Archive: Auditions, Jobs, and Open Calls

Audition Wednesday, April 16 to be a part of the onstage cast with the stellar professional dancers of American Ballet Theatre (ABT) in the Northrop presentations of Giselle.

Auditions are open to males ages 8 and up and females ages 14 and up to appear onstage with the amazing dancers of ABT.
All supers must be able to attend all rehearsals and performances.
Dance experience is not required; acting experience is helpful.

Collide Theatrical Dance Company is auditioning dancers for their 12th season at the Luminary Arts Center—seeking strong technical jazz dancers with excellent acting skills. All styles of dance – tap/hip-hop – are encouraged to apply. The season announcement will take place in early May.

Auditions: Thursday, April 17, 10:00am-1:30pm
To sign up for an audition appointment, click here. Virtual submissions can be sent to auditions@collidetheatrical.org.

2025/2026 Schedule:

• Rehearsals are during daytime hours, usually 9:30am-3:30pm
• Educational Tour: rehearses September 8-21 with ongoing performances September-May
• Mainstage Show #1: rehearses September 22-October 17 with performances October 21-November 9 (November 10-23, pending weeks)
• Mainstage Show #2: rehearses January 12-31, 2026 with performances February 2-15, 2026
• Mainstage Show #3: rehearses February 23-March 22, 2026 with performances March 24- April 12, 2026

Company Dancers are salaried employees at $500-$800/week. Guest Artists are hired on a per show basis. Junior Company Dancers are hired on a per show basis at $300/week.

Collide Theatrical Dance Company is an equal opportunity employer. All employment decisions are based on individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression (including transsexual and inter-sexed), national origin, age, disability, marital status, political affiliation, status with respect to public assistance or veteran status, or other status protected by law.

eMartin Dance is accepting applications for their September 26-27 premiere Blood of the Earth at the Southern Theater. We are seeking 5-7 movers with strong contemporary dance and improvisation backgrounds to join our core company for this evening-length work.

To Apply:

• Send your resume and dance sample to erika@emartindance.org by April 23.
• Resumes should include relevant training and performance experience – preferably 1-2 pages.
• Your dance sample may be a website link or file that you feel demonstrates your current performance skills – floor work is a plus! Please include a performance, class, or improvisation excerpt from the past year.
  

Schedule:

• Rehearsals are during evening hours at Threads Dance Project: Tuesdays, 6:00-9:00pm
• August 5-September 16, approximately 1.5/hours a week
• Tech Week: September 22-25
• Performances: September 26 and  27

Artists will be hired as independent contractors. We are currently able to offer $15/hour for rehearsals and will provide an additional stipend for tech/show week.

eMartin Dance is an equal opportunity employer. All employment decisions are based on individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, marital status, political affiliation, status with respect to public assistance or veteran status, or other status protected by law. Individuals with diverse backgrounds encouraged to apply.

Collide Theatrical’s Apprentice Program is an audition-based professional training program designed to provide the skills needed to pursue formal positions within the Collide Company and in the world of theater dance. This is a ​9-month training program with 3 trimesters (September-November, December-February, and March-May). Interested dancers must sign up for a minimum of 3 months, or 1 trimester.

Selected Apprentice dancers will take technique classes with the Company 2-3 days a week, participate in a cabaret performance, and have opportunities to appear in Collide shows and/or understudy roles. Throughout the program, dancers will have an opportunity to be mentored by Collide’s artistic staff, train alongside professional Company members, and receive education that is individually tailored to their goals and needs. The technical classes include a variety of styles rooted in ballet and jazz, including tap, acting for dance, hip-hop, and more. Apprentice dancers will also have an opportunity to participate in quarterly master classes with Broadway touring dance captains and industry professionals.

This is a tuition-based program. Scholarships are available for underrepresented artists. Participants must be over the age of 18. Enrollment is competitive and audition-based.

To be considered, please submit a video of you dancing (ideally jazz or ballet) to auditions@collidetheatrical.org. Videos should be under 2 minutes long. Please also include in your email a performance/education resume and a headshot, if you have them.

Zenon Dance seeks to establish a pool of qualified dance educators/teaching artists to facilitate classes, workshops, and K-12 school residencies for our partner organizations. We invite individuals interested in joining Zenon’s teaching artists, who are committed to fostering children’s developmental growth through dance.

Teaching Artists
In close collaboration with Zenon Dance, the teaching artist will develop a syllabus and lesson plans for classes, workshops, and K-12 school residencies, attend a one-week paid program planning session, and facilitate hands-on and immersive dance-based experiences for K-12 students that integrate core curricular content at partner sites.

To Apply
Send materials to Danielle Robinson-Prater at danielle@zenondance.org. Application priority deadline is April 2.

Zenon Dance Company and School, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Please see the website for full details, qualifications, and terms of employment.

Northrop and American Ballet Theatre hosts open auditions for supernumerary roles in ABT’s Giselle.

