Get Ready – Audition Preparation and Presentation

Dr Linda Sastradipradja [NICA] and Kalman Warhaft [Melbourne Institute of Dance] are back and ready to get to work!

After delivering the What are our Potentials for 2022 Workshop earlier this year, Linda and Kalman have returned to tackle the challenge of auditions.

Auditions – sometimes the word alone is enough to scare any student.

We love performing arts, we want to be a part of it, and for those who want to be on stage, on camera, or in the ring auditions come part and parcel with the territory.

Dr Linda Sastradipradja and Kalman Warhaft combine their years of experience in this 1.5hr workshop that helps you GET YOUR STUDENTS AUDITION READY!

Together Kalman and Linda will help discuss and demonstrate:

Clarity

• Identify the key points that audition holders are looking for.
• Devising the clearest choreography, costuming, staged perspectives (live and videoed) and descriptions.

Expectations

• Understanding the auditioner’s/examiner and the student’s expectations.
• Creating a connecting bridge between them.
• Managing conflicting expectations.

Adaptability

• Providing students with a resilient and realistic approach to their dance training.
• Develop skills for adapting to differing situations.

Presentation

• Selecting skills that can be confidently executed under stressful situations with confidence.
• Incorporating their skills choreographically or otherwise.

What are your concerns and questions about auditions?

At the end of the presentation Kalman and Linda will answer your pre-submitted FAQ – Those questions and concerns you have about the audition process. Perhaps you have a particular audition coming up and there is something you need to decipher? Please send it through via the link below.

Submit your questions

• FAQs are due by 5pm AEST, Friday 15 July.
• Linda and Kalman will address your submitted FAQs at the end of the live session on Monday 18 July – so pop in anything and everything that matters to you.
• This will ensure our presenters can give you the best considered, feedback possible helping you to be audition ready!
• Simply enter all your questions, concerns and thoughts on this form: https://forms.gle/z9UtKQDwJQ95ixQ29 

Your Presenters

Dr Linda Sadstradipradja: Linda currently works at the National Institute of Circus Arts (NICA), integrating dance techniques, skills and creative approaches into NICA’s training and performance programs. Linda continues to work in close association with many international and Australian performing arts companies and practicing artists, and actively contributes to national and state artistic organisations as a panelist, consultant and contributing writer.

Kalman Warhaft: A renowned dancer, Kalman was a member of Sydney Dance Company under Graeme Murphy AM and Janet Vernon. He is a founding member of Mod Dance Company and has performed in a multitude of works across opera and ballet.

He has amassed a large following, teaching dance in schools, universities, and academies across Australia. In 2017, he opened Melbourne Institute of Dance, a community dance education centre, allowing students from the age of 3 to 83 years old to attend dance classes that nurture their passion for dance – one step at a time.

EVENT INFO:

WHEN: 10am AEST, Monday 18 July 2022.

• Bookings are essential.

APATA Members FREE / Non-Members $75.00.

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