FLATFOOT AUDITIONS

Auditions for dancers with a high level of skill and training in Bharatha Natyam, Kathak or other classical Indian dance style.

In collaboration with KZN DanceLink, Flatfoot Dance Company is being commissioned to create a dance theatre work that will feature choreographic direction by Lliane Loots. This new work will engage a collaborative process of creation that will grow and develop dance and choreographic skills with the dancers selected to participate.

The created work will form part of KZN DanceLink’s dance celebration at the Playhouse Drama between November 1 to 7. Places for four professional/semi-professional dancers are on offer for this short contract that will involve working alongside the resident Flatfoot Dance Company for a five-week period from October 1 to November 7. The fee ranges from R900 to R1,200 per week, depending on experience and expertise.

Given the nature of this dance theatre work, Lliane Loots is particularly interested (though not exclusively) in dancers who have a high level of skill and training in Bharatha Natyam, Kathak or any other classical Indian dance style. Dancers who come from a classical Indian dance background will need to be open and available to work with, and in, the contemporary idiom that exemplifies Flatfoot Dance Company.

This is a full-time contract! Dancers need to be available Monday to Fridays from 09h00 to 14h00 and Saturdays from 11h00 to 14h00 for the first four weeks of the contract and then will be needed full day for the last week. No negotiation of this time frame is possible. Auditionees need to bring a CV (no longer than two pages) to the audition which offers full personal details plus names of two people who will agree to be referees should they need to be contacted.

Auditionees need to book a place at the audition with Clare Craighead on 082 875 6065. Those who have not booked, will not be allowed to audition.

The auditions take place August 12 from 14h00 to 16h00 in the Dance Studio of the Drama Programme on the UKZN Howard College campus. No preparation is required for the audition – auditionees will do a contemporary-based class with the company and then be asked to fulfil a short choreographic/improvisation task. Flatfoot reserves the right not to cast or to request call-backs if necessary.