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It's Showtime NYC

Performance Opportunities for Street and Subway Dancers

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Audition for It's Showtime NYC.

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Want to Join The Program?

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 APPLICATION TIMELINE:

APPLICATION DEADLINE (submit form below): March 24, 2025. CLOSED AT 9 PM

INVITATION TO AUDITIONS (emailed to select dancers): March 27, 2025

INVITATION ONLY AUDITIONS: March 29, 2025, 1-5 pm in Brooklyn, NY

Who We Are….For nine years It’s Showtime NYC! (IST) has provided professional development and work opportunities to NYC’s street/club and subway dancers. A program of the non-profit organization Dancing in the Streets, IST rehearses weekly. Our rehearsals are held at Mark Morris Studios in downtown Brooklyn and other dance studios. Dancers have performed in major performing arts centers, community arts festivals, tours, taught in NYC public schools, offered dance workshops to international tourists, and have repeatedly secured corporate and commercial work. Our training focuses on developing stage/street performances, enhancing choreographic skills, furthering freestyle range, teaching artist development, professional etiquette, branding, and basic professional administrative skills. For ambitious dancers, there are opportunities for administrative work and leadership roles within our organization.  Rehearsals, workshops and outside dance work are all paid opportunities. Dancers are paid electronically every two weeks to participate in the program.

New in Spring 2025:  Dancers will have the opportunity to be considered for two different programs led by Cal Hunt, Artistic and Program Director of It’s Showtime NYC

Professional Development: Rehearsals every Monday, 7 - 9 pm and every Friday, 6-9 pm (6 month contract) starting first week of April, 2025: Pays each dancer: $18/hour 

Select dancers will have the opportunity to work on a new dance piece choreographed by Bones the Machine. 

MAAD (Movement Arts Advanced Development): Every Saturday afternoon* for 3 hours (12 week contract, with possibility to be invited into an additional 18 week program), starting first week of April, 2025. Pays each dancer $25/hour (*we may need to swap out one Saturday rehearsal for a Wednesday or Thursday night rehearsal in June)

OPEN TO: Dancers: 18+ years who are NYC and surrounding residents currently hitting in New York City. All street/club dance styles, freestyle or choreo, are welcome!

DANCER COMMITMENT: You will be expected to show up on time to all rehearsals, reply to emails within 24-48 hours, and fully participate in all rehearsals, workshops, and meetings.

HOW TO APPLY to be considered for an audition: Fill out form below and include a link to a one minute dance video of you dancing. We welcome videos showing your freestyle or choreography. You can shoot this on your phone and send us a link to a social media page where your video is posted.

Please fill out form below and include a dance video link no later than March 24, 2025.  CLOSING at 9 PM.

On March 27th those of you who are invited to audition will receive an email from admin@itsshowtime.nyc. That email will provide information about the audition on Saturday, March 29, in Brooklyn from 1-5 pm. Be prepared to dance and be interviewed. Please save the date!

Accepted dancers into either It’s Showtime NYC program will start rehearsals the first week of April.  

Please follow us on IG @itsshowtimenyc for future updates.

We’re happy to answer questions and we’re available to help you if you need extra support with this application. Feel free to email us at: admin@itsshowtime.nyc



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Thank you for submitting your registration. Please note not all registrations are guaranteed a performance spot. You will receive an email with more details. 

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It's Showtime NYC


It's Showtime NYC! is a program of Dancing in the Streets, with funding from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, the Mertz Gilmore Foundation, Howard Gilman Foundation, Cornelia T. Bailey Foundation, Lily Auchincloss Foundation, New York State Council on the Arts, Emma Sheafer Charitable Trust, and The Hyde and Watson Foundation. This program is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts. ​

It’s Showtime NYC! is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.​

​It’s Showtime NYC! is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature. 

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