Audition and Casting Information
Dance Concert Fall 2024 Cast List
David Azcone
Abby Bernesky
James Bilbruck
Giula Brady
Giovani Cadet
Maggie Cantwell
Emma Cassertano
Gavin Connor
Sydney Cox
Maddie DiGaetano
Christina Etienne
Bella Ferrity
Ann Hoye
Kevin Luck
Maddie MacLellan
Amanda Marko
Emma Mastoros
Anabel Moda
Taylor Ostrowski
Jaria Rantanen
Salvatore Romania
Jillian Rubino
Harper Saxon
Summer Turczynski
Sophia Varon-Fowler
- Thank you to everyone who auditioned, as well as thank you for your willingness and spirit as we are trying a new audition process, casting and rehearsal schedule.
- We will begin rehearsals on Friday, February 23, 2024.
- We are accommodating all schedule conflicts as possible for this semester.
- Covers will be assigned from the full cast as we move forward.
- You all did amazing work at auditions and I wish we could have cast you all!
- Please initial every place your name appears to inform us of your acceptance of the role(s).
- If you need any more information before signing, please reach out for clarity.
- Here are the individual compositions you are agreeing to perform in.
lure/lyre,
Choreography by Melissa West
Giula Brady
Giovani Cadet
Emma Cassertano
Gavin Connor
Sydney Cox
Amanda Marko
Summer Turczynski
Meaning in the Mundane, Choreography by Elliott Keller
James Bilbruck
Maggie Cantwell
Kevin Luck
Maddie MacLellan
Jaria Rantanen
Jillian Rubino
Sophia Varon-Fowler
Untitled
Choreography by Rusty Curcio and guest artist
David Azcone
Abby Bernesky
James Bilbruck
Maddie DiGaetano
Christina Etienne
Bella Ferrity
Ann Hoye
Kevin Luck
Emma Mastoros
Anabel Moda
Taylor Ostrowski
Salvatore Romania
Harper Saxon
Seven Deadly Sins,
Choreographed by Elle Quimet, Emily Durkin, Kevin Luck and others along with Rusty Curcio along with the cast.
David Azcone
Abby Bernesky
James Bilbruck
Giovani Cadet
Maddie DiGaetano
Christina Etienne
Bella Ferrity
Ann Hoye
Maddie MacLellan
Amanda Marko
Emma Mastoros
Anabel Moda
Taylor Ostrowski
Jaria Rantanen
Jillian Rubino
Summer Turczynski
Harper Saxon
Morso D’Amore,
Choreography by Caterina Rago
James Bilbruck
Giula Brady
Giovani Cadet
Kevin Luck
Maddie MacLellan
Taylor Ostrowski
Jaria Rantanen
Salvatore Romania
Jillian Rubino
Harper Saxon
Summer Turczynski
Sophia Varon-Fowler
Note: It was not possible to cast Royal Fireworks as planned. Not enough folks auditioned for the project. This did not enable the ability to cast the requirements of the work. A shift will be made and create another original work.
Audition signups are now closed. Please check in at 7:30 in Aerobics with Allison Borio if you wish to be added.
Note:
This project will be explorative in nature and decisions will be made throughout the process to help discover the best work of each choreographer and dancer.
Willingness, creativity, and bravery will be paramount when casting this work.
Dancers of all skill levels will be considered. Pease do not hesitate to audition!
If nothing else, it will be a free class and certainly a chance to hone your audition skills.
We will begin rehearsals in the Spring 2024 semester on Friday afternoons only. In the Fall of 2024, we will rehearse on Tuesday and Wednesday evenings and continue with the Friday afternoon 12-5 pm rehearsals. The goal is to not over stress dancers’ bodies and pace the work out to allow the creative spirit to emerge with time to reflect, recover, and rework material.
The auditions will begin with a 30-minute beg-intermediate warm-up for all levels of dancers. We will look at how well you know your body and understand the craft of dance/movement. You may modify any section of the warm-up to suit your skill level.
After the warm-up, you will be taught short movement sequences to help each choreographer make decisions. If callbacks are needed, each choreographer will work with individuals to explore more detailed work specific to their compositional needs.
Initial Auditions are Friday, January 26th, from 12-5 pm, and callbacks will be Wednesday, January 31, from 6:30-10:30
The Works:
Meaning in Mundane (Working Title)
Choreography by Elliott Keller
Using the cyclical/repetitive nature of house/electronic music as a foundation, I will work with the students to explore similar ideas of cycles in their daily lives and the world around them. What more is there to be discovered inside of a repetitive act? What more can we learn about ourselves as we persevere and find the novelty within the mundane? Though house music may seem mostly unchanging, there are subtle shifts that emerge as the song progresses, and sometimes we find ourselves somewhere completely different without even noticing. The movement language will be generated collaboratively by taking choreography from daily routines and abstracting it to make phrase work.
