Taja Will seek dancers for a new ensemble work that will premiere in March 2024 on the Goodale Stage, at the Cowles Center. Taja (they/them), is a QTBIPOC, disabled artist whose process is rooted in a restorative justice pedagogy, healing, and disability justice foundations and proposes structured improvisation as a performance modality in a collaboratively authored process. Their studio ethos is one of emergence and care work, focus and rigor, ritual and magic. Will and Janczewski meet at their shared passion for witnessing one’s self-expression through movement and their longtime friendship for the creation of this new work.

Participants will be asked to engage with rigorous attention to improvisation as a technique and performance modality as well as to work collaboratively on spontaneous choreographic choice-making. Must be available for an intensive 3-week rehearsal process September-November, 2023, and again February-March, 2024. Rehearsals to be determined amongst chosen cast within time frame listed above. No call back required, will follow up with conversations via email.

You may audition for one or both projects. In-person auditions are given priority.
RSVP is appreciated; please do so by 5:00pm, Thursday, March 23 through this form.
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.

Compensation: Dancers are paid $20/hour for rehearsals and a flat performance run of $500.

Questions about Erased Steps? Please contact Mathew at arenadances@gmail.com.
Questions about “Merge” project? Please cc Mathew at arenadances@gmail.com and/or Taja at tajawill@gmail.com.

ARENA DANCES is seeking a short-term, project-based Box Office/Social Media Manager for our seventh annual CANDY BOX Dance Festival taking place at The Southern Theater, April 24-29.

$20/hour for an estimated 40 total project hours.

Responsibilities:

• Manage ShowTix4U ticket sales and reporting.
• Create social media content week of the show; with knowledge of reels, stories, posts, etc.
• Welcome guests and manage box office on-site during the run of the show (Thursday, April 27-Saturday, April 29 from 5:00-8:30pm, and Saturday, April 29 from 11:00am-3:00pm).

Skills:

• Must be social media savvy.
• Must have knowledge in Excel.

Please send inquiry to ARENA’s Artistic Director, Mathew Janczewski at arenadances@gmail.com by noon on Friday, March 24.

Twin Cities Ballet has two open company positions for our 2023/24 Season (one contract for male/male-identifying dancer, one for female/female-identifying dancer). Soloist and Principal level, competitive salaried position, 34-week season. Strong classical ballet, partnering, and contemporary skills required. You must be eligible to work in the United States. We also have limited openings for unpaid apprenticeships and student trainee positions for both male and female dancers.

Please submit the following audition materials by email to audition@TwinCitiesBallet.org. We will contact you after we have reviewed your audition materials to schedule an audition.

• Your resumé.
• Whether you are eligible to work in the United States.
• 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.

About Us
Twin Cities Ballet (TCB) is an independent, 501(c)(3) non-profit professional dance company that creates original full-length and shorter story ballets, a rare and nearly lost art, as well as more abstract contemporary ballet-based works. An emerging gem in the Twin Cities, TCB has carefully built a financially solid and growing organization that is making its mark both regionally and nationally through its creative and innovative artistic endeavors. Our mission is to connect and enrich communities by making ballet approachable, relatable, and fun, through professional and original productions and educational outreach.

TCB prohibits discrimination against any employee, applicant for employment, or patron because of race, color, national or ethnic origin, age, religion, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected under applicable federal, state, or local law.

DanceCo is returning to the stage after a three-year hibernation and is seeking kid-loving dancers for a fun, outdoor summer performance season! We produce original, interactive dance productions for young audiences and their families.

The choreography will range from jazz and ballet to body percussion and musical theater styles. Dancers must be expressive performers well versed in comic timing and comfortable engaging with young children. Choreography by Matthew Keefe and Karla Nweje. This summer’s relaunch, Dance Around Minnesota, features existing repertoire and new work built around our lovely state, its features, stories, and notable destinations. 

Rehearsals and performances are paid at a competitive rate. The initial rehearsal period will be scheduled on Sunday afternoons/evenings, with additional dates added as available and needed. 

All performances at 10:00am and 11:30am:
June 24 — Springboard for the Arts, 262 University Ave W. St. Paul
July 1 — Minnehaha Falls Pavilion, Minneapolis
July 8 — Raspberry Island, St. Paul
July 15 — Downtown Commons, Minneapolis

Audition
Sunday, April 2
2:00-4:00pm
Young Dance Studios

Studios open at 1:30pm for personal warmup.
Please bring your calendar.
For more information and any questions, please email info@DanceCoMN.com.

More information can be found at www.DanceCoMN.com.