Thea Little, choreographer, performer, music composer, musician, and director is holding an audition on Tuesday August 8 from 1-5pm. Call back will be on Thursday August 10 from 10-2pm. Make sure to be available for the call back in case you are invited. See below for set rehearsal times and performance day. Please come to the audition only if you can make those set rehearsal and performance times.

Thea is looking for dancers and performers of all genders, sexual orientations, and ethnicities to join her dance-theater/site-specific work to be performed for Chez Bushwick in Brooklyn, NY during the BOS Bushwick Open Studios. We will perform for 1-2 hours alongside 3 other choreographers that Chez Bushwick has invited to be on a path that connects Chez Bushwick with visual art studios in Bushwick. 

Dancers and performers will be exploring characterizations, facial expressions and gestures and investigating the topic of ambition in a satirical way. A big plus is if the performers can sing in key and hold melodies with other notes being sung. It is not necessary to be formally trained in music! We will be working with small-sculpture props created by visual artist Niki Singleton. Dancers and performers must also be interested in learning set choreography and song composition as well as being experienced in experimenting with movement, text, and song improvisation. There is also a possibility to continue working on this project in the future.

Rehearsals will be for 6 weeks and will begin promptly after the call back. They will be from: 

Tuesday August 15th to Thursday September 21st

There will be twice a week rehearsals:

Tuesdays: 6-10pm 

Thursdays: 10-2pm

A few weeks will be 7 hours per week and a few will be 8 hours.

Performance: Saturday September 23rd sometime between 1-8pm. We will know the exact times closer to the event yet please keep the day open.

Audition: Tuesday August 8 1-5pm

Call Back: Thursday August 10 10-2pm

Please RSVP to the audition at Thea_Little@yahoo.com and she will tell you the location. Please send resume, photo, and any performance links you may have. 

Please view Little’s website, links to performances and bio to see if this is the right project for you before contacting her at Thea_Little@yahoo.com.

Thea Little, born and raised in NYC, is a performer, choreographer, musician, composer, and director. She investigates the hybrid of performance art and dance-theater with solo  and group works performed in theaters, museums, galleries, tennis courts, gardens, courtyards and trolleys. Little has presented throughout the United States, Belgium, Austria, France, and England. Composing since age 5, she creates music for her own works as well as for other choreographers. Little has joined choreography residencies and fellowships with Lift Off/New Dance Alliance, Lanchonete in Brazil, Leimay, and The Field. She received her MFA in Dance from Hollins University/ADF and her BA in Dance from Columbia University, and she studied at the School of American Ballet for six years where she performed in many ballet productions with NYCB, ABT and The Royal Danish Ballet. In 2005 Little was Music Director to Shen Wei Dance Arts to teach Steve Reich’s intricate 43-minute score to the company to create the internationally-acclaimed Map for the Lincoln Center Festival. From 2013-2015 she performed in a dance-opera called Any Size Mirror is a Dictator with Panoply Lab and Lindsey Drury culminating in a five-week run at Momenta Art. Recently Little directed a sculpture-dance work Control Equinox in collaboration with artist Niki Singleton presented in the Beaux Arts Court of The Brooklyn Museum, Triskelion Theater, and NYU Engineering Lobby during the BEAT Festival 2016. Since 2013, Thea has co-directed and co-produced a multi-disciplinary arts residency in Lakeville, Ct called IMAR. She is currently developing and performing projects such as Successful and Post Election Therapy as well as collaborating with various performance groups. In June, Little presented her solo Successful at the Performance Mix Festival at University Settlement. Currently a return to composing music is a focus as well.