Archive: Auditions, Jobs, and Open Calls

Off-Leash Area’s new community program, Off-Kilter Cabaret, is designed to highlight and support artists with disabilities. Seven artists will be selected by a panel of leaders in the disability community to perform their works in the inaugural Off-Kilter Cabaret. The theme of this year’s Cabaret is “Organ Recital,” which we hope will provoke artists to propose risky, unapologetic, and entertaining performances using their body organs and systems as inspiration.

The Off-Kilter Advisory Group and Selection Panel are: writer and storyteller Amy Salloway, former VSA Executive Director Jon Skaalen, dance artist Mike Cohn, host of the Disability and Progress program on KFAI Sam Jasmine, and Off-Leash Area co-artistic directors Paul Herwig and Jennifer Ilse.

The Off-Kilter Cabaret will be presented in the outdoor rail court at the Mill City Museum on August 19, 20, and 22. Locally known as the site of the Mill City Farmers’ Market, Off-Leash Area will construct an accessible elevated stage with full lighting, sound, and projection capability, and retain the steampunk vibe of the reclaimed industrial site. We will require physically distanced seating, masks, and other protocols using CDC and state COVID guidelines at the time of the performances as the minimum baseline for requirements.

Artist Proposals: We are looking for live performances, 5-10 minutes in length, original and unique, challenging and provoking.

The Call for Proposal Form will be publicly available on the Off-Leash Area website on May 20. 

Applications due by June 14.

Questions can be sent to Paul Herwig at offleash@offleasharea.org.

Join us on Saturday, May 22 to get a taste of the Young Dance performing company.

Introductory Workshop/Audition, 11:45am-12:45pm
For dancers ages seven through 18 of all abilities and all levels of experience.
This session will include an introduction about the company with current company members, and a workshop led by incoming Artistic Director, Anat Shinar.

Following the workshop at 12:45pm, Executive Director Gretchen Pick will hold a Q&A for interested participants.

The audition will be held as hybrid. Participants can attend in-person at Young Dance or online through Zoom.

The Young Dance Performing Company is a group of passionate dancers committed to exploring themselves and their world through dance. Young Dance company members take dance classes, collaborate with professional choreographers, create dances themselves, and perform throughout the year. The company is open to dancers of all abilities and all levels of experience. We encourage anyone excited about dance to audition.

Register for the audition by emailing info@youngdance.org or calling 612-423-3064. Participants will then receive in-person or online Zoom meeting information.

Five paintings will be chosen to be used by our dancers on stage.

All other submissions will be featured as part of our artist gallery at Como Lakeside Pavillion on June 5-6.

To enter the contest, bring your 16 x 20″ vertical canvas creation to the Ballet Co.Laboratory studios by Friday, May 28. All artist creations will be returned after the production.

For questions, contact us at info@balletcolabortory.org or 651.313.5967.

Send in your Video Audition now for our Spring Into Summer Workshop, July Full Day Summer Intensive, AND our August Grand Prix Solos and Variations Intensive. Video auditions accepted until June 1!

June Spring Into Summer Workshop: June 7-25. Featuring Progressing Ballet Technique®. Intermediate/advanced through professional. Recommended ages: 11-26 years old.

July Full-Day Intensive: July 6-24. An exciting and rigorous ballet-based dance program featuring Artistic Directors Denise and Rick Vogt with master and guest teachers and classes in a variety of dance genres!

August Grand Prix Intensive: August 10-21. A focused ballet and variations workshop specializing in preparing dancers for performing or competing in national ballet competitions.

Our summer classes and programs will be structured to maximize safety and minimize health risks. Planned steps include limiting class size, staggering class times, continuing rigorous social distancing/sanitizing, and more.

An audition form is at our website: http://www.BalletRoyaleMN.org

Threads Dance Nexus is looking for dance teachers of diverse backgrounds to join our team for our Dance Connections Summer Intensive, July 19-30. The ideal candidate should be an experienced dance educator, with a deep commitment to social justice, equity, and a heart for building and maintaining community. We at the Threads Dance Nexus believe dance is for everyone, and seeks instructors who can help students connect dance to their communities and themselves. There is potential for additional work after the intensive and during our fall session.

