Mtv.com on Tour Auditions
Madonna wants youfor her upcoming world tour.
The pop star has hinted for months that she would hit the road to support her album American Life, and now the trek is set to launch in May, over a year after the album’s release, according to an open call notice for dancers.
Madonna is looking for “strong and versatile” dancers in the New York area, according to a notice in the dancing trade Web site Answers4Dancers.com.
Though the number of people to be hired remains to be determined, tour director Jamie King is interested in seeing a variety of styles, as dancers will be asked to showcase their own freestyle moves as well as learn choreography on the spot.
“Looking to see anything from acrobatics, breaking, popping, locking to ballet, reeling, riverdancing and tango,” the ad reads. “Choreography will be unpredictable … anything goes!”
Dancers are asked to bring not only two pictures and résumés, but also kneepads and different shoes. And if they’re picked, dancers should be willing to “cut or change hair drastically.”
Auditions will be held at 310 West 52nd Street in New York City on Saturday at 10 a.m. for male dancers, and at 2:30 p.m. for female dancers. Callbacks will be held on Sunday.
Rehearsals begin in March in Los Angeles.
Source: MTV.com