Friday, September 29, 2017

The Guy Who Auditions Dancers For Cirque Du Soleil Explains What He Looks For

Rick Tjia: "Little do the dancers know how many tens of thousands of dancers I have seen and auditioned to get to this moment in time, little do they know the complexities and the enormous number of hours needed to cast one show, much less 22 at the same time - all the time - and counting. Little do they know how much audition 'success' is out of their control and how much of it actually is. But they wouldn't know, and I guess I wouldn't expect them to. During this wait time the question going through the dancers' minds is, what is the secret? ... There is no mystery, there is no secret."



Article source here:Arts Journal

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