BAX Teaching Opportunity: BAX’s Youth Education Department seeks a new director for its youth theater company: BTC (BAX Theater Company). Candidate must make a commitment to attend weekly rehearsals (Fridays, from 5:15-7:15pm) beginning September 16, 2016 through June 16, 2017. Preference will be given to candidates who can commit to the position for at least two years. Qualifications: An established theater artist with experience teaching dramatic arts and working with youth. Responsibilities: Plan year-long workshop curriculum that integrates contemporary and classical dramatic arts and techniques in performance, direction and writing as well as ensemble and composition-building. Provide overall mentorship to students as they create, direct and perform in original, collaboratively devised, work. In the generative process, guide students to have safe and age-appropriate conversations that draw out, and give confidence to, their authentic voices and experiences (engaging personal identity as well as broader social events). Create and direct annual group work for public performance. Plan performances exchange with other BAX performance groups and/or outside groups and venues. Participate in sustaining and growing integrity of BAX Theater Company and drama programming from year-to-year, including planning an annual open rehearsal/audition for prospective new members. Engage in ongoing communication with BAX staff and families as it relates to program outreach and promotion. About BTC: BTC is a year-long, audition-based, theater ensemble for young artists (ages 9-18) looking to expand their experiences in peer theater-making and performance. Under the guidance of a director, the BTC ensemble meets weekly to explore source material, create and rehearse original works, and embody a range of key roles throughout the creative process, including performer, playwright, director, choreographer, dramaturg, set/sound/light designer and critic. Rehearsals draw directly from the collected voices and visions of the participants, celebrating collaboration between students of different ages, cultures, interests and backgrounds. Additionally, to support and enrich their process, the BTC ensemble may invite professional guest performing artists to facilitate master workshops drawing from their professional expertise and aesthetics. As a performance-based company, BTC will have a various informal and/or formal opportunities to share their work for a peer and public audience. The BTC program and assessment is based on the following criteria and emphasizes building skills in the following areas:
Technical Skills
Improvisational Skills Art Making Skills Performance Skills Emotional/Social Skills Ensemble/Collaborative Skills
Compensation The BTC Director receives an hourly rate of $44-46 each class as well as an annual stipend of $250. The BAX Youth Education Department offers its faculty access to a rich variety of Professional Development resources and experiences as well as other broader BAX resources, including a complimentary ticket to BAX Artist Services performances, youth and adult class discounts and rehearsal space. BAX faculty are additionally invited free of charge to special BAX community events such as Artist Services Day, BAX Awards, etc. To Apply Please submit a resume and one page cover letter outlining your qualifications and experience for this position to
[email protected] with the subject-line “BTC director application” and addressed to BAX Education Director, Lucia Scheckner. Applicants should familiarize themselves with BAX’s mission, community and programs. Your cover letter should include why BAX’s goals and work align with your career goals and your pursuit of this particular opportunity. Timeline Interviews will take place July/August. Position begins in mid-September. We will only contact applicants we wish to interview. No phone calls please. About BAX/Brooklyn Arts Exchange and Youth Education Founded in 1991, BAX’s mission is to provide a nurturing, year-round, performance, rehearsal and educational venue in Brooklyn that encourages artistic risk-taking and stimulates dialogue among diverse constituencies. Celebrating our 25 year anniversary, BAX is an environment intentionally designed for children and professional artists alike to create and perform work in the same building. Our educational program encompasses five core values that inform class curriculum, faculty teaching practices as well as our professional development, special events, and festivals. These core values are skill-building, creative choice, collaboration, performance, and community. We are committed to access and equity and strive to ensure that BAX programming represents, reaches and serves a diverse range of people. The Education Department actively engages in discussions about how race, class, gender, sexual orientation, and other aspects of identity affect access to, representation in, and experience within all of our programs and curriculum. Visit bax.org and youth.bax.org for more information. BAX is an equal opportunity employer committed to creating and developing an inclusive staff team. People of color and individuals of diverse backgrounds are strongly encouraged to apply.
