Southeastern to hold community dance auditions for “Bayourella”
Friday, September 2, 2016
by: Tonya Lowentritt
HAMMOND – Southeastern Louisiana University’s resident student dance company, Dance
Performance Project, will hold contemporary dance auditions for community dancers
on Saturday, Sept. 10, for an upcoming performance in October.
Called “Bayourella: A Story of Forgiveness,” the concert will be directed by
Dance Instructor Skip Costa. The production, dcheduled Oct. 5, 6 and 7, will also
include original music performed live, original costume designs, and a set that includes
a 25-foot dock over the bayou.
“‘Bayourella: a Story of Forgiveness’” is an InterARTS™ performance approach
to movement creation being developed by Costa that fuses the elements of dance, music,
theatre, and visual arts for a true kinesthetic experience for the audience, usually
within a very emotional journey through the human condition,” said Dance Coordinator
Martie Fellom. “In this production, one of the aspects that Skip is focusing on is
the complexity and cruelness of Bayourella’s step-mother’s life in order to define
her treatment towards Bayourella.”
Auditions are open to community dancers in grades 6 - 12 and will be conducted
in the dance studio in the Kinesiology and Health Studies Building. Students interested
in auditioning should pre-register by emailing Fellom at martie.fellom@southeastern.edu with their name and current grade level.
Students attending the audition will be taught several short movement phrases
and should wear something that shows their form, especially the upper body torso.
Auditions for community dancers are scheduled from 11 a.m. to noon. Dancers should
arrive by 10:45 a.m.
Community dancer rehearsals are scheduled 10:45 – noon on two Saturdays - Sept.
24 and Oct. 1.
For more information, contact Fellom at martie.fellom@southeastern.edu.
