Breakdancing Shakespeare:
Two Gentlemen of Verona
Hartford Stage Young Company, in conjunction with the Greater Hartford Arts Council's Neighborhood Studios, will hold general auditions forBreakdancing Shakespeare: Two Gentlemen of Verona on Wednesday, May 22 from 3:30 to 8 p.m. at Hartford Stage's rehearsal studios at 942 Main Street 2nd floor, Hartford, CT. (Callbacks will be held Thursday, May 23 by invitation only.)
Breakdancing Shakespeare: Two Gentlemen of Verona is a story about love, friendship and forgiveness. In this reimagined version of the play, students use breakdancing and hip hop to help make Shakespeare's language accessible to audiences of all ages. This is a paid, six-week rehearsal process involving approximately 16 Greater Hartford area students. Over the course of the summer, students will learn techniques of breakdancing, physical and vocal characterization, movement, and interpretation of classical text, culminating in final performances August 13-15 at Hartford Stage.
Breakdancing Shakespeare is part of the Greater Hartford Arts Council Neighborhood Studios program, which links youth with arts organizations (studios) that give students hands-on training in a specific artistic discipline and employs them as paid apprentices.
To learn more and to apply, visit
http://www.hartfordstage.org/
HISTORY OF HARTFORD STAGE
Now in its 49th season, Hartford Stage is one of the nation's leading resident theatres, known internationally for producing classics, provocative new plays and musicals, and neglected works from the past, as well as a distinguished education program that reaches 21,000 students annually. In 2011, Darko Tresnjak became the fifth artistic director to lead Hartford Stage. That same year, the theatre presented the World Premiere of Quiara Alegría Hudes' Water by the Spoonful, winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. This year the company also produced a world premiere musical, A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder, which recently played at The Old Globe in San Diego, and the world premiere of Breath & Imagination by Daniel Beaty, which recently played at City Theatre Company in Pittsburg.
Hartford Stage has earned many of the nation's most distinguished awards, including a Tony Award for Outstanding Regional Theatre, the Margo Jones Award for Development of New Works, OBIE awards, two New York Critics Circle Awards, a Dramatists Guild/CBS Award and an Elliot Norton Award, and has produced nationally renowned titles, including the Broadway productions of Enchanted April and Our Country's Good and the Off-Broadway productions of The Orphans' Home Cycle and The Carpetbaggers Children.
The leading provider of theatre education programs in Connecticut, Hartford Stage's offerings include student matinees, in-school theatre residencies, teen performance opportunities, theatre classes for students (ages 3-18) and adults, afterschool programs and professional development courses.
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