Danse Libre Auditions 2024-2025
Dancers Wanted!
Join the nation's premier vintage ballroom performing company for our annual auditions. You'll get to learn some challenging choreography from our repertoire and dance with many of our dancers, so bring your dance shoes and be there a bit early to sign in and warm up.
About The Company
Danse Libre brings history to life, by choreographing and performing dances of the Regency Era (1811-1820), Victorian era (1840s-1850s), Ragtime (1910s), the 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, and occasionally other periods as well. We aspire to create a vivid picture of the mayhem and joyful passion of the lively dance halls of days gone by. Distributed among our current membership is a wealth of experience in both period costuming and a wide variety of social dance forms. We rehearse period dances every Monday evening, currently in San Mateo. We perform for festivals, concerts, organizations and charity events throughout the Bay Area.
Commitment
Our repertoire is large (and growing), and our membership is small. We are dependent on a strong commitment to attending weekly rehearsals in order to maintain and expand our repertoire — dancers commit to a full dance season from October 2024 to June 24. Rehearsals run from 7:45 PM to 10:00 PM every Monday in San Mateo. Each dancer is responsible for their own costuming (although new members are not required to get costumes for their first year), in addition to a yearly membership fee that helps cover the costs of rehearsal space.
How to Audition
Come to our dance studio on Monday, October 7th, by 7:45 PM. We'll ask you to fill in an audition form and liability waiver. (We'll have copies for you to fill out in person, but you're welcome to prepare your own copy ahead of time.) Then we'll teach you some of our dances, and give you a chance to dance with current and former members of the group. Selected individuals will be asked back for the second round of auditions in the following weeks. There we'll complete the choreographies and give you a chance to perform. We want to see you shine on stage!
COVID precautions
Masking is now optional for participation. We will provide free surgical masks at auditions if you would like one.
Register your interest
We'd also love to hear that you're interested and planning on auditioning. Please consider filling out this online interest form to let us know to expect you.
If you have any additional questions, you can email: dl-directors@danselibre.org
How to Get There
Auditions are at:
Peninsula Lively Arts (look for the red building entrance marked “Peninsula Ballet
Theatre”)
1880 S Grant St,
San Mateo, CA 94402
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