Casting 2 Males: Performer/Actor/Dancers for Narrative Movement Film

Gabrielle lansner & company, a critically acclaimed dance/theater/film company is casting two male Performers with acting, dancing and/or movement training for a new film project based on THE BIRCH GROVE, a short novella by Jaroslaw Iwaszkiewicz, an preeminent Polish writer.

This will be a collaborative development process to create the work and movement. Strong dance/movement technique, ability to improvise and collaborate and a background in theater and the Viewpoints helpful. Emotionally expressive performers.

Characters are two brothers:

Stas: mid 20’s, fragile/lean build, extrovert, full of life, charming, elegant.

Boleslaw: early 30’s: rugged, brooding, introverted, sitting in grief.

Paid Rehearsals :Feb. 26 – April 26

Tues &Friday: 12 – 3pm

Thursday: 1 – 4pm

Additional Rehearsal period in Mid-May

Filming TBA in summer

Please send a resume and we will contact you about the audition if we are interested in meeting you.

Email:gabrielle_lansner_company@yahoo.com

www.gabriellelansner.com

THE BIRCH GROVE is the story of two brothers who reunite after not seeing each other for many years. The younger brother, Stas, comes to visit his brother after spending time in a sanitorium in Switzerland. He has come home to die. His older brother is a forester who is recently widowed and consumed by work. As the story unfolds we witness the connection that both brother’s have to love and death and how they are transformed by their last meeting.