Third Date Added to Local Theatre Mass-Auditions
Because of high demand, ten of Detroit's local theatre companies have now added a 3rd date to their joint general auditions. Appointments are required for all three auditions, made by emailing Frannie Shepard-Bates, Magenta Giraffe Theatre Company Artistic Director, frannie@magentagiraffe.org.
Those dates are:
June 22 and 23, 2010, at the Furniture Factory in Detroit.
June 29, 2010 at the Planet Ant Theatre in Hamtramck.
Here's some more info for potential auditioners:
Theatres attending auditions will be Abreact Performance Space (Detroit), Blackbird Theatre (Ann Arbor), Breathe Art Theatre Project (Detroit/Windsor), Magenta Giraffe Theatre Company (Detroit), Matrix Theatre Company (Detroit) Performance Network (Ann Arbor), Planet Ant Theatre (Hamtramck), Project Theatre (Detroit), Who Wants Cake? Theatre (Ferndale) and Williamston Theatre (Williamston).
Male and female actors over the age of 18 from all racial and ethnic backgrounds are encouraged to attend. Appointments are required; walk-ins are welcome but are not guaranteed a slot. Actors must make appointments by e-mailing frannie@magentagiraffe.org, including in the body of the e-mail full name, desired appointment time and phone number. Headshots and résumés should not be attached to the e-mail. No appointments will be made by phone. There will be a first-come, first-served waiting list at the theatre each night of auditions; we will do our best to see everyone. Actors should also bear in mind that several theatres will be holding additional general auditions, and all theatres will hold callbacks for individual productions.
Actors should prepare two contrasting contemporary monologues no longer than three minutes total. Actors should bring ten sets of headshot/résumé and all schedule conflicts for the season (one set for each attending company).
Cranbrook Welcomes Artist Christopher Ho
The school has just announced that artist, curator, and critic Christopher Ho will be their Critical Studies Teaching Fellow for the 2010-2011 year.
Since 2000, he has taught at the Rhode Island School of Design in the departments of History of Art and Visual Culture, Painting, and Graduate Studies. His many reviews and articles have appeared in Modern Painters, Flash Art, PAJ, and Arco Magazine. Recent curatorial projects include El Museo del Ghetto: Jefferson Pinder and José Ruiz at G Fine Art, Washington, D.C.; JamaicaFlux at JCAL, New York; The Shallow Curator at Winkleman Gallery, New York; Points of View at DAC, New York; Dynasty at Gallery MC, New York; and Jack, at Cuchifritos, New York.
His collaboratively produced art has been featured at the Queens Museum, the Delaware Center for Contemporary Art, the Dallas Contemporary Art Center, as well as internationally at the Freies Museum, Berlin; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Srpska; the Incheon Biennial, Korea; the Busan Biennale, Korea; and the Chinese Biennial, Beijing.
Ho will give 2 lectures at the school, both next fall.
Tuesday, September 21, 2010 at 6 pm
“Curating”
Cranbrook Institute of Science Auditorium
Tuesday, October 26, 2010 at 6 pm
“Collaboration”
Cranbrook Institute of Science Auditorium
A still from Ho's 2008 work, 'Lesbian Mountains in Love'
Living Arts
Living Arts in Southwest Detroit believes that when individuals become involved in creating art, they can not only strengthen their community but possibly even save it. While many of their programs focus on at-risk kids and young adults ages 3-17, they also try to engage people of all ages through events like the upcoming Community Arts Day on Sunday, April 25th.
Detroit Flyhouse, a yoga space in Eastern Market, has been working with Living Arts' girls dance ensemble on a aerial dance piece called A Friend Indeed. Dance Collage will premiere it later this month during Community Arts Day.
