OPEN DANCE ENSEMBLE is seeking dancers for our forthcoming season. We have one upcoming show scheduled and are planning for additional performance opportunities now that in-person venues are finally opening again. We specialize in self-conducted improvised dance and work closely as a collaborative in both planning and execution. Since we began in 2017, we have created more than a dozen works and performed at Movement Research, GreenSpace Studio, and Jennifer Muller's Studio to name a few venues.The ensemble has always been a volunteer organization, and we pride ourselves on the dedication of our members to the work we create.

“The audition will be in-person: each person must wear a mask for the full duration and take social-distancing precautions.* If interested in auditioning with us, please send your resume, headshot/dance shot, and a video with your performance experience to opendanceensemble@earthlink.net

The Open Dance Ensemble, based in New York City and founded in January 2017, presents live, self-conducted improvised dance performances to share the excitement, joy, and beauty of dance with our audiences. Following in the footsteps of the Judson Church Theater, where improvisation first became a part of modern dance in 1962, and drawing upon Karl Berger's Creative Music Studio conducted music improvs which began in 1974, the Open Dance Ensemble created self-conducted improvisation, a new form of dance choreography in which the dancers not only improvise but also conduct each other as the performance unfolds. 

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Although we are most interested in the aesthetics of dance, our philosophy and collaborative way of creating and performing may be viewed as a metaphor for social/political organization and as such relevant to many issues of the day.