[Capdist-auditions] Open call for auditions for Sean Griffin's "Cold Spring"

[Laura Andruski]

Do not respond to this email.  Please respond to:  Zhenelle Falk (EMPAC
Artist Services

Coordinator) at 518.276.4036 or falkz at rpi.edu.

 

Open call for auditions for Sean Griffin's "Cold Spring"

Thursday, June 3 from 9 AM to 9 PM

 

The Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center

(EMPAC)

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

110 8th Street

Troy, NY, 12180

http://www.empac.rpi.edu/

 

EMPAC is holding open auditions on Thursday, June 3 from 9 AM to 9 PM for a
new production by composer/director Sean Griffin entitled "Cold Spring",
which will premiere at EMPAC on December 3, 2010.

 

We are looking for:

 

- senior character actors with experience

- young actors who can deal with movement

 

+ Unique talents (musical or other physical training) are welcome. All

ages will be considered. Small groups of actors with shows under their belt
are encouraged to audition.

 

Each audition will last 10-15 minutes. Please schedule your audition in
advance by contacting Zhenelle Falk (EMPAC Artist Services

Coordinator) at 518.276.4036 or falkz at rpi.edu. Walk-ins will be seen as the
schedule allows.

 

Don't forget to bring your CV / resume and headshot with you to the
audition.

 

EMPAC is located at the corner of 8th Street and College Avenue in Troy, NY
(the southwest corner of the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute campus). There
is limited free parking available on College Avenue, and metered parking on
8th Street from 8:30 AM - 5:00 PM (both adjacent to EMPAC). You will first
check-in at the EMPAC Box Office, which is located on the 7th Floor of EMPAC
on the campus-side of the building.

 

For more information, please contact Zhenelle Falk at 518.276.4036 or
falkz at rpi.edu .

 

About "Cold Spring":

 

Sean Griffin's new work "Cold Spring" is a multi-faceted performance event
staged in the EMPAC Theater. Texts and performances assembled from a broad
array of sources from the American Eugenics Archive, pop- culture, and local
theater productions are staged into an anxious and unresolved historical
reinterpretation.

 

This work ties together performative orthodoxies from performance artists
and opera singers in Los Angeles, actors from Chicago, local theater
productions, and music ensembles. Griffin weaves these often- conflicting
performance styles into a complex, sometimes humorous, sometimes frightening
operatic spectacle.

 

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About Sean Griffin:

 

Composer and interdisciplinary artist Sean Griffin lives and works in Los
Angeles. He has developed compositional and interdisciplinary methodologies
positioned at the intersection of sound and performance, creating large and
small-scale concert works, collaborative sound and video installations, and
film scores. His works have been presented by Los Angeles' REDCAT, the
Armand Hammer Museum, June in Buffalo, the Whitney Biennial of American Art
2004, Berlin's Volksbühne, Secession Vienna, London's Tate Modern, the
Festival d’Avignon, the Taipei City Arts Festival, the Walker Art Center,
and Centre Pompidou.

 

Griffin has received fellowships and awards from the MacDowell Colony, Meet
the Composer Global Connections, American Composer's Forum, the UC Center
for Humanities, and the J. Paul Getty Center for Research in the Arts. His
research and writings have been published by Bomb Magazine, the Walker,
REDCAT, Secession Vienna, Nutida Musik, Lentos Museum, Linz, and the Groves
Dictionary of Music.

 

Griffin is a longtime collaborator with theater artist Catherine Sullivan
and has developed new works with artists such as percussionist Aiyun Huang,
performance artist Ron Athey, and installation artists Edgar Arceneaux, and
Charles Gaines. His current work addresses rhythmic regimentation and
conflicting behaviors in performances by instrumentalists, vocalists, and
actors. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of California at San Diego.

 

http://seangriffin.org/

 

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About EMPAC:

 

Founded by Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, EMPAC offers artists, scholars,
researchers, engineers, designers, and audiences opportunities for creative
exploration that are available nowhere else under a single roof. EMPAC
operates nationally and internationally, attracting creative individuals
from around the world and sending new artworks and innovative ideas onto the
global stage.

 

http://www.empac.rpi.edu/

 

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