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Artist Communities Alliance seeks Managing Director of External Affairs. Preferred start date, March 1, 2023.

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Full-time, remote position with benefits. Salary range $85,000-95,000/year. A typical work week is Monday-Friday, 9:00am-5:00pm ET with average 40 hour work week. Travel, nights and weekends required for special events, board and community meetings.

Apply: Submit your application package including a resume, cover letter, and 1-2 work samples. Cover Letter should address why this role is in alignment with your current goals and trajectory at this time, mission alignment, your core competencies, and what you will bring and gain from ACA. Please email your application packet to search@unlockcreative.org. Unlock Creative: Coaching & Management Solutions LLC is conducting this search. If you have any questions, please email Ashley Walden Davis at ashley@unlockcreative.org or call 404.236.6222. Label the email “ACA MD Search questions.” All applications and expressed interest in this position will remain confidential.

The Artist Communities Alliance (ACA) is an international nonprofit association, providing services to more than 400 organizational and individual members working in the field of artist residencies. Based in Providence, RI and operating fully remote, ACA conducts research about artist residencies, hosts field-wide discussions and professional development convenings, manages several grantmaking programs, offers consulting services, develops informational tools, and advocates on behalf of artist residencies and artists. Founded in 1991, ACA maintains a staff of 6-9 employees and a national/international Board of Trustees. We are an equal opportunity employer with a commitment to diversity in the workplace. We expect our staff to embody respect, independence, collaboration, commitment, anti-racism, and equity both in our outward-facing work and the internal culture of our workplace.

Young Dance is seeking teachers, assistants, and substitutes for 2022-23 and beyond. Teachers with experience in the following styles are encouraged to apply: Hip Hop, Jazz, Musical Theater, Afro-Modern, Modern/Contemporary, Ballet, Percussive, and Creative Movement. Experience working with dancers of all abilities is a plus, but not required.

Founded in 1987, we believe young people are artists with something important to say and that working across differences is a benefit to all. Our mission is to transform lives through movement. We are an inclusive community where creativity flourishes and healthy risk-taking is encouraged. Our classes are open to everyone of all levels and abilities. Participants enjoy our collaborative and student-led approach to dance education. Our curriculum emphasizes technique, improvisation, and choreography through the elements of dance: Body, Action, Space, Time, and Energy. Dancers develop skills in observing, participating, and reflecting in a safe and supportive environment that values a commitment to self, to the group, and to lifelong learning.

Pay rate: $48/hour for lead teaching, $24/hour for assisting.

Contact Anat Shinar, anat@youngdance.org, with a resume and brief introduction.

The Department of Theatre and Dance seeks a tenure-track, assistant, or associate professor in dance. Review of applications will begin February 1, 2023 and continue until the position is filled.

Required qualifications: Doctoral or terminal degree in MFA or PhD in Dance (if ABD, degree must be conferred on an official transcript and received in Human Resources by August 14, 2023); experience teaching in the college/university setting; experience teaching a variety of dance levels from novice to emerging young professionals; evidence of appropriate professional, creative and/or scholarly research activity in dance; demonstrated ability to serve a diverse population and apply an equity lens to this position including social justice and/or anti-racism.

AA/EOE and a member of the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities System. For complete notice of vacancy and application procedures, please click here.

Young Dance is seeking teachers, assistants, and substitutes for 2022-23 and beyond. Teachers with experience in the following styles are encouraged to apply: Hip Hop, Jazz, Musical Theater, Afro-Modern, Modern/Contemporary, Ballet, Percussive, and Creative Movement. Experience working with dancers of all abilities is a plus, but not required.

Founded in 1987, we believe young people are artists with something important to say and that working across differences is a benefit to all. Our mission is to transform lives through movement. We are an inclusive community where creativity flourishes and healthy risk-taking is encouraged. Our classes are open to everyone of all levels and abilities. Participants enjoy our collaborative and student-led approach to dance education. Our curriculum emphasizes technique, improvisation, and choreography through the elements of dance: Body, Action, Space, Time, and Energy. Dancers develop skills in observing, participating, and reflecting in a safe and supportive environment that values a commitment to self, to the group, and to lifelong learning.

