Cie. Petra Zanki is looking for one male presenting and one female presenting dancer for the upcoming "Till It Tear Us Apart" dance production.

I am currently exploring negotiation between two or more bodies and how we relate to others.  As a starting point, I ask myself: What is the truest, purest and most basic form of human relating that I can observe, and that mirrors how capitalism negatively influences our human condition? I chose the need to connect and to be loved as a simple and relatable basic and universal truth. I am abstracting that truth, translating it into danced movement, to observe the various relating types created between two and more bodies and how systems in power condition and influence these relationships. I find inspiration in observing my surroundings: people  navigating magnetic fileds of various relationships in today's NYC, while holding onto what is dear and special: yearning to relate.

 

This work will require speed, athleticism, and lifting, so conditioning and strength, and strong contemporary, ballet or street/hip-hop combat dance techniques, with experience in partnering, is preferred. Dancers must be available for all rehearsals and performances and have a valid permit to work in the US (till at least June 2025 because of scheduled reprises and Spring performances). Must be comfortable learning from the video.

All candidates will be informed by October 9th.

Due to specific nature of group work, to be considered, dancers must be available for following rehearsal dates and performances:

Friday, October 11 - 10 am -2pm 

Monday, October 14 – 10 am – 1pm

Friday, October 18 – 10 am -1pm

Monday, October 21 – 10 am – 1pm 

Friday, October 25 – 10am -1 pm

Monday, October 28 – 10 am – 1pm 

Friday, November 1 10am –  2 pm 

Monday, November 4 – 10am -2pm

Friday, November 8 10am -2pm 

Monday, November 11 10 am – 2pm 

Friday, November 15 10am -2pm 

Monday, November 18 – 10 am -2pm 

Friday, November 22 – 10 am -2 pm 

Monday, November 25 -10 am -2 pm 

Monday, December 2  - 10am- 2 pm 

Wednesday December 4 - 10 am - 2pm

Thursday, December 5 – 10am -2 pm 

Friday, December 6 – 10 am -2 pm

Monday, December 9 – 10 am -  2pm

Tuesday, December - 10 - 2 pm  

Wednesday, December 11 - show

Thursday, December 12 - show

 

JANUARY 2025

January 11th – rehearsal 

January 12th – show 

March 9th 202, NYC - show

May 2025 (date to be defined), festival, NYC -show

 

Please send a resume and two videos to cie.petra.zanki@gmail.com to be considered.

BIPOC & LGBTQIA+ dancers are encouraged to apply.

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Cie. Petra Zanki is a working-class grassroots Brooklyn dance group where 90% of all production funds gathered go to pay the artists.

 

Petra Zanki is an award-winning immigrant choreographer, living in Brooklyn, NY.  She was granted multiple residencies across Europe, including a two-year choreographic scholarship from ICK-Amsterdam/Emio Greco and Croatian HIPP-TSP. Her works have been shown across Europe, the US, Canada, the UK, and Australia. In the US she presented her works in New York, Seattle, and New Orleans, among which at Movement Research at Judson Church, Coil13/PS122/Dixon place, La Mama, On the Boards, Seattle International Dance Festival, Estrogenius, PRELUDE and 3dollarbill. She is a current 2024 Brooklyn Arts Council Grant Awardee.  Petra graduated from MFA Choreography program at CODARTS University in Rotterdam in 2023. Growing up in Croatia during the war, her main interest remains the transformation of pain into landscapes of beauty for the benefit of humanity.

www.petrazanki.com

https://www.youtube.com/@petra_dances

IG: @petra.zanki