Dance Towards The Light!

Auditions offer some of the most intense learning experiences anyone can have. They may be scary or amazing, heartbreaking or even funny, when you look back on them over time. As an actor and director I have been through it all and come out the other side of the audition process a little smarter. For many the audition is over in less than 5 minutes. Today CARLA MAXWELL, Artistic Director, The Limon Company, shares with us an insight into a week long intensive audition.

"During an open-call audition we select a small group of dancers who will continue to work with us for a week in a workshop situation.

During the week, they learn from the Limon repertoire, as well as selections from our current repertoire of other choreographers. We like to work one-on-one and have the dancers be coached by me, and by others. I do this weeklong workshop because I am very interested in process, how people take direction, and how they learn.

To execute our repertoire, dancers have to be more than good, smart, intelligent movers. It is important that a dancer have a good facility, but they need to be able convey dramatic ideas, use dramatic gestures, and communicate feelings on stage. I consider everyone in our company a soloist or potential soloist and therefore we and they must work together to help them become a complete artist.

At the end of the week, dancers show us what they have learned and also dance another piece of choreography that they have performed before and are comfortable with.

The weeklong audition is one small way (I wish it could be longer) in which we can learn something about the auditionees and they can learn about us. It is a big commitment to be part of any company and I want it to be a two way street.

The goal: Be yourself. Trust the beauty that's inside of you. Remember your strength and keep breathing."

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