Dance Magazine: With more talented dancers competing for fewer jobs, audition season has become a gauntlet of overcrowded open calls and time-consuming self-tapes. Could auditions be more productive and less painful, for performers and hiring teams alike? A group of high-level performers and choreographers weigh in on their biggest audition issues—and offer solutions.
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I think this is a very important topic people need to speak about more. Dance auditions, especially with huge audition calls, are extremely physically and mentally taxing. It takes such a level of grit and stamina to run the same choreography over and over again as you lose energy resulting in the choreography slowly getting poorer. I think it's smart to take previously recorded dance tapes more seriously, but its difficult because you need to see how dancers are affected by repeating choreography in a stressful environment. On top of that, its crucial to meet the people you could possibly cast in person. Al Blackstone’s solution seems almost absolutely obvious to the issue of overcrowded audition spaces. Having more audition days would let directors and producers have so much more information about each dancer, and be able to make such a better call. Not to mention this could improve dancers' stress and just general dancing ability.
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