Join Our Company Through Professional Auditions
GDT Professional
Company Auditions
Georgia Dance Theatre Professional Company Auditions Info:
(Note: Do not send resumes if you are not a US citizen or have a valid work visa. They will not be viewed.)
Auditions begin in January of each season for the professional company. Dancers must be at least 18 yrs of age and currently living in the US or have required visa documentation to work in the US. Dancers are contracted for 11 months with opportunities to perform approximately 14 performances along with additional professional guest artists from other companies throughout the US. Female dancers have a max height of 5'6". Male dancers should be 5'10" or taller. If interested in teaching and choreographing opportunities, please submit a teaching resume along with a dance resume.
Contact the director to request an audition class. Submit audition materials, including video link, to Artistic Director here.
What we offer:
GDT Pre-Professional Company Auditions
The audition form must be completed to audition. Click above to complete the audition form.
The form is for pre-professional auditions.
Georgia Dance Theatre
Pre-Professional Company Auditions
Saturday, August 15th, 2026
$35 Audition Fee (Visa/MC, cash or checks paid to Georgia Dance Theatre)
Apprentice - 2:00-3:00pm
Junior - 3:15-4:15pm
Senior and Professional - 4:30-5:30pm
Students must be at least 11 years of age and be enrolled in pre-professional (intermediate) level ballet, jazz, and modern classes.
Dress Code for Auditions: Any color leotard, pink tights, pink ballet shoes & pointe shoes (if on pointe), hair in a classical ballet bun, black leggings
or black jazz pants, jazz shoes, tan ballet shoe for contemporary audition.
Georgia Dance Theatre is a nonprofit dance company and scholarship program that holds yearly auditions for the serious dance student. Over $165,000 of scholarship funds are provided for these students each season. Auditions are held each season for the pre-professional and professional companies. Additional auditions are held in January and February for professional company members.
Georgia Dance Theatre members are featured in our full-length ballets, contemporary and early childhood productions, and outreach productions as well as GDT’s Nutcracker Ballet, Nutcracker Tea, Arts Alive Gala & Master Works.
Open auditions are held in August for our Nutcracker ballet. Ballet students are accepted from several area counties. All students are accepted and receive a role in Georgia Dance Theatre’s Nutcracker.
Community Impact & Arts Organization Recognition
Georgia Dance Theatre has been commended for the excellence of their "high level of Artistic standards" in arts education and presentation & for the "professional expertise of the Artistic Staff" by the Georgia Council of the Arts.
Georgia Dance Theatre has been commended by the Georgia Council of the Arts and appropriations from the National Endowment for the Arts and from the Georgia General Assembly. In addition, this company has been commended for its' strong community partnerships, supporters and outreach programs.
