Safos Dance Theatre is a small emerging non-profit dance company founded in Tucson, AZ in 2009.
We collaborate with other Latinx serving and/or AZ-based organizations to offer programs that fulfill our mission. 

Safos Dance Theatre is holding open auditions for highly skilled and experienced dancers with a strong technical background for paid company positions for the national tour of Stories from Home. Company and Apprentice positions are available. Position requires a two-year commitment. Contract runs from January 2025-December 2026.

 

Searching for dancers with strong technical background in modern or contemporary dance with integrity, strong artistry, and exceptional performance skills. Dancers must be open to performing on traditional concert dance stages as well as outside in the desert, in museums, in classrooms, in hotels, and in high school auditoriums. Looking for dancers who are easy going, flexible, kind, open, and authentic. Dancers must be willing to try new foods, meet new people, and devise work with community dancers. Looking for dancers who possess a love of travel (especially road trips). A willingness to be involved in the behind the scenes aspect of the tour is a must. 

 

Date: February 11th, 2025

Time: 9:00am - 10:30am

Location: Invictus Dance Project

Address: 6309 N 7th St, Phoenix, AZ 85014

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The audition will include participating in company class, register today. 

 

Registration Link

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Requirements:

• Must be ages 18+

• Must be willing and capable to travel domestically and internationally for performances

• Must be available to travel to rehearsals in Phoenix and other locations throughout the Southwest

• Must be eligible to work for a US-based employer and hold a valid passport

• Must be able to learn from video

• Must be self motivated 

• Must be comfortable, respectful and positive while working in new communities 

• Must be able to communicate clearly and in a timely manner and maintain an up-to-date dancer calendar for touring

Preferred:

• Dancers with previous touring experience

• Bilingual Spanish/English

• Dancers available to travel for long periods of time 

• Dancers willing to drive and hold a valid US license

 

For questions and more information, please contact: baylie@yvonnemontoya.co

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About the project: Stories from Home  is a series of dances embodying the oral traditions of Nuevomexicano, Chicano, and Mexican American communities in the American Southwest. Choreographer Yvonne Montoya, a 23rd-generation Nuevomexicana, and an all-Mexican American cast of dancers draw upon personal histories and ancestral knowledge, including stories from Montoya’s great-grandmother, grandmother, great-aunts, and father. With palpable theatricality, moving spoken word, a movement aesthetic informed by vibrant ancestral and contemporary sources, and universal themes of love, family, and home, Stories from Home  brings largely underrepresented Southwest Latino American experiences and histories to the stage.Themes in Stories from Home include: The Bracero Program, 1940s Americanization programs, the creation of the Atomic Bomb in Northern New Mexico, family, love, and querencia.

About the company: Safos was founded in 2009 by Yvonne Montoya (Nuevomexicana/Xicana) and Michele Orduña (Tohono O’Odham) to provide a space for dance artists with the aim of moving towards racial, ethnic and geographic equality in dance. Safos’ mission is to create contemporary artistic forms that reflect the common experiences of our diverse community. Focusing predominantly on Latine dance artists, Safos focuses on encouraging innovative movements and embracing the use of aesthetics and art forms unique to the Southwest to represent the cultural diversity of the US/Mexico borderlands.