ABOUT
Boston Dance Theater (BDT) seeks versatile dance artists with strong technical, creative, and performance abilities for Apprentice and Trainee Program positions with a September 2, 2025 start date.
APPRENTICE
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This position is suitable for dancers who have completed their formative training, have engaged in at least one year of post-study, pre-professional experience within the field of contemporary dance performance, and are seeking an opportunity to deepen their professional experience within a repertory dance company environment.
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Apprentices train and rehearse alongside the main company during all rehearsal weeks
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May include opportunities to perform and tour with the company. If invited to perform with the company, all non-local touring activities include accommodation and travel paid for by the company.
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Apprentice positions receive stipends for performances and projects. Additional compensation may be provided on a project-by-project basis, should funding allow.
At this audition, BDT will also consider artists to join the Trainee Program with a September 2, 2025 start date:
TRAINEE PROGRAM
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Boston Dance Theater Trainee Program bridges the gap between a dancer’s formative training and professional or collegiate pursuits. BDT’s philosophy and process stretches the self-imposed limits of developing artists both physically and mentally as performers and co-creators, emboldening them to fearlessly take their place in the 21st century dance landscape.
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The Trainee Program is a full time, 11-month educational experience that is immersive and designed for pre-professional dancers aged 17-24 who aspire to join a professional dance company and want to take a gap year between high school or college and entering the professional world. The year consists of 3 trimesters during which trainees take company class, rehearse, perform, create, and teach alongside BDT’s main company.
BDT’s 2025/26 repertory includes work by Karole Armitage, Rena Butler, Rosie Herrera, Alessandro Sousa Pereira, Jessie Jeanne Stinnett, Marco Goecke, Micaela Taylor, Yin Yue, Roya Carreras, and Itzik Galili. Dancers should familiarize themselves with the work of these choreographers in advance of the audition.
Interested dancers are encouraged to apply for BDT’s Winter Immersion Project (January 2-5) to gain more experience with the company’s artistic process prior to the audition. WIP Applications are being accepted until: December 16, 2024 at 11:59PM EST.
COMMITMENT TO DIVERSITY
Boston Dance Theater is committed to fostering an environment of diversity and inclusion for all. As we seek to build the most complementary team when it comes to skill, perspective, and experience, we strongly encourage candidates from underrepresented communities to apply.
AUDITION INFO
WHEN: January 5, 2025 - 12:30PM-2:30PM
Registration begins at 12:00PM
WHERE: The Dance Complex - 536 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139
No application fee