AUDITIONS: For Performance Mentorship Opportunity
Noon to 3PM | October 11, 2008
AUSTIN, TX | Location TBA
Contact sharon AT sharonbridgforth dot com for more information or to schedule an audition.

CASTING FOR SHARON BRIDGFORTH’S NEWEST WORK delta dandi.
NEEDED: Three singers, three dancers, two actors.

Bridgforth is looking for Austin based emerging artists who are available/interested in working as a mentee (no pay) to perform in a Staged Reading of delta dandi (10/19) and to work in supporting roles with the delta dandi premiere cast.

Must be available to work:
10/12 2PM - 6PM
10/13, 10/14, 10/15, 10/17 6:30PM - 9PM
10/18. 2PM-6PM
10/19Noon - 5:30
AND
(times TBA): 12/28 - 1/10

The delta dandi Staged Reading is sponsored by allgo (Austin’s Queer People of Color Organization) and The Center for African and African American Studies University of Texas Austin.

*Women & Their Work will present the delta dandi premiere at the Long Center 1/9 & 1/10 2009 Featuring: Helga Davis, Baraka de Soleil, Florinda Bryant & Sonja Perryman. Conducted by Sharon Bridgforth. DETAILS SOON COME

Written by Sharon Bridgforth, *delta dandi is a weave of monologues, chants, choral tellings, blood memory and song delta dandi asks “How does collective grief and trauma inform the African American experience?” delta dandi invokes the Transmigration of a Spirit’s journey as she walks towards Transformation and Love….

*delta dandi is a National Performance Network Creation Fund Project co-commissioned by Women & Their Work, in partnership with Center On Halsted and the National Performance Network. Major contributors of the National Performance Network are Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, Ford Foundation, Nathan Cummings Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts (a federal agency). For more information: npnweb.org