Company and Apprentice Auditions
2025/2026 Season

 
Dancer jumping and bringing feet to head
Dancer jumping

Ballet Co.Laboratory is looking for versatile and accomplished classically trained dancers with partnering and pointe experience for our 2025/26 performance season. In addition to paid dance contracts, Company Artists are paid to develop arts administration skills in efforts to develop the whole dancer.

Position & Contract deTaIls

  • 34 to 36-week contract beginning Fall 2025

  • Paid Apprentice and Company Artist positions for 2025/2026 season

  • Health & Wellness perks [PT, massage, personal training, nutrition, shoes for the season, etc.]

  • Collaborative Company coaching and creating with professional Rehearsal Assistants

  • Classical & Contemporary work

  • Story ballets with original narratives

  • New studios with natural light, shower, gender neutral restrooms, & staff lounge

  • Artist driven organization

    • Artists work on administrative team of BCL under paid, secondary administrative contract

    • Development of arts administrative skills with Managing Director and Artistic Director

  • Seeking artists who are collaborative, creative, eager to learn, willing to grow on the job, and interested in all aspects of an arts administration

 
 

How to apply

Email a cover letter, resume/CV, and audition video to:
Zoé Henrot, Artistic Director
zhenrot@balletcolaboratory.org

  1. Cover letter

    • Why Ballet Co.Laboratory?

    • How do you see ballet evolving into the future?

  2. Audition video must be under 5 minutes in length and include:

  • Class work (at least two exercises in center)

  • Classical variation or performance clip

  • Contemporary variation or performance clip

Deadline to apply: February 15, 2025

 

WHAT TO EXPECT AFTER SUBMISSION OF YOUR APPLICATION

Artistic Director will take up to four weeks (review dates are February 1-March 1) to review your application materials.

Applicants who move forward in the audition process will then receive an Artist Questionnaire to complete via Google Forms in preparation for an interview with the Artistic Director. Interviews will be 20-30 minutes in length and conducted over Zoom in March 2025.

Applicant may be asked to join Company class virtually as a second live audition in March 2025.

Applications will either receive a letter of intent from Artistic Director with intentions of extending a contract to Applicant or an email informing Applicant that no contract will be extended by April 1, 2025.

Pending this letter of intent, an official contract officially extended before or by May 15, 2025.