AUDITION
For BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People Of Color) artist only
EXTENDED DEADLINE > MAY 20TH
CONTEXT
[Français]
Gray Box pense que toutes les compagnies subventionnées par l’Etat devraient avoir une parité et une mixité irréprochables au seine de l’équipe et du plateau. Pour cette raison, pour compléter notre casting, cet appel est à destination des artistes BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Color) uniquement. Merci beaucoup pour votre compréhension.
[English]
Gray Box believes that all state-funded companies should have an impeccable parity and diversity in the team and on the stage. For this reason, to complete our cast, in this specific call, we are looking for BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Color) artist only. Thank you for your understanding.
DEADLINE
ABOUT US
Based on interdisciplinary research based-collaborations, and non-hierarchical collective creative process, Gray Box creates and curates site-specific projects, focus on ecology, socio-cultural changes and subcultures, question hegemonic class, gender, normative behaviors, and dominant ideologies. Choreographies, public performances, exhibitions, fashion collections together with workshops echo the broader socio-political context, and challenge the body as both a historically disciplined, shaped, and colonized archive and a living public/private site, where power is constantly contested and negotiated. In the past years Gray Box has performed across Europe (France, Germany, Austria, Croatia, Hungary...), in major cities and small towns alike. It has been in-residence with many formal and informal cultural, artistic and alternative spaces (Belgium, England, France, Malta, Austria, Serbia, Armenia, Hungary...).
CALL
We are looking for a BIPOC* performance artist / movement artist / self-trained dancer / guerilla performer / troublemaker / warrior / dissident / marginal / outsider / street fighter / punk / activist with significant movement practice / stage experience.
PERFORMANCE PROJECT
YOU
YOUR BENEFITS
APPLICATION
Send the following information to [email protected]
APPLICATION PROCESS
WHY
If you want to better understand why we are launching this audition notice, why we don't work with always the same dancers, why we are open to dancers who we don't know personally, why we don't want to receive your CV, what our values are and what we believe in, please, read our manifesto.
SOCIAL MEDIA & STUFF
Gray Box:
@grayboxprojects
School of Disobedience:
@school_of_disobedience
www.schoolofdisobedience.org
Anna Adam (choreographer):
@annaadamstudio
www.annaadam.net
* BIPOC: Black, Indigenous, and People Of Color
[Français]
Gray Box pense que toutes les compagnies subventionnées par l’Etat devraient avoir une parité et une mixité irréprochables au seine de l’équipe et du plateau. Pour cette raison, pour compléter notre casting, cet appel est à destination des artistes BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Color) uniquement. Merci beaucoup pour votre compréhension.
[English]
Gray Box believes that all state-funded companies should have an impeccable parity and diversity in the team and on the stage. For this reason, to complete our cast, in this specific call, we are looking for BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Color) artist only. Thank you for your understanding.
DEADLINE
- 2022 May 20th
- You usually hear back maximum a week after submitting your application.
- If you want a decision early, apply early.
ABOUT US
Based on interdisciplinary research based-collaborations, and non-hierarchical collective creative process, Gray Box creates and curates site-specific projects, focus on ecology, socio-cultural changes and subcultures, question hegemonic class, gender, normative behaviors, and dominant ideologies. Choreographies, public performances, exhibitions, fashion collections together with workshops echo the broader socio-political context, and challenge the body as both a historically disciplined, shaped, and colonized archive and a living public/private site, where power is constantly contested and negotiated. In the past years Gray Box has performed across Europe (France, Germany, Austria, Croatia, Hungary...), in major cities and small towns alike. It has been in-residence with many formal and informal cultural, artistic and alternative spaces (Belgium, England, France, Malta, Austria, Serbia, Armenia, Hungary...).
CALL
We are looking for a BIPOC* performance artist / movement artist / self-trained dancer / guerilla performer / troublemaker / warrior / dissident / marginal / outsider / street fighter / punk / activist with significant movement practice / stage experience.
PERFORMANCE PROJECT
- Research: Setting boundaries can be scary, especially if we didn't have them modeled for us growing up. In our upcoming performance project, we bring up this topic to dive into why setting boundaries (e.g. for your mental health, to improve the relationship, to avoid resentment...), why maintaining them can sometimes be hard, what are the potential barriers impacting our ability to set boundaries (e.g. low self-esteem, fears....), and how to set and maintain healthy boundaries to protect and take good care of us? We explore in a non-judgmental and non-hierarchical space a variety of questions, such as: What are the types of boundaries and how do they function? What are the basic sentences we can answer to protect our Emotional / Intellectual / Physical / Time-Energy boundaries? What are the signs of damaged boundaries? What are the traumas and blocks to establish healthy boundaries? How can we recognize boundary violation and protect ourselves from it? How to say “no” firmly and politely?
- Experimentation: movement research, improvisation, physical dance, performance, writing / reading...
- Creation: Performance
YOU
- You are a BIPOC* person
- Age: min 23
- For ecological reasons, we are looking for local artists based in Île-de-France
- Speaking both English and French
- Profile: BIPOC* performance artist / movement artist / self-trained dancer / guerilla performer / troublemaker / warrior / dissident / marginal / outsider / street fighter / punk / activist with significant movement practice / stage experience
- Degree / Education / Papers: don’t care
YOUR BENEFITS
- Discover a non-judgmental and non-hierarchical space for producing and sharing knowledge and tools, create new forms of aesthetics based on empathy and inclusion ;
- Challenge artistic conventions and traditional canons, confront standards, norms ;
- Gain a collaborative, experimental, horizontal, and research-based working method ;
- Correct and respectful working conditions and fees.
APPLICATION
Send the following information to [email protected]
- Where are you based currently (city)
- A not-edited video link (not WeTransfer, not attached file) of maximum 2 minutes of recent improvisation (no matter the recording quality, nor the space).
- A not-edited video link (not WeTransfer, not attached file) of maximum 1 minute in which you watch in our eyes (through your phone / camera), and tell your story only with your eyes. No need to speak, we will understand :)
- No photo
- No CV
- No showreel
- No motivation letter
APPLICATION PROCESS
- 1st step: one-on-one online call
- 2nd step: physical audition (3h)
WHY
If you want to better understand why we are launching this audition notice, why we don't work with always the same dancers, why we are open to dancers who we don't know personally, why we don't want to receive your CV, what our values are and what we believe in, please, read our manifesto.
SOCIAL MEDIA & STUFF
Gray Box:
@grayboxprojects
School of Disobedience:
@school_of_disobedience
www.schoolofdisobedience.org
Anna Adam (choreographer):
@annaadamstudio
www.annaadam.net
* BIPOC: Black, Indigenous, and People Of Color