Successful applicants must:

Be available during class times:
July 19-23: 9:00am-12:30 pm; 1:00-3:30pm and/or
July 26-30: 9:00am-12:30 pm; 1:00-4:30pm

Have ability/experience teaching Hip Hop (all ages)
Have ability/experience teaching Ballet (ages 4-6)
Have ability/experience teaching Modern (ages 7-10)

Our Dance Connections 2021 Summer Intensive includes developmentally appropriate movement classes in Ballet, Modern, Creative Movement, Composition/Choreography, Improvisation, and Hip Hop. We are especially eager for our students to experience the distinctive arts activism and dance history course that gives our summer intensive its name!

The Threads Dance Nexus is a brand new community hub that not only provides a home for the company but also strengthens the social fabric of our Minneapolis community through the connective power of dance.

Threads Dance Nexus strives to be an inclusive space where movers of any identity, age, or ability are welcome to participate in our dance classes, yoga practice, community talks and other public events.

Please contact Rae at rcharlesharge@threadsdance.org for more information on how to apply. Deadline to apply is May 7, 2021.

Meadowlark
Call for performers for weekly outdoor, site-specific promenade performances in June, Sundays, 6:00-7:00pm. Unpaid. Please contact me if you are interested in “performing” or trying out material in Bryn Mawr Meadows.

What: Audiences stroll past works of art (music, dance, spoken word, aerial, visual 2D/3D art works) created and performed live in the natural and urban setting of one of Minneapolis’s lesser-known parks (set to be renovated in 2022).

When: Four Sundays in June, 6:00-7:00pm (or whatever you can firmly commit to)

Who: Local professional artists and novices

I am revisiting “Fluxus” and my first performances in 1993, moving from NYC to MPLS- (Walker Art Center’s Flux-Arena-Rama).  I am starving for culture, in-person, if distanced performance, a heightened sense of moving through and out from these wobbly times, where we can connect safely, casually, potentially without masks, with some joy. Please be vaccinated and game.

We are accepting video auditions for our Spring Into Summer Workshop, June 7-25; July Full Day Summer Intensive, July 6-24; AND our August Grand Prix Solos and Variations Intensive, August 10-21. 

Video auditions accepted until June 1!

June Spring Into Summer Workshop: Featuring Progressing Ballet Technique®. Intermediate/Advanced through Professional. Recommended ages: 11-26 years old.

July Full-Day Intensive: An exciting and rigorous ballet-based dance program featuring Artistic Directors Denise and Rick Vogt with master and guest teachers and classes in a variety of dance genres!

August Grand Prix Intensive: A focused ballet and variations workshop specializing in preparing dancers for performing or competing in national ballet competitions.

Our summer classes and programs will be structured to maximize safety and minimize health risks. Planned steps include limiting class size, staggering class times, continuing rigorous social distancing/sanitizing, and more.

An audition form is at our website: http://www.BalletRoyaleMN.org

Choreographers Berit Ahlgren and Helen Hatch seek dancers for a new ensemble work that will premiere at the second annual Live @ The Shed, taking place August 6-8, 2021.

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 individuals who are creative, collaborative, and expressive. Live @ The Shed also supports work-in-progress by cast members. Opportunities for dancers in the project to share their own work will be encouraged as part of the final performances.

Audition: May 2, 2021, 12:00pm-4:00pm at Saint Paul Ballet. Time slots will be assigned following registration and confirmed through email by Friday, April 30. 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.

Rehearsals will begin in May (full schedule sent as part of agreement), and will include optional class before scheduled rehearsal times.

Performance Dates: August 6-8, 2021. Five performances. We will be following the CDC guidelines at the time of the performances in regards to mask requirements, social distancing and audience caps.

Compensation: $800

To register, please fill out this form by April 30, 2021: https://forms.gle/pUgG7EteXuMruGSq9

Apprentice positions available. If you’d like to be considered, please note that on registration.

This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund.