Auditions for "How to be a Doll" a new dance theater piece

Mir Productions is seeking actors, dancers and movers for our next
original production, How to be a Doll. The show will run for two weeks
in March. Rehearsal will begin the first week of February. The show
will rehearse in the evening and occasionally in the afternoon (but
only on weekends). It is important that you are able to be at all
rehearsals - as the piece will be created by the ensemble during the
rehearsal process. A complete rehearsal schedule will be available at
auditions or upon request.

Auditions will be held on Monday, January 28th and Wednesday, January
30th (with callbacks also taking place on the 30th). If you are
interested in auditioning please email us at
involvement@mirproductions.org to schedule an appointment.

***** Please be advised that we are seeking men and women who are
interested in working with a combination of dance and theater. No
formal dance training is required, but we are interested in seeing
individuals who have experience with Viewpoints. Please memorize the
passage below for the audition and be prepared to move.

the frozen food aisle makes
me sob outloud.
frost-caked glass,
the spinach, the pancakes,
the rice.
all that quick taste.
somewhere, i am certain,
my mother pounds fresh chicken
with her fists,
somewhere she crushes plum tomatoes,
somewhere she is silent.
somewhere, i am certain,
my mother is washing
her hands.

This piece will be a mixture of dance, movement, and spoken word
poetry. It is centered on the issues of young women, particularly
issues of self. It speaks of women with muffled voices, of their rich
inner lives and their silence on the outside. It is about the struggle
between what one should be and what she wants to be and the failure to
find the balance, reacting against her mother and the fear of reacting
at all. This piece addresses the questions: is a person what she
projects, or what she is internally? If she is aware of herself and
her perception, why is it so frightening to share it? Some search for
definition through love, to allow others to sculpt them so they can
put that fear into the hands of someone else. Others search through
sex, looking for definition. This is a piece about fear: the fear of
being alone, and above that, the fear of love - fearing good love and
instead turning to bad love for safety's sake. Although the desire
exists in everyone to step outside of one's surroundings, the fear of
walking can be suffocating.

Mir Productions was founded in August of 2006. It is made up of a
diversely talented group of artists committed to creating theater that
crosses and breaks down cultural and language boundaries by supporting
new work and exploring interdisciplinary art forms.

Mir Productions is interested in integrating the elements of movement,
text, sound, film, visual art, technology and theater in a
collaborative and supportive artistic environment. Mir Productions is
open to developing new works in this manner, as well as freshly
examining traditional works from an interdisciplinary or multicultural
perspective.

The company's name derives from the root word mir, which becomes miras
(wonderment) and mirari (to wonder) in Latin, mirar or mirer (to look)
in Spanish and French, mirror (to reflect) in English, miru (to watch
or to look at) in Japanese, and mir (peace/world) in Russian. The ways
in which this one word can cross cultures and languages is at the
heart of the company's commitment to pushing past and through all
boundaries and fully exploring each work that Mir Productions does.