2023-24 Auditions! - Yale Dance Lab

Calling all Dancers! 

The Yale Dance Lab will hold an audition on Tuesday, September 5 from 4-6 pm for the 2023-24 season which will include new works choregraphed by Brinda Guha, Emily Coates, and Lacina Coulibaly.

The audition will be held at Broadway Rehearsal Loft, 294 Elm Street, Room 303.  

Rehearsals will take place during the fall semester on Tuesday from 4:00 – 7:00 PM and Thursday 4:00 – 6:00 pm from September 12 – December 8, 2022 (except October and November recesses).  Rehearsals will continue Tuesdays and Thursdays in the spring semester January 16 – February 10. Public performances of Brinda Guha’s piece and choreography from Emily Coates and Lacina Coulibaly’s workshopping will take on Saturday, February 10, 2024. 

Full attendance is required. 

The project is open to students in Yale College and graduate programs. **Students who are graduating in December 2023 may seek special permission from Emily Coates and Lacina Coulibaly to be involved.

Dancers of all styles and background are welcomed and encouraged to audition!

Tuesdays: Brinda Guha’s work is rooted in the legacies of Contemporary Indian dance, and yearns to reach spaces where qualities of community, transparency and womanhood are centered. This semester, Brinda plans to build a complex piece called “Mohabbat”, a meditative song about love and letting go by Arooj Aftab.

Thursdays: Emily Coates and Lacina Coulibaly will develop new choreographic material that builds on their collaborative intertwining of West African and American dance forms with a live music component. This work will culminate in a new, large-scale original production to be premiered in the 2024-25 school year. 

To register for the audition, please visit this link. 

Contact Emily Coates with any questions: emily.coates@yale.edu