ULTRA VIOLETS
The ULTRA VIOLETS Team is looking to cast 5 sapphic and queer identifying dancers to feature in our run of Ultra Violets at Azimuth Theatre’s Expanse Festival in March 2026.
This call is open queer women and non-binary artists at any stage of their career, with a specific interest in casting emerging artists with a background in dance/ movement. Participants will engage in a 2 day rehearsal intensive where they will learn choreography, and devise movement that contributes to the score of the work. The community ensemble will perform in select scenes throughout the piece alongside the primary ensemble. Additional time commitments we ask of our participants include attending our tech and dress rehearsals to ensure safe practices, ensemble building, and preparedness to perform.
Content warnings: heavy use of haze, strobing lights, loud sounds, and mature themes. The choreography of this work also includes running and moving quickly in darkness.
About ULTRA VIOLETS:
Through a physical exploration of the ways queer club culture, plant growth cycles, and sapphic intimacy intersect, ULTRA VIOLETS subverts our expectations of what queer becoming looks like, and depicts this process as cause for celebration. In this new 55 minute dance-theatre work, we follow an ensemble of queer dancers as they move through phases of transformation on an individual and collective scale- manifesting as interpretations of germination, rot, and photosynthesis. Set within a world that is part greenhouse, part underground dance club, this piece draws on the history of disco and plant life to propose a new perspective on what it means to grow into oneself. Transforming our expectations of space and perspective with integrated design that pulls from disco aesthetics and ecology alike, this work unapologetically celebrates sapphic joy, intimacy, and the ways queer joy is akin to resistance and reclamation- to stepping authentically into yourself in your own process of becoming alongside your community. Created by a team of entirely queer women and non-binary artists, this work is performed by 5 core ensemble members, and the inclusion of 10 community members who will be cast from the local queer arts community wherever the show takes place, to participate in select scenes throughout the work. Through this involvement, we hope to emulate the ways our community has persevered in our own process of becoming, and overcome adversity throughout history.
Check out the trailer here
