Archive: Auditions, Jobs, and Open Calls

Threads Dance Project Comany Audition

Saturday, August 6
Registration: 12:30-1:00pm
Audition: 1:00-3:00pm

Seeking dancers for 2022-23 Season. Dancer contracts begin August 15, 2022

Threads Dance Project is seeking a racially/ethnically diverse group of dancers ages 21 and older. Men, women, and dancers with diverse gender identities are encouraged to apply.  Threads is seeking versatile dancers that are quick learners and are fluent in a variety of dance forms.

Virtual audition format is available upon request. Please email kchrist@threadsdance.org ASAP and send materials via email by Friday, July 29, 2022.

Dancers are encouraged to register by Wednesday, August 3, 2022, and upload a headshot and resume via this Google form.

Space will be limited to adhere to CDC Covid Guidelines and masks will be strongly encouraged inside the Nexus and during the audition.

Threads Dance Nexus offers free parking and free side street parking, is a 5-minute walk from the Franklin Light Rail Station, and a 2-5 minute walk from the nearest bus stops (lines 2, 9, 22, 67).

Please direct questions regarding the audition to Karen Christ Aalgaard: kchrist@threadsdance.org, (641) 512-7376

Seeking Paid Extras for Dance Film – Deadline

REFUGE a film by Jennifer Arave

Shoot date is August, 14 in Northeast Minneapolis

Set 100 years in the future, REFUGE contemplates a radically changed world after environmental and technological collapse. The world’s citizens have become climate nomads forced to leave their homes in search of new places where they can find shelter, food, water, and safety. In this world, the nomads can only travel by night, wearing hoods to shield them from the errant satellites still signaling to the digital implants within their brains.

Casting 15-20 extras for the dance film REFUGE. No dance experience is necessary, but a plus. Must be comfortable with active daily movements (walking, arms above your head, laying on the ground). Okay to adapt movement for disability. Looking for diverse representations of identities. Various gender identities, ages 18 and up. Older ages 55-80, BIPOC, a variety of body types, abilities, cultural and national identities are very much encouraged to apply.

See here for more info about REFUGE.

Audition Notice: 50th Anniversary of Choreographers’ Evening – Deadline

The Walker Art Center and guest curators Judith Howard and Alanna Morris are seeking Minnesota dance makers working in all forms to present their work as part of Choreographers’ Evening on Saturday, November 26, 2022.

For more than 50 years, this annual showcase has been a highly anticipated event, featuring a diverse array of Minnesota dance makers of all ages and genres, offering an exciting glimpse into our vibrant dance community.

Audition Information:

  • Choreographers must live in Minnesota.
  • Works should not exceed seven minutes.
  • Ensembles are welcome to audition.
  • Works-in-progress are accepted.
  • Live auditions are preferred; however, video submissions will be accepted.
  • Please audition with the same work that you would like to present.

Deadline to submit a video audition or sign up for a live audition is August 15.

Please review the full audition information (including a note from the curators) on the Walker website: wlkr.art/CE-50th-Audition

Ballet Royale: Pre-Professional Program and Professional Division Auditions

Ballet Royale’s new Pre-Professional Program provides students with an even more rigorous and demanding training schedule, designed and created for students striving towards a professional or post-secondary dance career. Building on the ongoing success of Ballet Royale’s elite Professional Division program, the Pre-Professional program expands these opportunities to students of all ages—not just the highest levels.

Ballet Royale’s Professional Division is an elite day training program that provides a comprehensive advanced course of study for advanced, talented, and ambitious students. Students accepted in this program have demonstrated commitment and dedication, are at the highest technical and artistic level, and are approaching and preparing for a post-secondary or professional career. Select Professional Division students may be invited to dance as Student Trainees with the professional ballet company, Twin Cities Ballet.

August 20
Ages 7 and up

Admission and acceptance into the Pre-Professional Program and Professional Division is by audition and invitation only.

Please visit our website here to register and for more information.

Momentary Certainties Dance Performance Opportunity – Deadline

The Eagan Art House invites you to submit original choreographic works to be performed as part of the opening event of Momentary Certainties 2022, an outdoor visual art installation which examines the intertwined themes of ephemerality and permanence. Works should reflect on the themes of the exhibition:

On ephemerality: The nature of performance is ephemeral, “something that lasts a very short time.” Can you consider impermanence in your movement? How do you represent fragility or decay? What does it mean to perform in the landscape which is ever-changing?

On permanence: In these unpredictable times, how do the ideas of steadiness and strength inform your work? How can dance be a stabilizing presence? Consider constancy (of love, of nature) in your movement.

Works should be 5-20 minutes long and will be performed 1-2 times over the course of the event. The performance location is outside, on grass lawn.

Entry details in link.

ARENA DANCES – Call for Teaching Artists

ARENA DANCES is seeking 6-9 part-time teaching artists for K-12 students, during school and after school DanceON programs.

