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Giving dancers their growl: the Ailey School and The Lion King team up to teach the art of the Broadway audition.

Publication: Dance Magazine
Publication Date: 01-DEC-08 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Giving dancers their growl: the Ailey School and The Lion King team up to teach the art of the Broadway audition.(teach-learn connection)

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Dance students are trained to speak with their bodies, not their voices. But a professional dance career often requires more than physical expertise. To land a dream job on Broadway, dancers are asked to speak, and worse yet, sing during an audition. By themselves. In front of people.

Aubrey Lynch II, associate producer of The Lion King, says, "Dancers come to auditions with the training written on their bodies, but they haven't worked on the other parts of performance craft." A former Ailey company member and original cast member of TLK, Lynch created an annual workshop two years ago for pre-professional Ailey students to teach the ins and outs of Broadway auditions. (Alvin Ailey himself performed on Broadway in House of Flowers--see "In the Beginning," p. 34).

Top-level students are invited to participate but are not told what...

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