AUDITION NOTICE NOISM1 – RYUTOPIA RESIDENTIAL DANCE COMPANY

Noism1 – RYUTOPIA Residential Dance Company, directed by Jo Kanamori is seeking for experienced dancers between the age of 20 and 35, with a strong technique for next season 2019-2020.

Applicants must have advanced training in classical ballet, modern or contemporary as well as performance experience. The performance takes place in Niigata every autumn and spring, tours in Japan and overseas. The contract will start from September 2019 and renewed every year.

Noism is Japan’s first dance company to have a residency at a theater, basing its activities at the RYUTOPIA Niigata City Performing Arts Center. The company was founded in 2004, after the director, choreographer, and dancer Jo Kanamori was appointed artistic director of RYUTOPIA’s Dance Division. It is split into two divisions: Noism1, which consists of professional dancers, and Noism2, for apprentices. Based in Niigata, Noism1 has been active in a variety of places both in Japan and abroad, working with Moscow’s Chekhov International Theatre Festival and performing at the Saito Kinen Festival Matsumoto. Noism2 participates in many events held within the prefecture, and has been increasingly active in the region. With its global outlook, with the dancers’ overpowering bodies and sharp critical minds behind it, the company’s work has been getting attention from all quarters as a new model for Japan’s theater culture in the 21st century.

Where: RYUTOPIA Niigata City Performing Arts Center, Niigata, Japan

When: April 14, 2019

Deadline for applications: April 10, 2019

How to Apply: please fill out the application form on the following link;
https://goo.gl/forms/K2NnEv3ym9k8O4fu2

or please send your application by email.
– CV with personal information, education/training, work experience and contact information.
– Headshot
– Audition Video link with clearly and completely visible.

We shall notify you by email about the pre-selection results as soon as possible.
Only selected dancers will be asked to join the audition on 14 April 2019 in Niigata, Japan.

No cost to Audition, but Applicants must pay own travel expenses.

Contact details: RYUTOPIA Niigata City Performing Arts Center
3-2 Ichibanboridori-cho, Chuo-ku, Niigata-city, Niigata, 951-8132 JAPAN
E-mail: [email protected]
Tel: +81-25-224-7000
Attn: Noism1 Audition

For more information please visit http://noism.jp/en/about/company/

Photo: Noism

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