Fall 2024 Auditions

MUSIC SHOWCASE AUDITIONS

Tuesday, August 27th at 5pm
Studio Theater

The Fall 2024 Music Showcase features an eclectic mix of talented USF performers in a one-night-only musical event. Please prepare a few minutes of material that demonstrates your musical strengths!

Those who successfully enroll must be able to attend:
Class meetings on Fridays 1pm - 3:20pm in ED040
Tech rehearsals: October 23rd - 25th, 6pm-9:30pm
Showcase Performance: October 26th at 8pm in Presentation Theater

AUDITION FORM: Fill out this audition form whether you are auditioning in-person or submitting a virtual audition.

For additional information email Music Professor Thomas Kurtz at tkurtz@usfca.edu

USF Dance Ensemble Auditions

Location: KGallagher Dance Studio in Koret Center
Date: Thursday, August 29th at 6:30pm
Time: 6pm (In-Person Registration), 6:30pm Auditions

USF Dance Ensemble members will learn and perform choreography from many styles and disciplines by Bay Area Artists and USF Dance Program Faculty, including: Saharla Vetsch (PASJ Alum), Dexandro Montalvo, Kara Davis, and Liv Schaffer and the Dance Generators, with special guest: Bharatanatyam artist Ganesh Vasudeva.

Performances scheduled Thursday, Nov 21st - Saturday, Nov 23rd at 8pm in Studio Theater.

Please contact Eli Nelson at esnelson@usfca.edu or Amie Dowling at asdowling@usfca.edu for additional information.
 

FALL 2024 CHOREOGRAPHER BIOS: 

SAHARLA VETSCH
Rehearsals Mondays, 6:30pm - 8:30pm, Wednesdays 7pm-9pm | Presentation Theater

Saharla Vetsch (PASJ Alum) is a Somali American independent dance-based artist born and raised in Minnesota. Now residing in the Bay Area, her work centers on intersecting identities and how they relate to one another. Her drag persona Major Hammy (he/him) seeks to spread joy and love by being the life of the party, and bringing the freedom of self-expression he experiences through dance to others. Saharla has been able to do aerial dance work with Zaccho Dance Theatre in "Love, a state of grace” and Flyaway Productions in “Apparatus of Repair”. She currently works with Detour Dance and has participated in their “Up on High” film series. She has also performed with Joe Goode Performance Group in "Time of Change". She also recently completed a Radiate fellowship with RAWdance.

DEXANDRO “D” MONTALVO
Rehearsals Tuesdays, 8:30pm - 9:45pm | KGallagher Dance Studio

Dexandro Montalvo’s performance and choreography have appeared on MTV, BET, Telemundo, and Fox networks; he is a past Artistic Director of the Dance Theatre of San Francisco. Montalvo was awarded a St. Louis Inner Circle Award for “Such Sweet Thunder” (2019), an Izzie Award for his choreography in “Art Behind Bars” (2014), and nominated for another for “Impulse” (2015, Robert Moses’ Kin commission). Montalvo currently teaches at SF Ballet School, Youth American Grand Prix, USF, Dominican University of California (LINES BFA Program), LINES Ballet Training Program, ODC Dance Commons, and USF.

KARA DAVIS
Rehearsals Thursdays, 6:30pm-8:30pm | ED040

Kara Davis, co-artistic director of project agora, danced for Atlanta Ballet, Ohio Ballet, and Ballet Jörgen in Toronto, Ontario. She is a founding member of KUNST-STOFF and Janice Garrett & Dancers, both of which she danced with for ten years. She has received multiple Isadora Duncan awards and nominations for her dancing and choreography. Her work has been presented at the Bates Dance Festival, Edinburgh Fringe Festival, ACDA Nationals at the Kennedy Center, ODC Theater, YBCA, SF MOMA, and Headlands Center For The Arts. She has received grants from Kenneth Rainin Foundation, the Zellerbach Family Fund, and Theater Bay Area's CA$H grant. In 2013, Kara earned her MFA from Hollins University.

LIV SCHAFFER and the DANCE GENERATORS
Rehearsals Wednesdays, 6:30pm-8:30pm | KGallagher Dance Studio

Liv Schaffer received her BFA from Alonzo King LINES Ballet Program/Dominican University (2013) and has performed with AXIS Dance Company, DanceWorks Chicago, Dance Exchange, and Robert Moses’ Kin. Schaffer is a Community Engagement Artist with Jacob’s Pillow and on faculty at USF, where she directs the intergenerational dance company the Dance Generators. Her choreography has been presented by Jacob’s Pillow Inside/Out, The Big Muddy Dance Company, Western Michigan University, and Yerba Buena Gardens Festival, and she is the Intergenerational Programs Director with EngAge, designing and implementing intergenerational programming for low-income and senior housing facilities across the West Coast.

GANESH VASUDEVA
Guest Artist, Masterclass TBD

Ganesh Vasudeva, dancer and choreographer, has trained in Bharatanatyam for more than 30 years under Gurus such as Guru Bragha Bessel, Guru A Lakshman Swamy, Guru Shreelata Suresh. Ganesh has been choreographing and presenting his solo and ensemble works globally for the past twelve years to critical acclaim. He was awarded an ACTA (Alliance for California Traditional Arts) apprenticeship scholarship in 2011 to research & present rare dance compositions of the Tanjore Quartet. Ganesh has been organizing the 'IDIA: I Dance, hence I AM' Bharatanatyam conference and festival in the San Francisco Bay Area since 2018.

THEATER MAINSTAGE AUDITIONS

LOCATION: Studio Theater (LM 148)
DATE: Tuesday, August 27th
TIME: 7pm-10pm

(Callbacks Wednesday, August 28th at 5pm-10pm)

REQUIREMENTS:
Please prepare a memorized 2-3 min comedic monologue and 1 joke. 
If you do not have a monologue, we will provide you with a monologue to read. 

INTEREST FORM - Please indicate you intention to audition.

Performances scheduled Thursday, November 7th - Sunday, November 10th at 8pm, in Lone Mountain's Studio Theater.

COMPLETE THIS FORM BEFORE YOU LEAVE YOUR AUDITION

ABOUT THE PLAY

We Won't Pay! We Won't Pay! is a radical comedic farce written by renowned Italian playwright and Nobel Prize winner Dario Fo and edited by his partner, Italian actress and playwright Franca Rame. In this laugh-out-loud comedy of hunger, chaos erupts as two housewives from working-class families concoct a clever scheme to protest rising food prices, corporate greed, and poor living wages. 

CHARACTER DESCRIPTIONS
Open to people of ALL races, ethnicities, genders, dialects, abilities, and ages.

Antonia: early 30s, a wacky, witty, and always scheming homewives. Good with words and
quick on her feet. A firework ready to make some good trouble.

Giovanni: early 30s, Antonia’s husband. Hardworking and traditional partner. Follows all the
rules and stays inside the lines. Not the brightest crayon in the box.

Margherita: early 30s, housewives, Antonia’s best friend and confidant. Always getting caught in
Antonio’s schemes. A ride or die.

Luigi: early 30s, Margherita’s loyal husband. Co-worker and Giovanni’s best bud. One of few
factory workers challenging poor working conditions.

Ensemble: State Trooper, Police Sergeant, Gravedigger, Grandfather, Troopers, Policemen