Archive: Auditions, Jobs, and Open Calls

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!

Ballet Co.Laboratory is looking for versatile and accomplished classically trained dancers with partnering and pointe experience for our 2023/24 performance season. In addition to paid dance contracts, company members are paid to develop arts administration skills in efforts to develop the whole dancer.

Position and Contract Details

• 34 to 36-week contract beginning Fall 2023
• Paid Apprentice and Company Artist positions for 2023/2024 season
• Health and wellness perks – PT, massage, personal training, nutrition, shoes for the season, etc.
• Collaborative company coaching and creating with professional Rehearsal Assistants
• Classical and contemporary work
• Story ballets with original narratives
• New studios with natural light, showers, gender-neutral restrooms, and staff lounge
• Artist-driven organization

Seeking artists who are collaborative, creative, eager to learn, willing to grow on the job, and interested in all aspects of an arts administration.

For more information, including how to apply, visit: https://www.balletcolaboratory.org/company-auditions

Crude Tuesday is a new open performance platform for dance, movement, and experimentation. It is a space for community, spontaneous expression, love, and freedom. We host it on the unceded land of the Dakota and Anishinaabe people, and we are grateful for their stewardship of this land throughout the centuries and into the present day.

Crude Tuesday takes place on the third Tuesday of every month on the small but incredibly charming stage at Bryant Lake Bowl. Our next performance and gathering-date is March 21, and we still have some space left in the lineup for a few more performances.

We accept any kind of performance that explores movement. If you want to come and improvise on stage or show us a work-in-progress; if you are an experienced dance-maker or if you’d like to try performing for the first time, we welcome you. We ask only that you keep your performance time under 15 minutes.

Our first edition in February was a really sweet time, filled with joy, surprise, and inspiration.

Send an email to zoeque15@gmail.com and kendallmkramer@gmail.com if you’re interested, if you have any questions, or if you’d like to get involved. In order for us to be able to continue hosting this event, we need community involvement and support! You can also follow our new Instagram page @crudetuesdaympls

With much love,
Zoe and Kendall

Ray Terrill Dance Group is currently mobilizing for presenting the upcoming 21st Annual Dances at the Lake Festival – occurring at the Lake Harriet Rose Garden in Minneapolis. The two free, open to the public concerts will be presented on July 14 and 15, 2023, 7:00pm.

Professional individual artists, adult and youth companies are encouraged to submit a proposal for consideration. All forms of dance welcome. Work must be inclusive and family friendly. These outdoor performances are performed on grass.

Submit your proposal via email to raymond.d.terrill@msn.com by March 19.

Please include:

• link to dance company website or artist bio
• description of planned dance (seven minutes or less)
• number of dancers involved
• link to sample video of work (preferably of the dance to be performed).

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 26 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 May 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.

The ideal candidate is someone who is committed to the company, where there is room to grow in several directions. Seeking a resourceful and inclusive person, with strong critical reasoning and problem-solving skills. Strong customer service skills and proficiency in all Microsoft Office computer programs is a must (we have Mac computers). This person will report to the Studio Manager but must be able to work independently as well.

15-20 hours per week: Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday from 8:30am-2:00pm; and 2 hours on Friday (flexible before 4:00pm).

Hourly rate based on experience, beginning at $15/hour, and will be based on competency following a 3-month trial.

Paragon is a welcoming, energetic, and dynamic workplace with room for growth.

Please email your resume and letter of intent to cari@paragonpilatespt.com.

2023/2024 Apprentice Program running 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 daily technique class with the Company, have an opportunity to perform in a Collide show, and participate in an Apprentice showcase at the end of the year.

The daily 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 quarterly 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:
Sunday, April 16
3:00-5:00pm 
Sign up here.

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

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!