AUDITIONS NOW CLOSED for We Shall Be Known
Dance With Us
Be Part of We Shall Be Known
No audition required!
Karin Stevens Dance seeks a few more adv./professional dancers to participate in a special commissioned project for Abbey of the Arts.
Abbey of the Arts is an online global community offering programs and resources that nourish contemplative practice and creative expression. While its work is rooted in the ancient Christian mystical tradition, it is radically inclusive and welcomes people from every spiritual path, as well as those with no spiritual or religious affiliation. Karin Stevens is deeply passionate about inter-spiritual and inter-faith community and finds her own spiritual home within a Sufi lineage.
The dance will be created to "We Shall Be Known" by MaMuse (used with permission). This contemporary folk anthem for collective healing, community organizing, and systemic change is inspired by Buddhist environmental activist Joanna Macy's vision of the Great Turning—the profound transition from an extractive, industrial-growth society to a life-sustaining world. The song offers both comfort and hope for those navigating environmental challenges and times of social change.
In keeping with the mission of Abbey of the Arts, this dance film will serve as a contemplative practice. The choreography will feature simple, expressive gestures that invite viewers to move along with the dancers, making the work accessible to people of all ages and movement backgrounds.
We welcome dancers who enjoy collaborative creative processes and are excited to contribute to a project centered on community, healing, hope, and collective transformation.
Rehearsal
Monday, August 24
4:00–7:00 p.m.
Location: Northwest Seattle
Video Shoot
Tuesday, August 25
1:00–4:00 p.m.
Location: Magnuson Park
Compensation
$175 stipend
To Be Considered for the Project
Please email karinstevens@karinstevensdance.com with:
A résumé and/or short bio
A headshot and/or dance video
We look forward to dancing together.
Karin Stevens Dance believes that dance is a radical, vital art key to our future in this 21st century. Our contemporary dance artworks strive for beauty through richly textured patterns that embody the complex, turbulent layers of our time, our cultural spaces, and our relationship to environments. We advocate for live, local, new music, partnering and collaborating with musicians and composers. We re/connect us to our bodily selves, to each other and to the greater spiritual ecologies of our collective dance. Our work embraces the mystery, suffering, wonder, bewilderment, and Love in our interdependent existence through re/imagination, transformation, and healing for our collective well-being.