Fall Dance Production–Call for Student Performers!
Announcement of Casting Workshop
THDN 309-02 FALL DANCE PRODUCTION:
Offertory: Liturgy|Order|Bridge
Directed by Deborah Goffe
Visiting Associate Professor of Theater and Dance
Casting Workshop
WHEN: Monday September 12, 6:30-8:30pm
Wednesday September 14, 6:30-8:30pm*
*Please hold the second date open for a (possible) follow-up workshop.
WHERE: Performance Lab, Trinity Commons, rm. 152
WHO: Open to all students! Professor Goffe is looking to cast between 5-10 performers who will collaborate in movement and vocal work (song and text), and object making for the project.
Sign up here: https://forms.gle/G9PytoD9CSWkLoWLA, or Just show up, all are welcome!
(If the link above does not work, use this address: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSczx_rrUx7jkGieYEpvM0ENhKfGQJwd0nGAFA2XgYeoIcNnIA/viewform )
Weekly rehearsals for Offertory will begin the week of September 19, exact date/time to be determined. Public performances will take place December 2-3, 2022 (Fri&Sat 7:30pm and Sat 2pm). Students involved in this production will receive (0.50) course credit. All participants will be asked to commit fully to the production schedule, details of which will be shared at the casting workshop.
For questions or more information, please write to Professor Deborah Goffe at [email protected].
ABOUT OFFERTORY
“Offertory” will grow out of (and feed) the development of “Liturgy|Order|Bridge,” Scapegoat Garden’s in-process collaborative performance project that invokes the intimacies of care practices, the contrasting spectacle (and absurdities) of religious ritual, and the communal embodiment of black church traditions. In “Offertory” we will employ movement, song, text, object making to ask: What might it mean to engage dance practice as faith practice, performance as communal ceremony, performance space as consecrated site, and audience as a fellowship of shared witness, place, and legacy? How might we nurture shared, though distinct, responsibilities for the dynamism and consequence of the encounter between performance and audience? What is the potential of an organized body of practitioners devoted to facilitating the threshold between performance and the rest of life?
