Spring 2025 Auditions
MUSIC SHOWCASE AUDITIONS
Thursday, January 30th at 5pm
Presentation Theater
The Spring 2025 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: April 22nd - 23rd, 6:30pm-10pm
Showcase Performance: April 24th at 8pm in Presentation Theater
Audition Form - Use this form to register to for an in-person audition, or to submit an audition virtually.
For additional information email Giacomo Fiore at gfiore@usfca.edu
USF Dance Ensemble Auditions
Location: KGallagher Dance Studio in Koret Center
Date: Thursday, January 30th 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: Eli Nelson, Amber Julian, Meredith Belany, and new PASJ faculty member Jason Vu, with special guest artist (to be announced!).
Performances scheduled Friday, May 2 - Saturday, May 3 at 8pm in Presentation Theater.
Please contact Eli Nelson at esnelson@usfca.edu or Megan Nicely at nicely@usfca.edu for additional information.
SPRING 2025 CHOREOGRAPHER BIOS:
MEREDITH BELANY | Rehearsals Thursdays, 6:30pm-9:30pm | Presentation TheaterMs. Belany has 22 years of classroom teaching experience, where she has developed arts-integrated lessons for elementary and middle school students. In the classroom, she draws on her extensive background, including a major in International Relations with an emphasis on People and Cultures in Latin America. Since 2006, Ms. Belany has actively participated in the Bay Area Mexican folkloric dance and artist community. She has 15 years of experience instructing children's and teen dance Mexican folk dance classes under master teachers Norberto Martinez, Zenon Barron, and Netza Vidal and 18 years of experience as a Mexican folkloric dancer. Ms. Belany's commitment to professional development in the field of Mexican dance is commendable. Her membership in the Asociación Nacional de Grupos Folklóricos since 2013 and the Asociación Nacional de Maestros de Danza Popular Mexicana since 2017 is a testament to her dedication. These organizations, which focus on researching, preserving, and disseminating Mexican folk dance and music traditions, provide her with valuable insights that she shares with her students.
AMBER JULIAN | Rehearsals Wednesdays, 6:30pm-9:30pm | KGallagher Dance Studio
Born and raised in the Bay, Amber Julian is a professional dancer of over 20 years whose style is often described as fierce and groovy. Her background and primary training is in Hip Hop and House, and she considers herself a freestyle dancer with an emphasis on somatic healing. She started dancing in Mix’d Ingrdnts Dance Company in 2013, and she was a primary multidisciplinary artist of over 7 years with Embodiment Project. She teaches classes regularly in Oakland and is currently a performing arts professor at USF. She believes that dance is medicine and a tool in moving and exchanging deep rooted energy in order to heal, make change and exude dynamic forms of visual expression.
ELI NELSON | Rehearsals Tuesdays/Thursdays, 12:45pm - 2:30pm | KGallagher Dance Studio
Eli Nelson is a composer, choreographer, multi-instrumentalist & educator. He studied composition and choreography at UCR. There, Eli studied with Susan Foster, Richard Bull, Cynthia Novak, Bill T. Jones, & Fred Strickler. Since then, 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, ODC/KT Nelson among others. As a musician, he’s performed with: Thomas Dolby, Sugar Hill Gang, Tone Loc, Howard Jones, George Clinton; & lead vocalists from: Steppenwolf, Tears for Fears, Motley Crue, English Beat, Living Colour, Dee-Lite, Digital Underground, & Twisted Sister. He was also on faculty at SFCD for 15 years until its closure. He has been at USF since 2003.
JASON VU | Rehearsals Thursdays, 6:30pm-9:30pm | KGallagher Dance Studio
Jason Vu is a dance artist and educator who choreographs with movement, sound, and sensory attention to engage critically with formations of identity, culture, and community. His work anchors in Vietnamese aesthetic logics of sound, space, time, and materiality while in dialogue with BIPOC artists, activists, and theorists in search of binding forces that can mobilize collective liberation. Jason's undergraduate studies in Biology and his active studies in somatic practices orients his research on the body as the site of possibility. His choreography is known for groove, open-heartedness, a permeating softness, a queering of time and space, and rich sensorial landscaping.
...and a special Guest Artist to be announced!
THEATER MAINSTAGE AUDITIONS
LOCATION: Studio Theater (LM 148)
DATE: Monday, January 27th & Tuesday, January 28th
TIME: 6:30pm - 10pm
(Callbacks Wednesday, January 29th at 6:30pm)
REQUIREMENTS:
Please prepare a memorized 2-3 min monologue.
If you do not have a monologue, we will provide you with a monologue to read.
INTEREST FORM - complete this form prior to your audition.
Performances scheduled Thursday, April 10th - Saturday, April 12th at 8pm & Sunday, April 13th at 2pm in Lone Mountain's Studio Theater.
ABOUT THE PLAY: The Bald Soprano by Eugène Ionesco
Often called the father of the Theater of the Absurd, Eugène Ionesco wrote groundbreaking plays that are simultaneously hilarious, tragic, and profound. In The Bald Soprano Ionesco throws together a cast of characters including the quintessential British middle-class family the Smiths, their guests the Martins, their maid Mary, and a fire chief determined to extinguish all fires — including their hearths. It's an archetypical absurdist tale and Ionesco displays his profound take on the problems inherent in modern communication.