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THE SPARROW - The Southern Theater Non Equity Auditions

Posted January 24, 2016
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THE SPARROW - The Southern Theater
February activities: Mpls Auditions for The Sparrow and workshop in NYC with Jeff Wirth to explore interactive theater techniques. We hope to see you see you in either apple.
Auditions
When:
Fri., Feb. 12th -- 6:30-8pm OR 8:30-10pm
?@ The Ivy Arts Building, studio 200g
Sat., Feb. 13th -- 9:45am-noon (callbacks)
@ The Southern Theater

Who we seek:
An ensemble of performers of diverse artistic backgrounds and talents, with a ferocity for poetic creativity, rigor in achieving physical and emotional specificity, and a boldness to create collaboratively. Dancers, clowns, improvisers, multi-disciplinary artists, actors, magicians, circus generalists, burlesque performers and musicians are encouraged to attend. The project will involve various degrees of audience involvement.

To audition:

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to fill in your information, choose a time slot and read more important details including location, and rehearsal and performance schedule. Wear comfortable clothing and be prepared to move and play. You may be asked to improvise, devise in small groups, dance, and sing.

Behind the name:
Sea-weary sailors regard the arrival of a sparrow as the harbinger of a journey's end. With it, momentum recycles, and a new journey begins.The
Sparrow is a portrait of explosive expression and celebrates a world of infinite possibilities. Aesthetically, it harnesses styles of clown, dance, and song through a series of self-contained, yet uncannily connected vignettes.

Ways of working:
What can happen when the ecstasy of change is within grasp? We invite you to explore this proposition and others with us in a creation-process of collaboration and devising through improvisation and exercises.
The Sparrow premieres at The Southern Theater May 6-20, 2016.
photo: Eric Melzer

Workshop
February 23-29 -- Noah Bremer and Joanna Harmon of Live Action Set and Tyler Olsen of Dangerous Productions are traveling to NYC and we hope you can come play! Join us in learning from and experimenting with Jeff Wirth during this intensive week on interactive performance techniques.
Sign up here!

***Space is limited. To be a participant, you must be able to attend the whole workshop series, February 23 - 29, 1:30 - 5:00pm. If you can't make all the dates, click on the Visitor's tab at the bottom of the spreadsheet to sign up to come and observe and play for individual days.***

We will continue to develop our creative working vocabulary of “interactive” performance by playing with brand-new material. This style is important to us, because it expands audience members' creative potential within themselves. Upon our return to our home-base, we look forward to presenting to Minnesotan audiences more acutely designed performances within the “interactive” style.

Guiding the week is Jeff Wirth, one of our greatest mentors, our dear friend, and one of the leading professional in “interactive performance with knowledge built over his life-long career experimenting with performance techniques to profoundly engage audiences.

The workshop is free but donations are appreciated and go towards compensating Jeff and our workshop space hosts.

More About Jeff:
He is the Chief Creative Officer of Wirth Creative and the Artistic Director of Playing with Reality in New York City, where he develops improvised interactive story experiences for entertainment, simulation, and research. He has consulted for such top-tier clients as Cirque du Soleil, Blue Man Group, and Disney Imagineering and has directed over 100 improvisational shows. For 9 years, Wirth served as a faculty member at the University of Central Florida and has led master classes at universities and festivals across the United States.

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