Dance auditions posted by the Artistic Director
Casting notice posted on auditionsfree.com, casting location: New York City
AUDITION for Professional Dancers – ANIKAI Dance Company
***AUDITION ANNOUNCEMENT***
ANIKAI DANCE COMPANY
SEEKING 1 MALE and 1 FEMALE dancer
FOR PERFORMANCES OF “HE WHO BURNS”
AT DANCE THEATER WORKSHOP JULY 13-16.
OPPORTUNITIES FOR FUTURE PROJECTS AND TOURING
AUDITION: Friday. May 20th 6-8PM
WHERE: STUDIO 5-2
Gina Gibney Dance, Inc
STUDIO 5
890 Broadway
New York, New York 10003
212.677.8560
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Seeking Professional Male & Female Dancers for performances at Dance Theater Workshop this July 13-16.
Opportunities for future touring and new project development into 2011-2012.
This is a paid performance opportunity.
To RSVP: Please send an email with short bio and attach a photograph (sized for web viewing) that shows you in action (a dance photo, something from a performance or of you in class etc.) to wendyjehlen@gmail.com to reserve your place at the audition.
You will receive an email confirmation.
For more information about the company please visit
http://www.akhra.org/anikaiweb/
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About ANIKAI Dance Company
& Artistic Director Wendy Jehlen
ANIKAI Dance has been evolving since 1998 in India, Italy, Japan and the US. Moving across, amongst, between and in the space between cultural, linguistic and geographic boundaries are the modus operandi of the company and the choreographer. ANIKAI’s performances weave together music, dance and storytelling, folk and classical, modern and traditional, secular and sacred, aural and visual. With each synthesis, a language is created. ANIKAI communicates in a unique and constantly evolving language.
Wendy Jehlen is a Contemporary dancer/choreographer, whose unique approach to choreography incorporates elements from a wide range of movement styles including Butoh, Capoeira, West African dance, Contemporary dance and Classical South Indian dance, which she has studied since childhood. Jehlen also collaborates with Deaf performers and poets, and uses the aesthetics of American Sign Language in her choreography.
Jehlen’s choreography has been performed in the United States, Europe, India and Japan. ANIKAI Dance has just returned from a 5-week, seven-city tour of India.
Her work is informed by her study of storytelling, literature and performance theory. She holds a Bachelors with Honors in Storytelling, Ritual and Performance from Brown University and a Masters of Theological Studies in Religion and Performance from Harvard University.
Jehlen has received funding and recognition for her choreography from the Ford Foundation/Arts International (1996), Bennetton Group/Fabrica, SpA (1997-1998), the Artist Grants Program of the Massachusetts Cultural Council (2001, 2003), the Senior Performing Artist Fellowship program of the American Institute of Indian Studies (2001), the Puffin Foundation (2001, 2007), the Tokyo American Center (2002), the National Endowment for the Arts (2005), the Fulbright program/United States Educational Foundation in India (2005-2006), the National School of Drama (2006) and the Alliance Francaise de Madras (2006), the Somerville Arts Council (2000, 2005, 2008), and the Cambridge Arts Council (2008), among others.
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About “He Who Burns”:
He Who Burns is an exploration through dance, text and music of the figure of Iblis, Satan, as understood in some Sufi traditions. Through this lens, the dance-theater piece explores the nature of humanity’s relationship with the divine, the eternal quest for unity and the illusion of duality in the human experience.
He Who Burns takes our notion of good and evil, the divine and the satanic, and turns it on its head. Staged as a trio, He Who Burns takes us on a journey from the time before time, through the suffering of Iblis in his separation from his Beloved, and his quest for the same, through to his ecstatic annihilation.
The performance at once parallels the Sufi quest, as outlined in the great Sufi text, “Conference of the Birds,” and the structure of the Bharata Natyam performance. The text, from the Persian, Arabic and Urdu of Al-Hallaj, Faiz Ahmed Faiz, Mohammed Iqbal, Al Ghazzali, Hafiz and Maulana Jelaluddin Rumi, is performed in Urdu and English.
He Who Burns was premiered in 2006 in Delhi, India, followed by performances in Chennai, India. It was performed in Boston, NYC and at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC in 2009. In 2011, along with another 1-hour work, Forest, He Who Burns toured in seven cities in India.
Casting Location: New York City
Contact email: wendyjehlen@gmail.com