Be part of the magic—as a “super”—onstage with the dancers of American Ballet Theatre (ABT). An open casting call for supernumerary roles for the ABT April 18–19 performances of Giselle is scheduled for Wednesday, April 16. Supernumerary—or “super”—roles are non-speaking roles, and all supers must be able to attend all rehearsals and performances.

Males ages 8+ and females ages 14+ are invited to apply. No dance experience is necessary, and all super positions are filled on a voluntary basis. Individuals of all ages, races, ethnicities, genders, and abilities are welcome and encouraged to apply. 

Auditions: Wednesday, April 16 at Carlson Family Stage
Children’s Check-in: 5:00pm, Audition: 5:30–8:00pm
Age 14–Adult Check-in: 5:30pm, Audition: 6:00–8:30pm 

Register here!

Collide Theatrical Dance Company is auditioning dancers for their 12th season at the Luminary Arts Center—seeking strong technical jazz dancers with excellent acting skills. All styles of dance – tap/hip-hop – are encouraged to apply. The season announcement will take place in early May.

Auditions: Thursday, April 17, 10:00am-1:30pm
To sign up for an audition appointment, click here. Virtual submissions can be sent to auditions@collidetheatrical.org.

2025/2026 Schedule:

• Rehearsals are during daytime hours, usually 9:30am-3:30pm
• Educational Tour: rehearses September 8-21 with ongoing performances September-May
• Mainstage Show #1: rehearses September 22-October 17 with performances October 21-November 9 (November 10-23, pending weeks)
• Mainstage Show #2: rehearses January 12-31, 2026 with performances February 2-15, 2026
• Mainstage Show #3: rehearses February 23-March 22, 2026 with performances March 24- April 12, 2026

Company Dancers are salaried employees at $500-$800/week. Guest Artists are hired on a per show basis. Junior Company Dancers are hired on a per show basis at $300/week.

Collide Theatrical Dance Company is an equal opportunity employer. All employment decisions are based on individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression (including transsexual and inter-sexed), national origin, age, disability, marital status, political affiliation, status with respect to public assistance or veteran status, or other status protected by law.

Ballet Co.Laboratory believes in the development of the whole dancer and works to invest in artists’ professional growth. One way Ballet Co.Laboratory aids professional dance makers in evolving their artistry is through our Laboratory II: Emerging Choreographer Program. Each season, one choreographer is hired through this program to create a new, full-length, staged ballet production which is performed by the upper-level students at The School of Ballet Co.Laboratory (ages 11 – 20).

Ballet Co.Laboratory knows how difficult it can be to find paid work as an emerging choreographer. Some organizations offer free space and artists to perform their work, but many do not compensate emerging artists for their creation/rehearsal time and even fewer cover production costs such as costumes, sets, stage management, etc. The choreographer selected through the Laboratory II: Emerging Choreographer Program is not only compensated for their work and the materials/staff to create their production, but will simultaneously receive mentorship from Ballet Co.Laboratory staff in production design and arts administration to get a complete picture of what it is like to create, market, and fundraise for a new work.

The story that Ballet Co.Laboratory will be asking the 2025 emerging choreographer to draw inspiration from is the children’s book, If You Give A Mouse A Cookie. Applicants who apply can choose to present this narrative as a classical or contemporary ballet. The selected choreographer will work alongside the Ballet Co.Laboratory artistic team in selecting the music, designing scenic elements, creating costumes, and casting roles.

Choreographers applying to this program are encouraged to think critically about how ballet can continue to evolve in becoming more inclusive and forward-thinking. Rather than create a piece that is simply based on movement, artists are asked to create a production with a storyline that sparks the imagination and challenges the audiences’ perception of what ballet is.

All applicants must live in Minnesota, have had formal ballet training, and consider themselves to be an emerging choreographer.

Collide Theatrical’s Apprentice Program is an audition-based professional training program designed to provide the skills needed to pursue formal positions within the Collide Company and in the world of theater dance. This is a ​9-month training program with 3 trimesters (September-November, December-February, and March-May). Interested dancers must sign up for a minimum of 3 months, or 1 trimester.

Selected Apprentice dancers will take technique class with the Company 2-3 days a week, participate in a cabaret performance, and have opportunities to appear in Collide shows and/or understudy roles. Throughout the program, dancers will have an opportunity to be mentored by Collide’s artistic staff, train alongside professional Company members, and receive education that is individually tailored to their goals and needs. The technical classes include a variety of styles rooted in ballet and jazz, including tap, acting for dance, hip-hop, and more. Apprentice dancers will also have an opportunity to participate in quarterly master classes with Broadway touring dance captains and industry professionals.

This is a tuition-based program. Scholarships are available for underrepresented artists. Participants must be over the age of 18. Enrollment is competitive and audition-based.

To be considered, please submit a video of you dancing (ideally jazz or ballet) to auditions@collidetheatrical.org. Videos should be under 2 minutes long. Please also include in your email a performance/education resume and a headshot, if you have them.