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Danse Libre Auditions 2023-2024



Dancers Wanted!

Join the nation's premier vintage ballroom performing company for our annual auditions. You'll get to learn some challenging choreography from our repertoire and dance with many of our dancers, so bring your dance shoes and be there a bit early to sign in and warm up.

About The Company

Danse Libre brings history to life, by choreographing and performing dances of the Regency Era (1811-1820), Victorian era (1840s-1850s), Ragtime (1910s), the 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, and occasionally other periods as well. We aspire to create a vivid picture of the mayhem and joyful passion of the lively dance halls of days gone by. Distributed among our current membership is a wealth of experience in both period costuming and a wide variety of social dance forms. We rehearse period dances every Monday evening in Palo Alto. We perform for festivals, concerts, organizations and charity events throughout the Bay Area.

Commitment

Our repertoire is large (and growing), and our membership is small. We are dependent on a strong commitment to attending weekly rehearsals in order to maintain and expand our repertoire — dancers commit to a full dance season from October 2023 to June 24. Rehearsals run from 7:45 PM to 10:00 PM every Monday in Foster City. Each dancer is responsible for their own costuming, in addition to a yearly membership fee that helps cover the costs of rehearsal space.

How to Audition

Come to our dance studio on Monday, September 25th, by 7:45 PM. We'll ask you to fill in an audition form, and then we'll teach you some of our dances, and give you a chance to dance with current and former members of the group. Selected individuals will be asked back for the second round of auditions in the following weeks. There we'll complete the choreographies and give you a chance to perform. We want to see you shine on stage!

COVID precautions

To participate in auditions this year, we will ask you to present a proof of COVID vaccination (digital copies accepted).

Contact us

We'd also love to hear that you're interested and planning on auditioning. Please email dl-directors@danselibre.org to let us know to expect you.

How to Get There

Spirit Room
William E. Walker Recreation Center
650 Shell Blvd, Foster City, CA 94404

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