Ballet Hispánico In-Person Open Audition for Male-Identifying Dancer

Ballet Hispánico is seeking a male-identifying dancer to join the Professional Company to begin immediately in preparation for the 2021-2022 national touring season. Open auditions will be held on Tuesday, September 28, 2021 at 12noon ET at Ballet Hispánico, 167 W. 89th Street, NYC. The audition is FREE and open to all male-identifying dancers ages 18+. As part of the BH familia, the dancer will have the opportunity to perform on New York City's greatest stages, tour nationwide, and share the depth and breadth of Latinx cultures through hands-on programming with communities of all abilities, backgrounds, and needs.

Dancers are required to wear a mask throughout the entirety of the audition, show proof of vaccination, and provide a headshot and resume. There will be no warm-up or class the day of the audition. Dancers should arrive warm and prepared to dance. Please bring printed copies of your headshot and resume. No fee is required. Visit https://www.ballethispanico.org/company/artistic/auditions to learn more or e-mail questions to auditions@ballethispanico.org.

About Ballet Hispánico

For more than fifty years, Ballet Hispánico has been the leading voice intersecting artistic excellence and advocacy and is now the largest Latinx cultural organization in the United States and one of America's Cultural Treasures. Ballet Hispánico brings communities together to celebrate and explore Latino cultures through innovative dance productions, transformative dance training, and enduring community engagement experiences. National Medal of Arts recipient Tina Ramirez founded Ballet Hispánico in 1970, at the height of the post-war civil rights movements. From its inception Ballet Hispánico focused on providing a haven for Black and Brown Latinx youth and families seeking artistic place and cultural sanctuary. By providing the space for Latinx dance and dancers to flourish, Ballet Hispánico uplifted marginalized emerging and working artists, which combined with the training, authenticity of voice, and power of representation, fueled the organization's roots and trajectory. In 2009, Ballet Hispánico welcomed Eduardo Vilaro as its Artistic Director, ushering in a new era by inserting fresh energy to the company's founding values and leading Ballet Hispánico into an artistically vibrant future. Today, Ballet Hispánico's New York City headquarters house a School of Dance and state-of-the-art dance studios for its programs and the arts community. From its grassroots origins as a dance school and community-based performing arts troupe, for fifty years Ballet Hispánico has stood as a catalyst for social change. Ballet Hispánico provides the physical home and cultural heart for Latinx dance in the United States. Ballet Hispánico has developed a robust public presence across its three main programs: its Company, School of Dance, and Community Arts Partnerships. Through its exemplary artistry, distinguished training program, and deep-rooted community engagement efforts Ballet Hispánico champions and amplifies underrepresented voices in the field. For fifty years Ballet Hispánico has provided a place of hon-or for the omitted, overlooked, and oppressed. As it looks to the next fifty years and beyond, Ballet Hispánico seeks to empower, and give agency to, the Latinx experience and those individuals within it.