Archive: Auditions, Jobs, and Open Calls

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 an excellent post-graduate transitional program for recent college graduates looking at venturing into a full-time performing career. This is a tuition-based training program that culminates with a final cabaret performance. Participation is by audition only.

Education and Performance Experience:

• Apprentices take class and rehearse alongside the First and Second Company on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays from September 2026-April 2027.
• All Apprentices perform in The Holiday Spectacular and Apprentice Showcase, boosting their resumes and dance reels.
• They are invited to attend quarterly Master Classes with visiting Broadway Tour dance captains and local industry professionals.
• All apprentices receive periodic meetings with Collide Staff to individualize career goals and assist with growth and development from all angles.

In-Person Audition​: Thursday, May 21 at 9:30am
Pre-registration is required. Sign up for an audition here.
Please come prepared to dance with a resume and headshot.

Virtual Audition: Send a 5-minute dance reel featuring ballet adagio and jazz technique to Auditions@collidetheatrical.org. Please include a cover letter, resume, and headshot.

Questions? Email Auditions@collidetheatrical.org.

Ballet Co.Laboratory is looking for versatile and accomplished classically trained dancers with partnering and pointe experience for our 2026/27 performance season.

If interested, please contact Zoé Henrot at zhenrot@balletcolaboratory.org.

Annika Johansson is seeking dance artists for Composition for a Hill, a site-specific outdoor workshop and performance series unfolding across four seasons in a park setting.

In each 2.5 hour session, dancers will explore improvisation, attention, and shared public space – working with the landscape as a creative partner. Expect collaborative research, guided prompts, and a short performance each session, all shaped by weather, terrain, and time. This is for folks who are curious, collaborative, and interested in dance as a way of relating to place, to non-human dance partners, and to each other.

May/June 2026: Informal gathering (introduction and scheduling)
June/July 2026: Summer workshop
September/October 2026: Autumn workshop
January 2027: Winter workshop
March/April 2027: Spring workshop (final)
Exact dates and backup dates for extreme weather will be scheduled in advance as a group.

Project Location: Beards Plaisance (near Lake Harriet), 4525 Upton Ave S, Minneapolis
Compensation: $40/hour

Requirements: 
Comfortable moving outdoors in all weather on uneven terrain
Able to commit to all 4 sessions
Minnesota resident

No formal audition. Please complete the Google form by May 5. Full project description available on the application form.

Joanna Lees is holding an audition for a new independent creative project called Shadowland, Summer 2026. 

Joanna seeks mature, athletic, authentic, talented, and curious movers who want to work collaboratively in a community-centered environment. Ideal candidates will be inquisitive problem solvers who have a strong sense of their individuality and unique movement point of view. The work will be contemporary in nature, but movers of all dance backgrounds are welcome and encouraged to attend.

Saturday, May 16
10:00am-1:00pm
Hennepin Center for the Arts, studio 5B on the fifth floor

Registration is highly encouraged by Thursday, May 14.
Video Submissions: Video submissions will be accepted if you cannot attend. Click here for more information.

Shadowland will investigate ideas of vulnerability, paradox, shame, and healing through the lens and physicalization of invisible experiences. How can complex and contradictory internal experiences be expressed authentically and externally through movement and sound? How are movement choices shaped with the knowledge of being seen or heard? We will traverse an artistic landscape of ‘both/and.’ Original sound by Dameun Strange.  

Email questions to joannajacksonlees@gmail.com.

Joanna Lees is a fiscal year 2026 recipient of a Creative Individuals grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board. This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund.

Minnesota Ballet Theatre is seeking talented male and female dancers with strong classical technique to join Company Apprentice programs for the 2026/2027 Season.

The Trainee and Apprentice programs are designed for dancers ages 18+ seeking advanced training and performance experience in a pre-professional environment.

Sunday, May 17 from 1:30–3:00pm
Eligibility: Ages 18+
Location: Minnesota Ballet Theatre and School

Minnesota Ballet Theatre and School (MBS) – Final Summer Intensive Placement Audition

This is the last in-person audition opportunity for our Summer Intensive 2026 program. Due to high interest and a previous weather-related cancellation, we are offering one final placement audition for remaining spots across all levels.

Sunday, May 17
11:00am — Registration
11:30am–1:00pm — Summer Intensive Audition

Audition Details: Open to serious ballet students ages 9+. Required for Summer Intensive participation. Placement based on age, level, and availability. Open to both new and current MBS students. Limited spots remaining.

Summer Intensive 2026 Dates
Ages 8-18+
Camp 1: June 15–26
Camp 2: July 6–17

Collide Theatrical Dance Company is auditioning dancers to join Season 13 as Guest Dancers (paid), Second Company (paid), and the Apprenticeship Program—specifically, strong technical jazz dancers with excellent acting skills. All styles of dance – ballet/tap/hip-hop – are encouraged to apply.

Collide is seeking strong, technical dancers with exceptional acting ability for all roles in our upcoming 2026-2027 season.

Auditions: Thursday, May 21 at 9:30am
Sign up for an audition here. Learn more about Collide here.
Come prepared to dance with a headshot and resume. Pre-registration is required.

2026/2027 Season 13 Schedule:

• Rehearsals are during daytime hours, usually 9:30am-3:30pm
• Special Project: Rehearses September 14-18, with performances throughout the fall
• Mainstage Show 1: Rehearses September 21-October 14, with performances October 15-25
• Holiday Show: Rehearses November 16-December 2, with prior youth rehearsals on Sundays in the fall and performances December 3-6
• Mainstage Show 2: 2027 dates TBD
• Mainstage Show 3: 2027 dates TBD

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.

Collide Apprenticeship Program Auditions: Thursday, May 21 at 9:30am
Sign up for an audition. Please come prepared to dance with a resume and headshot

Education and Performance Experience

Do you have a two-car garage? Do you love the performing arts? Do you enjoy bringing people together? If you answered “yes,” then you could be a great host for the Neighborhood Garage Tour!

Off-Leash Area’s Neighborhood Garage Tour (NGT) is the company’s arts access program, where the company travels from community to community with a truck full of lighting, staging, seating, performers, and more. Each weekend of the NGT, the company transforms a typical two-car garage into a 40-seat black box theater, bringing joy, laughter, and wonder directly into metro neighborhoods.

A Garage Tour Host is a homeowner who, with our support, takes the lead in gathering an audience for the performances on a weekend of the tour. Hosts are encouraged to work with neighbors to help with their duties of promotion and getting the garage ready for the Garage Tour to arrive!
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Off-Leash Area is especially looking for households where a person with disabilities resides, as Off-Leash Area’s mission includes working for equity and opportunity for all persons with all abilities.

Every year, past Garage Tour Hosts have asked to host again!

Off-Leash Area is currently hiring Technical Staff for its 10th anniversary season of the Neighborhood Garage Tour!

• 1 Crew/Box Office/Set-Up Crew Member
• 1 Crew/Set-Up Crew Member
• 1 Technical Director