Auditions.
Having been on both sides of an audition….my advice is this….
We must become professional auditioners.
Look at your career as a series of auditions. Seriously, think about it. It only takes ONE YES to get a job.
Ah, how marvellous they appear in ones memory! The chance of possibility, the chance of being chosen! What a wonderful feeling it was.
If you become a professional auditioner, you learn to enjoy the process. You will be give a chance to work with the top choreographers and the top directors. You may not get chosen for the job, yet you will experience a great day and a free class! Oh, and It’s a really good idea to go to auditions where you don’t want the job. You will dance with more freedom and less fear. This is great practice.
Truth…. you may not be chosen for the job at hand. However, you may be approached for a later gig.
Remember, at every audition, they already know what they are looking for.
Say they are looking for a strong spunky character, spicy and unique. What if you’re naturally demure? Delicate? Did you fail if you don’t get the gig? No, you were just in a position where someone more ‘obvious’ will be given the part.
However, you’d better believe next time they need a demure, dainty character….you’ll be their choice… Why?….Because the power of recognition is strong.
They will remark ‘Do we know them?’ ‘I remember them from somewhere? Then, if the audition had 24 demure actors… you will be chosen, because they already feel like they know you.
It’s also a chemistry thing. Do they feel you will gel well with the characters already cast? You have to also come across like you will fit in to their ensemble. This isn’t something one can control. This is just chemistry.
Stay unique, stay you and keep auditioning. PRACTICE auditioning by auditioning, you’ll get better at it!
It’s an entire career to practice in itself. Enjoy it. Practice it. Do it often.
It’s not personal. It’s only one yes in fifty no’s and you have a gig.
'Curioser and Curioser' {Alice} 