Professional and amateur dancers alike have the chance to get involved with a new short dance film in Geelong.
Blink Dance Theatre is calling on women and female-identifying dancers to audition for Cloud Chamber, a new community dance film supported by City of Greater Geelong.
Filmed in the Geelong region early next year, the work will explore women’s relationship to nature and the land and their connection to the hidden currents of human experience.
Held at the company’s studio in Rutland Street, Newtown, the auditions will take place on Sunday, October 19.
Blink Dance Theatre founder and artistic director Lyndel Quick said auditions were open to dancers of all ages, backgrounds and level of ability.
“A lot of our work really mixes professional and community dancers together, so we’re looking for diversity of bodies and voices,” she said.
“So they might be trained dancers or they might just be really passionate community movers, which I think really lends itself to the kind of intergenerational feel that we’re looking for.”
Ms Quick said one of the themes of the work would be “women holding up half the sky”, exploring women’s connection to “something vast”.
“Nature itself holds these hidden patterns that perhaps in our human timeframe we don’t fully appreciate or understand,” she said.
“Cloud Chamber is going to suggest a space where unseen forces like lineage, imagination and memory, strength and grief – real grief about the environment – take form and become visible.”
Visit blinkdancetheatre.com.au/audition to apply or for more information.