6-10 Dancers
Original Music
10- minutes long
Lure/Lyre – (working title)
Choreography by Melissa West
This composition will explore the edges and boundaries between body and environment, earth and sea, and the psychological states we shift in and out of as humans. There will be a focus on the tension and relationship between the individual, collective, and surrounding space. It will be an abstract, conceptual dancer rooted in a post-modern/contemporary vocabulary. It will emphasize musicality and physicality, exploring group, partner, and solo moments. Additional inspirations for this composition will include sirens and sea monsters in folklore, the sailor’s knot, and the lunar rhythms of the tide
5-7 dancers
Royal Fireworks
Choreography by Rusty Curcio
This composition was originally choreographed in 1998 restaged in 2001 and 2006 for Wagner College. The music is a suite in D major for wind instruments composed in 1749 for the fireworks celebration in London’s Green Park. The music was to celebrate the end of the War of the Austrian Succession and the signing of the Treaty of the Aix-la-Chapelle in 1748. The work was successful at its time of creation and lives on today in the modern-day Baroque repertoire.
This music moved me early in my career, and I had always wanted to reimagine the orchestral composition in movement. The movement language is based on contemporary ballet and pedestrian/contemporary movement. The work pays homage to the genius of George Balanchine, Paul Taylor, and Mark Morris. Although there is an abstract underplot about the cycle of life, death, and rebirth, the work Is primarily a celebration of the music. The work includes group, solo, and duet/partnering movements and is an overall ensemble piece.
Music – Music for the Royal Fireworks by Frederick Handel
13 Dancers – a mix of male and female presenting dancers.
12 minutes long
Morso D’Amore
Choreography by Caterina Rago
Morso D’Amore, a ballet powerful for its use of confrontation and subterfuge. Upending the classic tarantella —a dance rooted in the traditions of Southern Italy during the 15th to 17th centuries, Morso D’Amore is a contemporary work that speaks to the uncertainties and anxieties of our time. Morso D’Amore is based on the tarantella’s history as a curative dance meant to rid the body of the tarantula’s poisonous bite. It was said that three or four days of dancing in a trance-like state relieves the body of physical and psychological trauma. In Morso D’Amore the dance is imagined as a state of ecstasy or rebellion, recalling a strange imprisonment. A cycle of capture and release is at hand in this complex work that crosses global cultures to examine personal and political crisis and the desire to hunt for a cure.
Morso D’Amore is a full-length ballet of 90 minutes. Caterina with continue excerpting from the full ballet to make a longer work for presentation.
12 Dancers
*All the dancers who worked on the material and performed as part of the Choreography Originals will automatically be cast in this work if they are interested. Any graduating senior will be recast with new dancers.
The Seven Deadly Sins
This will be a process-oriented collaboration between students, faculty members, and a composer. The goal is to select 4-5 student choreographers to work along with mentors and creative artists to create a full work exploring the essence of the Seven Deadly Sins.
16 dancers.
Music will be composed by Josh Sotille
Here is an outline of the audition and rehearsal schedule you will be expected to be available for:
Spring 24-Fall 24 dance Concert suggestions rehearsal/production dates:
Auditions:
Friday – January 26th, 12:00-5:00 pm
Wednesday – January 31, 6:30-10:30
Spring 2024 – Friday from 12-5 pm
February 23 Aerobic Studio 12-5 pm
March 1 Aerobic Studio 12-5 pm
March 8 Aerobic Studio 12-5 pm
March 15 Aerobic Studio 12-5 pm
April 5 Aerobic Studio 12-5 pm
April 12 Aerobic Studio 12-5 pm
April 19 Aerobic Studio 12-5 pm
April 26 Aerobic Studio 12-5 pm
May 3 Aerobic Studio 12-5 pm
Fall 2024 – Rehearsal Schedule
Tues 6:30-10:30 pm) Wednesday (6:30-10:30 pm) Friday (12-5 pm)
September 3 September 4 September 6
September 10 September 11 September 13
September 17 September 18 September 20
September 24 September 25 September 27 (Design Run)
October 1O October 26, October 4
(Afternoon and evening?)
Saturday or Sunday (opposite of the other show)
October 5 or 6 – 12-5 pm (in the aerobics studio)
Dance Tech (6:30-10:30 pm)
Tuesday, Wednesday Thursday Friday
October 8 October 9 October 10 October 11
Fall Break
Tuesday (6:30-10:30 pm) Wednesday 6:30-10:30 pm)
October 15 October 16
Performances:
Thursday, Friday Saturday Sunday
October 17 October 18 October 19 October 20
8:00 pm 8:00pm 2 pm/8pm 2 pm
Audition signups are now closed. Please check in at 7:30 in Aerobics with Allison Borio if you wish to be added.