Lîla Artists is casting 5 movement artists for their newest production, A SMOKESHOW, rehearsals to begin immediately. The work is an immersive burlesque show, part travesty, part parody, an interpretation of Samuel Becket’s "Waiting for Godot." The work will premier in early summer of 2020. All positions are PAID (stipend).

AUDITION by invitation only

Please send all your materials to lilaartistsmove@gmail.com by FEBRUARY 6th!

Please include a resume, headshot and 2 minute clip of you dancing. PLEASE DO NOT INCLUDE ANY REELS. These 2 minutes can be recorded on your phone and shot anywhere. This is for us to get a better sense of the kind of mover you are, and the sorts of choices you make. 

 

AUDITION: Mon, February 17th, 12-2pm at Arts On Site

CALLBACKS: Wed, February 19th, 12-2pm at Arts On Site

Lîla Artists use chance-based making as the driving forces in their work, utilizing improvisation, scores and text. 

We are interested in understanding the politics of pleasure, sexuality, failure, and power through our work. A SMOKESHOW employs a queer sensibility in its world building, where we will articulate what we feel, who we think we are in relationship to the world, and who the world thinks we are, together.

DESIRED REQUIREMENTS
-Comfortable working with improvisation
-Partnering skills encouraged 
-A willingness to explore and use your voice
-Commitment to the creative process
-Works well and respectfully with others 

Attendees will be asked to improvise in a group and solo context. Please also prepare a song to sing at the audition. 

PLEASE BRING:

-headshot and a performance and general resume
-a prepared song
-comfortable clothes to move in

 

START AND END DATES

Rehearsals will begin immediately following the auditions and run through the first week of July, 2020. 

REHEARSALS: 

Tuesday mornings 10-1pm

Thursday evenings 5-10pm

 

A SMOKE SHOW

is an accumulation of the work we have spent the last few years building and exploring. The piece is a look inside the queer history of American Dance, an excavation and rewriting of it’s archives contextualized inside our contemporary politics. It is reclaiming and reimagining a space in which Becket defined “universal” narratives while denying women, POC, and LGBTQIA communities access to playing his characters. A space the theater world and critics named as essential and important. It is a way for us to address some of the shortcomings of this legacy and what it represents. A lighthearted and heavy handed proposal to fill in the gaps and rewrite a story full of queer possibility. 

 

Lîla Artists is committed to inclusivity. We aim to create an inclusive work environment and work to actively embrace a diversity of people, ideas, talents, and experiences.

We strongly encourage people of color, individuals with disabilities, people of all sexual orientations and gender identities, and other historically underrepresented groups in our community to apply.

Lîla Aritsts prohibits discrimination and harassment based on race, color, religion, age, sex and pregnancy, citizenship status, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or marital/partnership status.