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Audition: Willi Dorner's bodies in urban spaces
Call for Philly dancers! Come audition for Austrian choreographer Willi Dorner's bodies in urban spaces, which will make its U.S. premiere at the 2008 Live Arts Festival. bodies in urban spaces is a traveling performance in which dancers occupy and manipulate outdoor spaces throughout Philadelphia-your audience will include Festival goers and passersby of all kinds. bodies in urban spaces premiered in Paris in 2007, and has since rendered great critical acclaim in Vienna, Utrecht, and throughout the site-specific dance community. Twenty Philly-area advanced dancers/performers with backgrounds in partnering and/or contact improvisation will be cast. Willi hopes to cast a group of dancers who can move and improvise together as a corps. This is a perfect opportunity for dancers who are interested in performing in the Live Arts Festival and broadening their experience as site-based performers.
Auditions will be held on May 10, 2008, from 10am - 4pm (including a break). Please be prepared to stay for the duration. Selection for the piece will be made on-site.
Workshop will be held at Kun-Yang Lin/Dancer's studio, 1316 S. 9th Street. To register, please send an email to workshops@livearts-fringe.org.
Rehearsals for bodies in urban spaces will be held daily from 10am - 6pm from Saturday, August 30 until Thursday, September 4. There may be a short rehearsal held on August 29. Performances will be held Friday, September 5 and Saturday, September 6. Stipend will be provided. Two performers from bodies in urban spaces will be selected to work with Willi Dorner on an upcoming project in 2009.
About the Choreographer: Born in Baden, Austria, Willi Dorner has studied at the Vienna Conservatory for Music and the Performing Arts, the Erick Hawkins Studio in New York, and at the School for Body-Mind Centering, and is a certified teacher of Alexander Technique. He began his career at the Austrian Society for Dance Therapy where he studied dance, dance pedagogy and dance therapy. Willi was a member of Nina Martin's company in New York and I.D.A.-Mark Tompkins Company in Paris, and has also worked with Andrew Harwood, Dani Lepkoff, Irene Hultman and Stephen Petronio.
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