Dancer Audition | Alex Ketley | 2018 Festival Performance Opportunity

Men In Dance is seeking male-identifying dancers to perform a new work by Alex Ketley (SF) to premiere at the 2018 Festival this Fall. 
Dancers will receive both a rehearsal and performance stipend for this process. This is a free audition.
AUDITION:
Wednesday, August 29 @ Velocity Dance Center
1621 12th Ave #100, Seattle, WA 98122
Check-in and self warm up, 6:30-7pm; Audition, 7-8pm

Please RSVP at MenInDanceSEA@gmail.com with your resume and headshot. In-person submissions and walk-ups are also accepted.

PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE:
Weekend 1: 
September 28, 7:30pm
September 29, 7:30pm
September 30, 5pm

Weekend 2: 
October 5, 7:30pm
October 6, 7:30pm
October 7, 5pm

TENTATIVE REHEARSAL SCHEDULE:
September 9-22, 2018
Mon/Wed/Fri: 1-5pm
Tues/Thur: 4-8pm

Please direct inquiries to MenInDanceSEA@gmail.com
ABOUT ALEX:
Alex Ketley is an independent choreographer, filmmaker, and the director of The Foundry. Formally a classical dancer with the San Francisco Ballet (1994-1998), he performed a wide range of classical and contemporary repertory with the company in San Francisco and on tour throughout the world. In 1998 he left the San Francisco Ballet to co-found The Foundry in order to explore his deepening interests in choreography, improvisation, mixed media work, and collaborative process. With The Foundry he has been an artist in residence at many leading art institutions including Headlands Center for the Arts (2001 & 2007), Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (2002), The Yard (2003), the Santa Fe Art Institute (2004 and 2006), the Taipei Artist Village (2005), ODC Theater (2006 & 2017), the Ucross Foundation (2007), and the Vermont Performance Lab (2014). The Foundry has produced fifteen full evening length works that have received extensive support from the public, funders, and the press.

As a choreographer independent of his work with The Foundry, Alex Ketley has been commissioned to create original pieces for companies and universities throughout the United States and Europe. For this work he has received acknowledgement from the Hubbard Street National Choreographic Competition (2001), the International Choreographic Competition of the Festival des Arts de Saint-Saveaur (2004), the National Choo-San Goh Award (2005), the inaugural Princess Grace Award for Choreography (2005), the BNC National Choreographic Competition (2008), three CHIME Fellowships (2007, 2008, and 2012), four Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography Residencies (2007, 2009, 2014, and 2015), the Gerbode-Hewlett Choreographer Commissioning Award (2009), and the National Eben Demarest Award (2012). His pieces and collaborations have also been awarded Isadora Duncan Awards in the categories of Outstanding Achievement by an Ensemble (2009), Outstanding Achievement in Choreography (2011), and Outstanding Achievement by a Company (2011 & 2012).