Pay rate is $48/hour for lead teaching, $24/hour for assisting.

Contact Anat Shinar, anat@youngdance.org, with a resume and brief introduction.

Collide Theatrical Dance Company is looking to hire a box office attendant for the remaining two shows of our 2022-2023 season. SKOL is a full-length show that will be performed in March and April at the Southern Theater, and Our Stories is a cabaret performance at our St. Paul studio in May. For a full list of show dates and times, visit www.collidetheatrical.org/show-dates.

Duties include:

• checking in attendees
• marking reserved seating
• helping with set-up and take-down
• working with the Southern Theater’s box office staff
• other tasks as needed

Pay is $20/hour, with a four-hour minimum per show. Paid training. For each performance, the box office assistant needs to arrive two hours prior to the show (showtimes are generally 7:30pm Thursday-Saturday and 2:00pm and 5:00pm on Sunday).

Interested applicants should email a resume and cover letter to admin@collidetheatrical.org. Please only apply if you are able to commit to at least half of the dates for a show. Priority will be given to those who can be at every performance.

Calling movement instructors for young dancers!

Zenon Dance School provides instruction for dancers of all genders, orientations, abilities and levels of experience. A key part of our mission is providing quality dance classes for adult professional, community dancers, and youth in Minneapolis.

Zenon is seeking multiple new instructors to teach youth classes for our 2023 Winter Session. If you are passionate about working with young dancers and have experience teaching movement classes we would love to hear from you.

Winter Session: This is a contracted position from January 9-March 19, 2023 (ten weeks).

Seeking instructors to lead Creative Movement and various other technique forms between an age range of 3-14 years. Preferred class times: Sunday mornings/early afternoons.

Zenon is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, or age.

To express your interest in teaching with Zenon’s Youth Program for the Winter Session, please send a resume to Hunter Batterson, Zenon’s Youth and Outreach Coordinator, at hunter@zenondance.org by Friday, December 9. In your interest email, please also include your preferred movement styles and ages to teach, along with your ideal teaching rate.

Young Dance is seeking teachers, assistants, and substitutes for 2022-23 and beyond. Teachers with experience in the following styles are encouraged to apply: Hip Hop, Jazz, Musical Theater, Afro-Modern, Modern/Contemporary, Ballet, Percussive, and Creative Movement. Experience working with dancers of all abilities is a plus, but not required.

Founded in 1987, we believe young people are artists with something important to say and that working across differences is a benefit to all. Our mission is to transform lives through movement. We are an inclusive community where creativity flourishes and healthy risk-taking is encouraged. Our classes are open to everyone of all levels and abilities. Participants enjoy our collaborative and student-led approach to dance education. Our curriculum emphasizes technique, improvisation, and choreography through the elements of dance: Body, Action, Space, Time, and Energy. Dancers develop skills in observing, participating, and reflecting in a safe and supportive environment that values a commitment to self, to the group, and to lifelong learning.

Pay rate is $48/hour for lead teaching, $24/hour for assisting.

Contact Anat Shinar, anat@youngdance.org, with a resume and brief introduction.

Work with BCL!

Ballet Co.Laboratory is seeking an experienced accompanist, skilled in piano, to play for ballet classes. This is a part-time position, for which candidates must have at least 1-3 years experience accompanying ballet classes, as well as hold a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in music or equivalent experience.

The ballet accompanist selects and plays appropriate music for ballet technique classes. The accompanist shall choose and play at a moment’s notice music to match the tempo, meter, musicality, and length of various ballet exercises; and/or must be able to spontaneously compose/improvise to the movement appropriately. If you are primarily a reader, you should have some improvisational skill to accommodate instructions, extended endings and to edit/alter music (possibly in real time) to meet phrasing needs of given exercises.

This position is part-time, starting at $25/hour.

To learn more, head to our website, or contact us at info@balletcolaboratory.org.