Gray Box is Looking for a Contemporary Dancer
We are looking for a professional contemporary dancer who is interested in the question of legitimacy, experimenting with anger and combativeness.
Based on interdisciplinary research based-collaborations, and non-hierarchical collective creative process, Gray Box creates and curates site-specific projects, focus on ecology, socio-cultural changes and subcultures, question hegemonic class, gender, normative behaviors, and dominant ideologies. Choreographies, public performances, exhibitions, fashion collections together with workshops echo the broader socio-political context, and challenge the body as both a historically disciplined, shaped, and colonized archive and a living public/private site, where power is constantly contested and negotiated. In the past years Gray Box has performed across Europe (France, Germany, Austria, Croatia, Hungary…), in major cities and small towns alike. It has been in-residence with many formal and informal cultural, artistic and alternative spaces (France, Malta, Austria, Serbia, Armenia, Hungary…).
We are looking for a professional dancer with or without degree: we are interested in you, and not in your papers.
We appreciate dancers who are risk-takers, who don’t afraid of failure, and who are willing to progress, to gain new experiences, and to step out of their comfort zone.
If you are a fighter, a warrior, a punk, a dissident, a marginal, an outsider, you should definitely apply.
Our values are sincerity, generosity and authenticity. If superficial and fake things bother you, if you have also enough with this image- and marketing-focused society, apply.
WHEN & WHERE
Audition:
Date: Choose one day only! Auditions happen between November 8-12. 2021, from 10-13h, in the form of a workshop.
Number of participants: 6 dancers / workshop.
Audition program: Through the experimentation and practice of play fighting and movement improvisation, you will be encouraged to raise your voice, echo freely the broader socio-political context, challenge hegemonic class, gender, normative behaviors, and dominant ideologies, develop your capacities to resist and revolt against others’ judgements and expectations.
Audition held by: Anna Adam, choreographer of the upcoming piece
Response: Maximum 2 weeks after the audition
Venue: Maubuisson Abbey, Saint-Ouen-l’Aumône (95), France
Creation:
Dates: June 6-12, 2022
Venue: “School of Disobedience” Residency & Healing Center, Balatonalmádi, Hungary
Creation program: exchange, debate, experimentation, creation
Premiere:
Summer / Fall 2022
APPLICATION
Send the following information to [email protected]
Practical information: your name and where are you based currently (city, country)
A not-edited video link (not WeTransfer) of 1-3 minutes (no matter the quality) of recent improvisation (not showreel)
A not-edited video link (not WeTransfer) of maximum 1 minute (no matter the quality) in which you watch in our eyes (through your phone / camera), and tell your story only with your eyes. No need to speak, we will understand 🙂
No photo
No CV
No showreel
No motivation letter
Deadline for applications: October 15th 2021
More information at: https://www.grayboxprojects.com