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BLACK THEATRE WORKSHOP

YouthWorks: COMPREHENSIVE PERFORMANCE ARTS TRAINING

2006-2007 Season

Open Audition Call

Press release
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Montreal, August 23, 2006 – The word is out! Black Theatre Workshop’s YouthWorks, Performing Arts Training Program, will be holding open auditions on September 2nd and 9th.The auditions will be held in the Black Theatre Workshop Studio Space, 3680 Jeanne Mance, Suite 460. All levels of experience are welcome.

YouthWorks invites all interested young people to join its fall/winter program, which runs from September 23, 2006 to May 7, 2007. If you are between the ages of 12 and 25, this is your chance to unleash your talents or simply discover your creative voice.

YouthWorks is a bilingual multi-disciplinary program that offers Introductory, Intermediate and Advanced level programs. YouthWorks helps develop key skills and values involved in theatre performance integrating both Western and Africentric theatre principles and practices. Our aim is to expose participants to a hybrid of theatre training that resonates with and is more accessible to our young people.

The 26 week fall / winter program picks up from our 2 week summer intensive program, with an individualized and comprehensive performance curriculum. Students in Levels I and II develop their skills through focusing on staging and play production. Level III students create, develop, and stage their own creations encompassing a variety of performance art forms.

This year, YouthWorks introduces its Industry Seminars. Industry Professionals will offer to YouthWorks participants a Specialty Workshop Series covering a variety of disciplines on an invitation-only basis. YouthWorks participants will also have the opportunity to attend performances of Black Theatre Workshops Mainstage productions as well as this year’s special BTW presentation of The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre in collaboration with Les Grands Ballets Canadiens.

Black Theatre Workshop
YouthWorks 2006-2007 Season
Auditions September 2, 9, and 16, 2006
To book an interview:
(514) 932-1104 ext. 224
Fax: 932-6311

youthworks@blacktheatreworkshop.ca