Auditions

We are an interdisciplinary arts collective that aims to empower dancers and choreographers in the National Capital Region to train, perform, and stage collaborative choreographic projects.

• We unite experienced dancers of all body types, ages, socioeconomic backgrounds, ethnicities, genders and sexual identities with the tools they need to bring their artistic visions to audiences in the National Capital Region.

• We explore how dance can illuminate social issues and challenge existing dance structures and institutions. 

• We embrace new techniques to expand beyond our comfort zones and seek inspiration from multiple sources

The desire to create a welcoming space centered around empathy, diligence, accessibility, community and purposeful creation. We recognize that our collective well-being depends on empathy, honesty and understanding, and we do our best to offer a welcoming and healthy creative environment. Even when we have bad days, we show up and support each other with diligence and respect.

• 4 hours a week of dance training and rehearsal focused on contemporary dance, with exploration of other dance styles from around the world;

• Support, mentorship, resources, and space to produce thought-provoking new works;

• Opportunities for interdisciplinary creation with other dancers, choreographers, visual artists, composers, musicians, poets and videographers;

• Opportunities to perform in innovative new works by other members;

• Opportunities to explore new dance styles, techniques and disciplines; and

• Creation in a supportive, accessibility-informed, wellness-oriented, anti-colonial environment. 

You should get involved if...

• You have extensive experience training and performing in ballet, modern dance, contemporary dance, commercial or street dance, indigenous dance styles or traditional dance styles from around the world;

• You are interested in bringing together various styles of dance;

• You can commit to diligently training and rehearsing for 2 hours 2x/week;

• You can commit to volunteering regularly to help make workshops, performances, and collaborative projects possible (i.e.: Running social media accounts, designing posters, contributing to drafting grant applications, setting up/tearing down spaces, teaching workshops etc);

• You are available to train Monday & Wednesday evenings between 7:00-9:30pm;

• You are committed to creating in a safe, accessible, anti-colonial, empathetic environment; and

• You have ideas for creating new works, or are excited to be a part of a team to make each other's visions come to life

You don't need to prepare anything for the auditions. The auditions will last about 2.5 hours and will involve:

• A group "get-to-know-you" discussion;

• Breathing exercise to get everyone calm and centered;

• Warm up;

• Collaborative creation exercises to see how you work with others; 

• Guided improvisation to see how you move in your own style of dance and work with other dancers;

• Cool down.

Since Voices is a non profit, your membership fees go exclusively towards making our training and our creative projects possible.

Membership fees cover the cost of renting studio space, the cost of bringing in guest teachers and guests artists, and part of production costs. 

Voices is committed to making dance training financially accessible. Our membership fee is priced on a sliding scale, on a “pay what you can” basis. Please contact us to discuss how we can make membership possible for you.