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.
Audition for Paula Mann’s 45th anniversary concert work, Everything And Nothing, to be performed at The Southern Theater on October 2-4.
The audition is Saturday, March 29 from 2:00-4:00pm at the Arena Dance space.
Rehearsals are in July, August, and September.
Paid rehearsal and performance.
Email Paula for more information at pmann102@gmail.com.
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.
Audition Wednesday, April 16 to part of the onstage cast with the stellar professional dancers of American Ballet Theatre in the Northrop presentations of Giselle.
Auditions open to males ages 8 and up and females ages 14 and up to appear onstage with the amazing dancers of American Ballet Theatre. 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:
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.
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.
These workshops will focus on composition, collaboration and performance quality through movement. The work is also seeking collaborators of multidisciplinary practice, including music, voice acting, ceremonialists, and 3D visual artists. Artists who are not primarily movement artists are welcome to join the workshop and tailor in a self directed or discipline specific way.
If you are not a movement artist who would like to express interest there is a place to do so on this form.
Audition for Paula Mann’s 45th anniversary concert work: Everything And Nothing, to be performed at The Southern Theater on October 2-4.
The audition is Saturday, March 29 from 2:00-4:00pm at the Arena Dance space.
Rehearsals are in July, August and September.
Paid rehearsal and performance.
Email Paula for more information at pmann102@gmail.com.
Zenon Dance seeks to establish a pool of qualified dance educator/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 bring together 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.
Supernumeraries (extras) are needed for American Ballet Theatre’s Giselle, presented April 18-19 at Northrop. No dance experience is necessary to audition and be part of the onstage cast with the stellar professional dancers of American Ballet Theatre.
Audition: Wednesday, April 16
Children’s check-in: 5:00pm
Children’s audition: 5:30-8:00pm
Age 14-Adult check-in: 5:30pm
Age 14-Adult audition: 6:00-8:30pm
Roles are available for boys approximately aged 8-13, and teen boys and men ages 14 to mature—various body types, heights, and ages— and teen girls and women ages 14 to mature with a height of 5’5”–5’10” and various body types. All supers must be able to attend all rehearsals and performances.
Dance experience is not required, but acting experience is helpful. There is no fee for participation. Supernumeraries are volunteers and do not receive financial compensation. Those who audition will be asked to sign a photo/video release. For additional information, please email mvorhis@umn.edu.