Ballethnic Dance Company is hiring dancers for its 2022/2023 season that begins in mid September. The candidates are signing contracts for 36 weeks at Ballethnic Academy of Dance as choreographers on the Ballethnic Youth Ensemble, which is company’s pre-professional performing group. Accommodation for all candidates will be available at the Ballethnic Artist’s Residence. It is located on the Ballethnic Campus walking distance from the studios. The first performances that candidates will work on, will take place in October and it will consist potential traveling to Toronto, Canada in January. Performances will occur at the Spring with the potential for additional work weeks throughout the Summer. Dancers must have solid ballet technique. Ballet has embraced many cultures and traditions, and evolved. Across the globe, many companies, techniques and methods have been and are and will be established with differences in characteristics and style. And that’s the beauty of it. The company is basically looking for “enthusiastic personality in exploring and expanding the ballet genre”.
The location of Ballethnic Dance Company is Inc. 2587 Cheney Street East Point, Georgia 30344. To apply you can send performance/rehearsal video, your headshot and body shot, bibliography and resume, e-mail and contact information. Anything further you could contact Waverly T. Lucas II/Cofounding Director of the Ballethnic Dance Company Incorporated at
danseurlucas@gmail.com
Ballethnic Academy of Dance is an institution that provides education through the art of dance. Academy offers students an array of courses from ballet and African dance to etiquette and everything else. It is a family-oriented school, and teaches children and adults from a wide range of ethnic and socio-economic backgrounds. Dance training is available for all skill-levels ranging from beginners to professionals. Ballethnic Academy of Dance is a community-conscious component of Ballethnic Dance Company. Ballethnic is a professional ballet company that creates visibility for black dancers who are overlooked. Students of this Academy are having access to classical and contemporary ballet in Atlanta, in studios, stage, behind the scene, among audiences, dance professionals etc…It is the place where there unique, authentic blend of classical ballet and African dance concepts, placing the movements sur la pointe. Ballethnic Academy of Dance is one of the critically acclaimed ballet companies in southeast, that has developed diverse dance audience across the USA. The goal is change for better in the number of black and culturally diverse dancers in mainstream dance companies. The company is nationally recognized in the USA for its principal goal of engaging black and other color dancers solely on their talent and dedication to art. Ballethnic is one of the American schools that increases visibility for Black ballet in Atlanta and throughout the southeast.
You can check it out at
www.ballethnic.org
