April 4, 2006

Dance Audition Links - Part I

This is my first post about how to use the Internet to find dance auditions. In this post I provide my initial impressions of websites with dance audition listings that do not charge you a fee. In upcoming post I'll write about fee-based dance audition listing sites.

Please email me or post comment with your thoughts, additions or corrections.

To get started, I posted messages on three dance message boards saying that I was about to write about how dancers can use the Internet to find auditions. Here are my messages and the responses - Voice of Dance had the largest number of responses:

- Ballet Talk for Dancers

- Critical Dance

- Voice of Dance

Free Audition Listing Sites

(The below listings are not in any particular order - I just listed them as I wrote about each site.)

- Answers4Dancers: A few dance auditions for US East and West Coasts are listed on home page as well as in their free email newsletter. To access the large majority, you'll need to sign-up for their fee-based service. I'll write more about Answers4Dancers in my next post about audition listing sites and services.

- Article19: Page with up-to-date auditions in UK and other European countries.

- Dance Europe: Page of dance auditions in Europe - mostly updated. But some listings are for past events.

- Craiglist: random, scattered, limited number of dance auditions in different cities around the world. Here are sample listings from New York City.

- Pointe Magazine: Message board with audition section. But from my brief browsing, it seems like discussion about auditions and not listings of actual auditions.

- DanceArt.com: Select "Audition Notices" from drop-down list at top of message board. There are posts for auditions but the audition dates appear to have already past for the listings. So not very helpful.

- Dance Magazine: There is no listing of dance auditions - just wanted to include them since their magazine includes extensive audition listings.

- Voice of Dance: Message board with a large number audition listings with primary focus on US West Coast - as with most message board type set-ups, you can't easily figure out when audition dates have passed.

- Critical Dance: Auditions/Opportunities: They list a limited number of company auditions in a single thread, which makes it very tough to find relevant information - most auditions have already passed.

- Elitedance Broadcast Network: Includes links to a large number of audition websites - I should have written about them at the top of this list - but I'm not sure I agree with their rating system. They give Critical Dance a 9 out of 10. I like the Critical Dance message board, but not their audition listings.

- CastingAudition.com: Listings for "dance - live shows" and "dance - filmed/recorded". First searchable database I've come across, but you have to submit your email address and wait for a casting director to get back to you to learn more about a listing that you like - seems like a hassle.

- Dance.net: extensive listing of updated dance auditions in US and Canada with a clear indication of deadline dates.

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