Hivewild is seeking dancers for our 2025 Season.

Hivewild is dedicated to the presentation of formal, site-specific, and public works that are rooted in the principles of radical inclusion and lifelong curiosity. Dancers can expect intensive contemporary phrase work, dynamic partnering, and gestural scene-building - all centered around telling stories of interconnectedness. 

In-person auditions are invite-only and will consist of contemporary class taught by Artistic Director Katherine Maxwell, followed by company rep & phrase material.

Invitation-Only Audition Dates: Thursday, March 13, 1:30-4 PM & Friday, March 14, 1:30-4 PM
Callbacks: Monday, March 17 at 2:30 PM
Location: Downtown Manhattan, full location disclosed upon confirmation
 

Submit your materials here to be considered for an in-person audition.

Submissions will be reviewed on a rolling basis. Applications will be accepted until Friday, March 7 at 11:59 pm, or until maximum capacity has been reached, whichever comes first. 

If you have any questions, please contact: info@hivewild.com.  

Please note: all Hivewild collaborators are required to hold September 1-14 as blackout dates for performances. Additional programming will be communicated by the production team as it is confirmed. 

About Hivewild
Hivewild exists to present movement as an affirmation of human value and emotion. Through the presentation of formal evening-length works, public works, site-specific projects, dance films, and situational encounters, Hivewild aims to act as a catalyst for movement, sensation, and interdisciplinary artistic exchange.

Founded in 2016 by Artistic Director Katherine Maxwell, Hivewild is a contemporary movement platform based on the unceded land of the Lenapehoking People (Brooklyn, NY). Hivewild is dedicated to the presentation of formal, site-specific, and public works that ignite conversation and unlock emotion, rooted in the principles of radical inclusion and lifelong curiosity. Endemic to each Hivewild work, and the processes that create them, are strong senses of dignity, interconnectivity, and playfulness. Hivewild is an invitation to experience, feel, and be - embodying a broader bandwidth of what it means to be alive. 

Members of Hivewild seek to invest in their communities by actively engaging in cross-disciplinary collaboration and skill-sharing. Every human has a body, and Hivewild uses this understanding as a starting point to identify connections and celebrate differences between people. Hivewild aims to use accessible performance work to engage a variety of viewers: artists, art enthusiasts, and those who have yet to experience contemporary dance work.

Hivewild performances feature elements of contemporary dance, gestural movement, and interpretive interplays between speech and sound. Creative narratives reject transactional relationships between artist and audience, in favor of a strong sense of empathy and curiosity. Audiences can expect to engage with artistic narrative that is sincere, guttural, earned, and fundamentally honest.
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About Katherine Maxwell - Founding Artistic Director & Choreographer
Creating work for the mainstage, alternative spaces, and for film, Katherine Maxwell (she/her) is a director, choreographer, and the founding Artistic Director of Hivewild. Maxwell’s 27+ choreographic projects have been presented at Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, CPR- Center for Performance Research, the Ace Hotel, Dinner Gallery, Atlantic Terminal-Barclays Center, and the Actors Fund Art Center, among others. Maxwell has been featured by online platforms such as NOWNESS, VICE, and on Vimeo as a Staff Pick. her film works have screened at 14 international festivals including Dance on Camera at Lincoln Center, the San Francisco Dance Film Festival, and Edinburgh Fringe. Maxwell’s been featured in NYTimes, Dance Informa, Lomography Magazine, and Art Zealous. She’s been awarded residencies including the Downtown Brooklyn Rehearsal Residency Initiative, BAC’s AccessArt, and Shawbrook Creative Space (Ireland). Maxwell received her Bachelor of Arts from Kennesaw State University while working extensively with Lauri Stallings’ Atlanta-based platform, glo. Notable performances include And all directions I come to you, Creative Time’s public art exhibition Drifting in Daylight: Art in Central Park (2015), Orfeo at the Atlanta Symphony with Robert Spano and Daniel Arsham (2017), Hinterland with Big Boi of Outkast and The Dungeon Family (2010), and roem, Stallings’ large-scale public work on the grounds of Atlanta’s High Museum of Art (2010).

Maxwell established Hivewild in 2016 as a platform to create formal works, engage the Brooklyn community, and promote artistic partnerships between visual artists, musicians, costume designers, and beyond. Maxwell is actively interested in using movement as a platform for mindfulness and human acceptance, and her practice seeks to continuously blur the edges between performance, installation, and human encounter.