Spring 2026 Auditions

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PASJ 25th Anniversary Showcase

This spring, USF PASJ alum Eric Garcia (Detour Productions) will lead an interdisciplinary, devised theater project that brings together dance, theater, and music. Students will co-create a 30-minute performance—blurring the lines between disciplines and highlighting the power of ensemble collaboration. No matter your background—whether you’re a mover, musician, or actor—there’s space to bring your creativity into the process.

 

Audition Details

Wednesday, February 4th at 6:30 – 8:30 pm

Thursday, February 5th at 8:30 – 10 pm

Location: Studio Theater (LM 148)

 

Audition Process

The audition will be an ensemble-based session focused on real-time creation. You won’t need to prepare anything in advance or learn set choreography. Instead, you’ll respond to prompts and short scores that invite collaboration through movement, voice, gesture, lipsync, and imagination. Expect to experiment, build with others, and step a little outside your usual discipline—whether that means moving your body, speaking text, or creating sound.

Over the course of the project, the ensemble and director will develop a 30-minute performance that’s fully rehearsed and deeply crafted. The final piece will feel layered and alive—more like a mosaic or collection of moments than a single storyline—and will showcase the unique range and artistry of everyone involved.

 

Who Should Audition?

This project welcomes currently enrolled USF students, faculty, staff, and alumni—from any discipline or background. Movers, actors, musicians, designers, writers, drag performers, and artists of all kinds are encouraged to join. If you’re curious about collaboration, enjoy experimenting, and want to explore how different art forms can intersect, this process is for you. You don’t need prior experience with devised theater—just a willingness to play, take risks, and co-create with others.

Eric Garcia (aka Churro Nomi) is a San Francisco-based devised dance-theater artist, drag queen, community organizer, and the Co-Director of Detour Productions. He creates immersive and site-responsive performances that straddle nostalgia, radical futurism, collaborative ensembles, and queer maximalism. Churro is rooted in the queer nightlife and drag performance, and produces/hosts Clutch The Pearls, a drag cabaret on the first Sunday of every month at Make-Out Room in the Mission District. Since 2010, Eric proudly serves as Managing Director for both Fresh Meat Productions and the SF Transgender Film Festival.

 

PASJ 25th Anniversary Showcase Dates: 

Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 8 pm

Friday, May 1, 2026 at 8 pm 

Saturday, May 2, 2026 at 8 pm

MUSIC SHOWCASE AUDITIONS

Thursday, February 5th from  6:30 - 8:30pm
Studio Theater (LM 148)

Deadline to Submit: Monday, February 2nd via Google Form link

Announcing the Spring 2026 USF Music Showcase auditions! This is your chance to share your talent with the USF community, whether you’re a soloist, ensemble member, composer, vocalist, DJ, or instrumentalist. All genres are welcome - classical, jazz, pop, rock, musical theatre, electronics, original works, covers, and more!

 

Audition Guidelines

  • Prepare one piece (recommended 2–5 minutes)
  • Rehearsals scheduled based on student availability
  • Video auditions accepted (pending schedule/availability)

If you have any questions, please contact Thomas Kurtz at tkurtz@usfca.edu.

Dance Showcase

Join us for the USF Dance Ensemble Spring 2026 Auditions! In addition to Eric Garcia's interdisciplinary piece, we will be auditioning for 2 shorter works.

Date: Wednesday, February 4th
Time: 8:30-10 pm
Location: Studio Theater (LM 148)

Audition Guidelines

  • Arrive by 8 pm to register
  • Dress in comfortable clothing
  • There will be a group warm-up, followed by approximately 20 min working with each choreographer (you do not need to prepare anything in advance)

Questions, please contact Megan Nicely: Nicely@usfca.edu

Antwan Davis

5-minute body percussion/stepping piece

Rehearsals: Fridays, 4 – 5:30 pm in Hagen Gym

Antwan Davis is a professional body percussionist, educator, and performer with over two decades of experience using rhythm to build connection, inspire creativity, and transform communities. His innovative approach invites people to discover the music within their own bodies. With a mission to make rhythm-based education accessible and culturally relevant, Antwan’s work bridges artistry and activism, discipline and joy. https://www.bodypercussionacademy.com/

​What is Body Percussion/Stepping?

Body Percussion/Stepping is about making music with the most powerful instrument you already have—your body! In this high-energy embodied rhythmic form, you'll clap, stomp, snap, and move to create rhythms and routines with others. This dynamic form combines the fundamentals of stepping and STOMP-style body percussion, forging physical, mental, and emotional connections with others through rhythm movement, teamwork, discipline, and confidence.

Eli Nelson 

5-minute site-specific piece

Rehearsals: Tuesdays, 6 –7:30 pm in KGallagher Dance Studio

Eli Nelson is a composer, choreographer, multi-instrumentalist & educator. He studied composition and choreography at UCR. Since, he has performed with Heidi Duckler’s Collage Dance Theater and Lizz Roman & Dancers. As a composer, he’s worked with Detour Dance, Trapeze World, Rapt Productions, Summer Rhatigan, KT Nelson among others. He was also on faculty at SFCD for 15 years until its closure. He has been at USF since 2003.

What is Site-Specific?

Site-specific refers to performance that has been designed to exist in a certain place outside of the theatrical stage. Such work is conceived in relation to the dynamics of a specific place or environment. Non-traditional performance settings, such as urban or rural areas, are among the private or public spaces where site-specific projects may unfold. Performance works are also often created for or in response to a specific site. A feature of site-specific works is the possibility to engage artists and spectators in dialogue with places and the communities that inhabit them.

 

THEATER SHOWCASE AUDITIONS

Date: Tuesday, February 3rd
Time: 8:30-10 pm
Location: Studio Theater (LM 148)

Additional details TBA