ChoreoLab 2025
Saturday, April 19, 2024
10am-9pm | Rubenstein Arts Center
Duke Dance Program Call for ChoreoLab 2025 Performance Proposals
Choreolab Spring 2025: A Day of Dance Experiments presents a full day of innovative dance outside the proscenium stage. On this day, different spaces at Rubenstein Arts Center will be activated through movement workshops, work-in-progress showings, participatory experiences, dance film screenings, and curated performances by both faculty and students.
Audiences are welcome to join us throughout the day to experience dance in diverse and imaginative forms. We are accepting proposals for new dance works for the evening performance of ChoreoLab 2025 and are looking for dance experiments that are outside the conventional form of proscenium stage work. The evening performance will take place in the von der Heyden Theater with audiences seating around the space and/or in the balcony.
Auditions
Performance: African Dance/Dance 423 with Ava LaVonne Vinesett
Monday, January 13 at 6:15-7:30 PM, Rubenstein Arts Center 224
Regular classes will meet on M/W 6:15-7:30 PM
Performance: Hip Hop/Dance 444 with Ife Presswood
Thursday, January 9, 2025. 4:40-5:55, Rubenstein Arts Center 201
Regular classes will meet on Tu/Th 4:40-5:55PM
Performance: Jazz/Dance 442 with Nina Wheeler
Wednesday, January 8, 1:25 PM - 2:40 PM, Rubenstein Arts Center 224
Regular classes will meet on M/W 1:25 PM - 2:40 PM
Performance: Ballet (Dance 422), Professor Iyun Ashani Harrison
No audition is required. To join his dance film project, email iyun.harrison@duke.edu by Wednesday, January 8, at 5:00PM for a permission code.
Regular classes will meet in Rubenstein Arts Center 224, Tu/Th, 3:05–4:20PM
Performance: Modern/Dance 412 with Kristin Clotfelter
No audition required. Interested students should register and attend the first class on Thursday, January 9, from 11:45AM-2:15PM
Regular classes will meet on Th 11:45AM - 2:15PM
Student Choreography submissions:
Feel free to think outside the box and let your imagination soar. The duration of the piece will be 6 minutes for undergraduate students and 10 minutes for graduate students. We also welcome proposals from graduate students for installation, work-in-progress showing, and interactive movement experiments that could take place in a studio or gallery space during the day.
Please submit a 250-word description of your project and present your proposal in the in-person audition on Thursday, Jan 16, 4-6pm in Room 202. If you cannot attend the in-person audition, please email Prof. Jingqiu Guan (jingqiu.guan@duke.edu) and Prof. Michael Kliën (michaelklien@duke.edu) your audition in video format by Jan 16.