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We’re hiring collaborators for a community based, paid project in April 2026 in Rochester, NY. REGISTER HERE to attend a Zoom info session to learn more about the project and see if you are interested in attending our hiring workshop/audition (time TBD in February 2026).
For this project, Kaley is partnering with the Henrietta Public Library and has been funded through Genesee Valley Council on the Arts. Collaborators will receive a $700 artist fee and can expect to rehearse and perform for around 40-50 hours total during March/April 2026.
Pruitt has been investigating interactive dance theater for the past 5 years. This project centers around audience interaction on the themes of community building and cultivating empathy. Collaborators will need to be comfortable speaking, interacting, improvising, and performing learned choreography/text in intimate spaces in response to, and in interaction with, the audience/workshop participants. This project will feel like a hybrid between a workshop and a performance, so collaborators must be comfortable shifting seamlessly between both atmospheres and be adaptable to different audiences and scenarios.
KPD is looking for collaborators who are “people people”, eager to collaborate and share their ideas inside the rehearsal process and during the workshop/performances. We want to bring on collaborators who are interested in expanding the definition and possibilities of “performance” and take interactive art into community spaces.
Interested collaborators do not need to have a “dance” background strictly or at all. KPD is looking for any creative and interested persons based in the Rochester area who are excited to work on this unique project. People of all ages, creative disciplines, identities, and prior experiences are welcome and encouraged to attend a Zoom session and the hiring workshop.
Show Me a Day When the World Wasn’t New
“The connection you could feel between the dancers was intoxicating!”
“I watched the dancers telling me to go back and regain dreaming again, love to love again, and gravitate always towards happiness…They told me in their movements that every day is a new day”
– Audience memberS
Our newest interactive dance-theater work for all ages Show Me a Day When the World Wasn’t New is available for touring.
We invite you to rediscover wonder and play in our newest interactive dance-theater work conceived and directed by Kaley Pruitt in collaboration with performers Patrick Ingram and Megan Wubbenhorst. Audiences are taken on a journey that will rekindle their childhood imagination through games and storytelling. Show Me a Day When the World Wasn’t New conjures nostalgia and a renewed sense of community. The performance explores themes of loss of innocence, coming of age, and human connection. Audiences can opt in or out of interactive games interspersed with viewing danced choreography and listening to stories told by the performers. The performers utilize the mediums of dance, theater, storytelling, and spoken word and interact with each other and audience members. Everyone leaves with a smile and will be able to look back on something in their past in a new light.
Kaley Pruitt Dance is proud to announce our fiscal sponsorship under Fractured Atlas. This will allow supporters to make tax deductible donations to the company year-round. Being fiscally sponsored also allows Kaley Pruitt Dance to apply for larger grants as we look into the future toward sustainability and supporting larger company projects. Check out Kaley Pruitt Dance’s support page at Fractured Atlas and make a one time or monthly donation to support our work today!
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