Afro House is seeking African-American dancers skilled in Ballet and Contemporary age 18 and over for a production of Afro Punk Ballet.
ABOUT AFRO PUNK BALLET Afro Punk Ballet is an afro-futuristic opera-ballet. Set years into the future, the story delves into the world of two sisters unable to agree on how to handle the catastrophic consequences of a decision made by their late father.
Levi, a brilliant military scientist with a unique spiritual knowledge of space and time creates a second sun. The unprecedented devastation of his sun brings the nation’s inhabitants near extinction. Levi’s unwillingness to face the realities of his creation, leaves his eldest daughter and successor, Corfaszia, to restore order to the land. Jakub, the younger of the two daughters, with a deep connection to the spirit world, is forced into exile.
Afro Punk Ballet is an exploration of the crossroads between African spirituality, mathematics, and physics, poetically weaving “time and space” within the movement and music. Inspired by the experience of spiritual possession in the black southern gospel tradition and similar experiences within the Afro Punk Movement, this piece utilizes a soundscape that encompasses the styles of punk music, 20th century French music, and southern gospel music. With contemporary ballet’s use of abstraction, the world of Afro Punk Ballet is futuristic and mythical. By using the grandeur of opera and ballet, this piece strives to tell an epic story that challenges popular notions of heroism, morality and futurism.
SHOW DATES October 4th, 5th, 6th, 12th and 13th at 8:00 p.m.
REHEARSAL DATES September 10th-30th and the week of October 1st will be tech week
AUDITION DATE & TIME Thursday, September 6, 7:00 p.m.-9:00 p.m.
CHECK IN 1 hour before audition (6:00 p.m.)
PREPARE
Ballet shoes, sneakers and knee pads (optional but recommended). You will be asked to sing parts that will be taught by the composer during the audition.
AUDITION LOCATION
1700 Greenmount Avenue, Baltimore, MD 21202
REGISTRATION Please register here. You will be asked for your contact information, headshot and resume. Although registration is highly recommended, it is not required.
COMPENSATION This is a non-equity show and artists are provided a stipend compensation for their time.
ABOUT AFRO HOUSE Founded in 2011 by Alisha Patterson and Scott Patterson, Afro House is a Baltimore-based music driven performance art house. The organization is comprised of professional artists whose collective skills, knowledge and craftsmanship are channeled for the creation of art that disrupts normative ideas about human being. Musicians, dancers, designers, actors, image makers and writers push the boundaries of their own discipline so that each art form might effectively bleed into the next, creating something evolutionary.
