Contemporary dance company audition practice interview
Contemporary technique, improvisation, artistic interpretation, collaborative creation, response to direction and company commitment. Practise the 6 questions casting panels ask with follow-ups. Paid plans add scored feedback on every answer.
Free with an Intaviu account: 320 credits a month, at 10 credits a minute of practice. Private: interview creators never see them.
- 20 minutes
- 6 questions
- Scored feedback on paid plans
About the audition
A contemporary dance company audition often tests set material, improvisation and collaborative tasks alongside a short interview. Artistic staff want to see technical foundations, purposeful choices, openness to direction, safe partnership and the patience required for an evolving creation process.
How to prepare
- Review alignment, floor work, weight transfer and safe partnering principles.
- Practise improvising from words, images, spatial rules and changes in sound.
- Prepare to explain the intention behind a movement choice without overanalysing it.
- Recall examples of creating material collaboratively and changing it after feedback.
- Check your availability across the stated creation, rehearsal and performance periods.
Common mistakes
- Treating improvisation as random movement without a clear choice or response.
- Forcing range or partner work when the movement feels unsafe.
- Holding tightly to your own material during a collaborative task.
- Assuming technical precision matters more than intention and responsiveness.
What to expect
A real audition interview
6 questions the way casting panels ask, with follow-ups when an answer needs more.
Spoken, like the real thing
Speak your answers in your browser or the free desktop app, with live captions. You can ask the interviewer to repeat anything.
Scored on 5 areas
The things this interview weighs most. With a paid plan, your report shows how you did on each one.
A private report
On Plus, Pro and Premium: every answer scored, your strongest lines quoted and what to say differently next time. Interview creators never see it.
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