Audition Series: STEAMROLLER
Sunday, August 27 1:30-3:30pm
The ODC School Audition Series brings dancers and choreographers together in a class context.
STEAMROLLER Dance Company is looking for new dancers, both men and women for the company’s 2018 performance season. The company is especially interested in working with people of color and LGBTQ identified performers. But if you’re not, don’t let that stop you. We are looking for dancers who can handle the company's deeply physical movement style. Technical proficiency is not as important as your ability to pick up and retain choreography, to think on your feet and your overall performance diva-ness! And a sense of inappropriate humor doesn’t hurt either.
The company is looking for collaborators for a performance scheduled for January 11th and 12th and for their upcoming 2018 season including the 2018 SF International Arts Festival at Fort Mason. All performances include a performance stipend.
STEAMROLLER Dance Company creates physically articulate dances that examine how language and mass media shape ideas of race, sexuality, and gender. We engage audiences with our irreverent theatricality and use of non-traditional space to challenge traditional notions of identity. The intersection of artistic and popular culture makes our dances more accessible and our messages more palpable.
The company began as a loosely knit group of artists who came together to create guerilla performances addressing the spread of HIV/AIDS in under-represented communities. STEAMROLLER has since presented work in such venues as the In The Street Festival, the 1996 Bay Area Dance Series, the 1996-2001 Lesbian and Gay Dance Festivals, Yerba Buena Center for The Arts Festival of Bay Area Dance, Asian American Dance Performances and Highways Performance Space in Los Angeles, Still/Here, SPF 2015, and the 2015 and 2016 SF International Arts Festival. The company was also selected in 1997 to participate in ODC Theater's Two Year artist in residence program.
Artistic Director Jesselito Bie moved to the Bay Area in 1992 to dance with the High Risk Group and has since performed with many local companies such as Scott Wells and Dancers, Stephen Pelton Dance Company, Cid Perlman/Nesting Dolls, Kulintang Arts and Erika Shuch Performance Project. He has also received awards for his choreography from the SF Bay Guardian, the 360 Award from CSUEB for all around Outstanding and Outrageous Queer Dance Work and the Tobie from Bay Area Dance Watch for Best Male Solo. He was also a recent participant in ODC Theater's Sandbox residency program. Currently he is a lead artist in residency at Safehouse for the Arts.