OPEN AUDITION: TWILIGHT COMPOSITE
Tuesday Sept. 27, 6:15- 8pm and Friday Sept 30, 3:15-5 pm || Roble Gym Studio 38
A new dance work by Dance Division faculty Diane Frank. An episodic, 11-minute dance combining layers of high-powered movement from fractured dance memory and daily life. Music score by Dohi Moon, CCRMA affiliate composer.
Cast will include 7- 9 dancers, both men & women. Looking for strong technique and vivid stage presence. Come dressed to dance (knee pads advised), be warmed up by 6:15. prepare to work the whole time. Prepare to dance short bit(s) of material that show your movement preferences & skills Dancers selected by both audition/invitation. Dancers strongly encouraged to take Dance 141 Adv. Modern Technique. Credit: Enroll in Dance 27, for 1 unit S/NC, upon casting, if desired.
REHEARSAL SCHEDULE:
Autumn Quarter: Tuesdays 6:15-8pm, & Fridays 3:15-5pm (no Fri rehearsal Dead Week)
Winter Quarter: Tuesdays & Thursdays 6:15-8pm
Rehearsal schedule allows you to dance in Chocolate Heads,Cunningham Intensive, & Dance & Visual Arts as well.
PERFORMANCE INFO:
Performances are March 8-10, at the American College Dance Festival regional conference in Modesto, CA. ACDF is a national conference for university dance programs, consisting of master classes & adjudicated dance performances by students from peer institutions. ACDF dates: March 7-10. We depart Stanford early Thurs / return noon Sunday.
QUESTIONS? Email Diane Frank dfrank1@stanford.edu
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OPEN AUDITION: CHOCOLATE HEADS
Wednesday, Sept. 28 at 7pm || Roble Gym Studio 38
Auditions for Chocolate Heads Dance and Performance Workshop (DANCE MEETS THE D.SCHOOL) -- Sign Up for DANCE 30 for 1 unit of credit. Seeking Multi Style Dancers and Performers for the Chocolate Heads Winter 2012 Show (Performance Dates Feb 3 & 4, 2012), directed by Dance Division faculty Aleta Hayes. Please bring 1 minute of audition material for each style you'd like to demonstrate, plus your own music (on iPod or CD). Be prepared to learn *NEW* material and improvise, and please wear clothes that you can dance in.
QUESTIONS? Email the Artistic Director/Choreographer, Aleta Hayes at ahayes1@stanford.edu or the Asst. Director/Asst. Choreographer, Leimomi Kanagusuku at leimomik@stanford.edu.
Click here to view video of the Chocolate Heads STAN Performance (2011)
ABOUT CHOCOALTE HEADS
Founded in 2009, The Chocolate Heads Movement Band is a platform for performers of many genres. The troupe's name is a descriptor for a "movement driven band " comprised of dancers, musicians, visual artists, writers, performance poets—referencing both dance and social movements as motivating forces for the work. Other trademarks of the work are original live music created in collaboration with the dance, and dancers who can source more than one style of movement.
Artistic director and choreographer Aleta Hayes created this collective of Stanford students and professional artists to further her interests in collaborative work using content drawn from the performative, design and choreographic talents within the band. Hayes utilizes her own unique compositional strategy of mining and remixing those contributions in combination with the concepts and choreography that she lays down as the foundation of the work.
This year the Chocolate Heads Movement Band will explore tools and concepts from design thinking to help create performances. We want to observe and expand the Chocolate Heads creative process, to find it, map it, explore it, and transform it by asking questions such as: What else can performance do? What else does it do? How do we choreograph a social movement? Why does the construct of a 'band' change the performance relationship with an audience? We'll be looking at what is common and what is unique to the innovation processes in design, choreography, and performance. The class will Include special guest workshops on design process, branding, entrepreneurship, and choreography with master facilitators from the Stanford d.school, IDEO, the Stanford Technology Ventures Program, the Stanford Design Program and the San Francisco dance community