AUDITION: Dancers for PETRA ZANKI's new production
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 13th 2023
10 AM -2 PM (10 AM - 10:30 AM individual warm up, 10:30 AM -2PM Audition)

ABRONS ARTS CENTER
Abrons Studio G05
466 Grand St, New York, NY 10002

Looking for six dancers of all genders with strong techniques (either contemporary, ballet, afro-fusion, or hip hop), for the new dance project to premier outdoors on March 18th and 25th in the frame of the Estrogenius festival. The project will take place in Brooklyn. Possible further performance dates later in the year. Possibility to continue working with the choreographer on this and other works, in 2023 and 2024. Possibility of touring. Dancers must be open-minded towards different dance styles, comfortable learning movements quickly, and comfortable learning text/speak, as there will be textual parts to learn and perform.
This is a paid project.

PRESELECTION:
All dancers interested to attend the audition, please send resumes and links to 2 videos, youtube or Vimeo ( 3 mins dancing, 1-3 mins presenting yourself) to prophecyfor22century@gmail.com.

Preselected dancers will be invited to the audition.
All will be notified by February 5th.

The dancers must be available for the following rehearsals ( if they are not available to be on a few that’s ok, but they need to be present for the majority, especially for the last two weeks):

February 20th - 24th 10 AM -1 PM ( daily, Monday to Friday)
February 27th - March 3, 10AM -1 PM ( daily, Monday to Friday)
March  6 - March 10, 10 AM -1 PM ( daily, Monday to Friday)
March 12 - March 16, 10 AM -1 PM ( Sunday to Thursday)
March 17th  Friday General rehearsal - 10 AM -1 PM
March 18th call at 11:30 AM, Performance 1 PM
March 25 call 12PM, Performance 1 PM

(in case of rain, the performance is moved to Sundays 19th and 26th, same time)

Dancers who are interested in ecology, activism, healing practices, food justice, and possess a strong dance technique, curious in exploring the movement outside of their dance safety zones, and have an affinity for movement research, visual sensibility, and concept-thinking, are highly encouraged to apply.

CHOREOGRAPHER’S BIO:
PETRA ZANKI is an American-Croatian first-generation immigrant choreographer and dance maker who studied movement with renowned choreographers and performing artists such as Emio Greco, Jonathan Burrows, Bertha Bermudez, Patricia Bardi, Goat Island, Sjord Vreugdenhil (Forsythe Improv Technologies), Deufert & Plischke, and Gob Squad. In 2010 Petra was awarded the best Croatian choreographer at XI. The platform of Young Choreographers, and from 2011 to 2013 was artist-in-residence at the Zagreb Dance Center. In 2012 she was selected among six European choreographers to receive the two-year choreography scholarship SPAZIO from HIPP and The ICK- Amsterdam of Emio Greco. Her dance and theatre works were presented at festivals and venues across Europe, in the US, and Australia. In the US she collaborated with On The Boards, La Mama, Velocity, and PS122. She is currently finalizing her MFA in Choreography from CODARTS University - Rotterdam.

FROM/ABOUT THE PERFORMANCE: “Find and play with something that is common to us all, that we do not know the meaning of quite well, a mystery, a ritual, a game, as simple and intricate as friendship, a cat’s cradle, an ancient game, that does not colonize, a vessel, a starting point, and a basis, thought the sense of ecofeminism, and use alternative theories (rather than white andro theories) that include immigrant, BIPOC+ and LGBTQIA standpoints towards adductive and alternative epistemologies that always include various contexts, towards the ecology of mind and denouement of double bind, to heal and enjoy. “
http://www.petrazanki.com
https://velocitydancecenter.org/artists/petra-zanki/
https://www.extrofromestro.org/