Contracts are for Fall 2022, September-December.
Pay is $50-$75/hr; dependent on time commitment in accordance with the school’s committed schedule.
No prior experience of teaching dance in schools necessary, ARENA DANCES will assist in curriculum and guidance as needed.
Free or paid training will be supplied accordingly.

To inquire, please send an email to Artistic Director, Mathew Janczewki’s attention of your interest with a resume attached.

Threads Dance Project Company Audition

Saturday, August 6
Registration: 12:30-1:00pm
Audition: 1:00-3:00pm

Seeking dancers for 2022-23 Season. Dancer contracts begin August 15, 2022.

Threads Dance Project is seeking a racially/ethnically diverse group of dancers ages 21 and older. Men, women, and dancers with diverse gender identities are encouraged to apply.  Threads is seeking versatile dancers that are quick learners and are fluent in a variety of dance forms.

Dancers are encouraged to register by Wednesday, August 3, 2022, and upload a headshot and resume via the google form provided: Register!

Virtual audition format is available upon request. Please email kchrist@threadsdance.org ASAP and send materials via email by Friday, July 29, 2022.

Space will be limited to adhere to CDC Covid guidelines, and masks will be strongly encouraged inside the Nexus and during the audition. Threads Dance Nexus offers free parking and free side street parking, is a 5-minute walk from the Franklin Light Rail Station, and a 2-5 minute walk from the nearest bus stops (lines 2, 9, 22, 67).

Please direct questions regarding the audition to: Karen Christ Aalgaard – kchrist@threadsdance.org, (641) 512-7376

REFUGE: Seeking Paid Extras for Dance Film

REFUGE a film by Jennifer Arave

Set 100 years in the future, REFUGE contemplates a radically changed world after environmental and technological collapse. The world’s citizens have become climate nomads forced to leave their homes in search of new places where they can find shelter, food, water, and safety. In this world, the nomads can only travel by night, wearing hoods to shield them from the errant satellites still signaling to the digital implants within their brains.

Casting 15-20 extras. No dance experience necessary, but must feel comfortable with active daily movements (walking, lifted arms, laying on the ground). Okay to adapt movement for disability. Looking for diverse representations of identities. Seeking various gender identities, ages 18+. Especially seeking ages 55-80. Variety of racial, cultural, national identities, body types, and varied abilities are encouraged to apply. Send photo and bio to groundbreakerlabs@gmail.com.

More information available here.

Part-Time Dance Project Manager

The Walker Art Center is seeking a part-time, temporary Independent Project Manager to join the Walker’s Performing Arts team for the 2022-23 Performing Arts Season. This position will manage three performance-based projects, with a focus primarily on dance. This is a one-year position with the possibility of extension to a second year.

For the three assigned projects, the Independent Project Manager will work closely with artists and/or artist managers, Performing Arts staff, and other Walker colleagues as necessary to:

  • create and execute performance contracts;
  • manage all project schedules, logistics, and itineraries;
  • manage artistic issues (in consultation with Director/Senior Curator);
  • manage project-specific community engagement and/or residency activities;
  • track project budgets and reconcile project financials;
  • write grant reports as applicable;
  • contribute to marketing, public relations, and visitor services efforts;
  • and participate in relevant meetings, as needed.

TU Dance: CUL•TI•VATE, A Trainee Program

CUL·TI·VATE, A Trainee Program: curated encounters (in and outside the dance studio) designed to support and strengthen the total dance artist, advancing their physical, emotional, and cognitive growth, agility, and acumen. Rooted in TU Dance’s vision of transformational communities, CUL·TI·VATE nurtures artistic excellence and the development of intellectual curiosities and moral character, finely tuned to ignite flourishing communities committed to shared humanity.  -Dr. Carol Marie Webster, PhD

Inspired by the next generation of dance artists, CUL·TI·VATE is a program designed as a bridge for dancers with advanced training between their educational perspective and envisioning themselves in the professional field. Through classes, workshops, choreographic processes, mentorship, community engagement, teaching, performance and more, dancers will connect and share experiences as a collective as well as expressing and gaining momentum towards their individual interests and goals beyond their time in the program. CUL·TI·VATE will embrace and support each dancer while fostering their unique artistic path centered in TU Dance’s values of excellence, belonging, creativity and transformation.

Age range: 18-24

To audition:
Interested dancers are strongly encouraged to attend the TU Dance Summer Intensive Level 4 or 5, July 25-August 13, 2022. Enrollment for single weeks is available. Scholarships available!

If unable to attend the Summer Intensive, please email the following to laurel.keen@tudance.org by August 15, 2022:

  • Resume and Cover Letter expressing your interest and goals for participating in CUL·TI·VATE.
  • Performance Reel: 3 minutes max and may include studio or performance footage which clearly shows the individual instead of group work.
  • An in-person or virtual meeting may be scheduled as part of the audition process.

Dancers will receive notification of their acceptance into the CUL·TI·VATE program by August 29, 2022.

CUL·TI·VATE Interest/Questions: For any questions about the program, and to let us know if you are taking the TU Dance Summer Program as part of the audition, please email: laurel.keen@tudance.org.