AUDITION CALL OUT
ACCA DANCE THEATRE are looking to meet artists with strong acting, movement and devising skills for projects from 2025 onwards.
Inline with our previous work, we are looking primarily for Northern based artists to continue championing talent retention in the north, and those aged 30+. Although our work often centres on female narratives, you do not need to identify as a woman to apply and we encourage applications from the global majority, those that identify as d/Deaf, disabled or neurodivergent and from underrepresented groups for the following funding dependent projects:
Cautivas - Summer 2025 tbc
CAUTIVAS - Spanish for Captives - is set in a dystopian world where any form of art and culture has been outlawed. In this context of censorship, alienation and repression, an artist and an active member of the resistance, abducts a high ranking politician from the dictatorial elite and attempts to rehabilitate them into the arts. The show will focus on the transformative powers of the arts as a vehicle for critical thinking, social justice, free speech, dialogue, self expression and connection with others.
Female Heroes 2025
The third instalment in a trilogy of works in collaboration between ACCA Dance Theatre and Vier D Performing Arts. This diverse, intergenerational show featuring professional and community UK and German performers will champion female figures past and present and reimagine what it means to be a superhero through comedy, movement and voice
Pay will be inline with equity recommendations plus holiday pay, travel, accommodation and per diems where applicable.
Essential criteria:
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Have a permanent address in the North of England
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Are aged 30+
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Strong physicality and movement skills
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Strong performing skills
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Experience with collaborative processes to devise work
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Experience working with narratives and character
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Comfortable working with text and voice
Preferable criteria:
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Experience working with comedy and clowning
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Facilitation and delivery experience
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Comfortable singing/playing an instrument
ACCA Dance Theatre encourages applications from the global majority and from underrepresented groups.
About ACCA:
ACCA Dance Theatre are Leeds based duo Anna Cabré-Verdiell Bosch and Charlotte Arnold. Led by two female-identifying creative leaders, ACCA makes work that reflects and comments on contemporary society via funny, thought-provoking dance theatre performances and participation activities. Their style has a physical backbone, drawing on character and conceptuality to investigate the topics which inspire each project. As a trilingual company, ACCA weaves both Spanish and English culture and narratives into the work, as well as championing and celebrating femininity. Community practice is also embedded into ACCA’s work, and they have delivered workshops in primary, secondary schools, FE and HE colleges, in addition to working with diverse, intergenerational community dancers as performers in their own projects.
ACCA is a resident company at Slung Low. Previously commissioned by Ilkley Literature Festival to make the short dance film EVEolution, they also won the Leeds Summer Group Show in 2020 with their dance film ACCA Danst, and received Arts Council England funding for a R&D of Cautivas, a new project for 2021. The fifteen minute version of Occupational Hazard, ACCA's first sketch was programmed across Yorkshire at Ripon Theatre Festival, Yorkshire Dance, Rural Arts and Grassington International Festival amongst others. After receiving funding from ACE, ACCA developed Occupational Hazard into a full length show which premiered in December 2022 opened by a community curtain raiser at Slung Low. 2023, saw ACCA join forces with German company Vier-D, creating Femxle Spaces as part of Leeds 2023, Dortmund Festival and funded by Cultural Bridge and Dortmund City Council. Their collaboration continues with a new international project My Body is My Castle telling stories about female bodies over 2024, whilst Occupational Hazard, hailed by The Stage as “deeply moving and furiously funny” tours nationally in an ACE funded pilot tour, and made its premiere at the Edinburgh Fringe, programmed by Dance Base and Assembly with support from the Keep It Fringe fund.
To apply please fill out the following form: https://forms.gle/AUGQwEg98N8AYdLn7
You will be asked to submit:
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Short paragraph on why you are interested in working with us
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CV
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One video link about relevant and recent performance work
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Completed equal opportunities form: https://forms.gle/6FbVEGNNQcAyNnyZ9
Application deadline: 5pm on Saturday 31st August 2024
All applicants will be notified by Friday 13th September 2024
Shortlisted applicants will be invited to an informal audition workshop on Saturday 5th October 2024, 10am - 4pm in Leeds.
If you would like to submit your application in a different format, or have any questions please contact us on sayhelloacca@gmail.com and we will be happy to help.