Schism Audition - Workshop call
ilDance is looking for dancers for a new piece titled Schism (working title) which will be developed by Israel Aloni in collaboration with the performers.
Schism will involve three performers, two dancers and one musician. This call is strictly for dancers with interested performers asked to fill in a form here.
Schism deals with the notion of borders and how it impacts the conceptualisation of the world within the huWOman* experience.
In this piece, as a gender-fluid individual who is also a diasporic-nomadic Jew, Aloni is taking on the challenge to describe the world by alternative means.
Despite continuous attempts, modern western societies still view the world as a web of dichotomous binaries.
In an either-or world, there is a certain expectation for there to be a clear line - a border of some kind, which is meant to help us organise the world into comprehensible packages. However, the question remains: where is the border between male and female, between my body and the world, between citizenship and imprisonment, between desire and obsession, between sanity and madness and between us and them?
* HuWOman is a textual adaptation Aloni invented to place the woman within the reference to the human being and subvert the patriarchal power dynamics that still persist in our societies.
Important dates:
Schism will be created in residencies in Europe both in Spring and Fall 2022. The exact dates will be agreed upon in dialogue with the participating artists. It is important for us to collaborate with the artists best suitable for the project so we are glad to practice relative flexibility in the scheduling of the development process to accommodate the needs of all artists involved.
We are planning to have 4-6 weeks of development in total, prior to the final development as mentioned below.
Final development and production week: 12th - 25th September 2022
Premier and Swedish tour: 26th September - 9th October 2022
Potential further touring dates: 10th - 23rd October 2022
The audition-workshop will take place in Berlin on the 18th and 19th December (full days).
Detailed information about the location and exact times will be shared with the invited artists.
We value artists’ time and attention very highly. Therefore, we do not hold open calls and we will only invite a small group of artists to partake in the audition-workshop in Berlin.
Those who will be invited will participate in the full two-day process so they can also have a valuable experience which hopefully is conducive to their ongoing artistic practice, independent of the outcome of the audition-workshop.
This call is for dancers of all gender identities, expressions and presentations exclusive of cis male-identifying artists.
Trans, gender non-binary, gender non-conforming, gender-queer, gender-fluid and agender artists are warmly welcome with us.
Israel Aloni identifies as gender fluid and specifically for the development of Schism they are interested in working with artists who are not male-identifying. This is solely based on Aloni’s belief that it is related to the approach they would like to take on the notion of borders.
Access full details of the call and the form for interested artists here.
Deadline for application: 28th November 2021.
Answers from ilDance, whether you are invited to the audition-workshop or not, by 5th December 2021.
If you have any questions, please contact us at audition@ildance.se.