Movement Performer

Compensation

$250/day

Call for The Garden 2026 NYC Tour
Flying Leap Productions, a nonprofit producer of boundary-breaking performance for families, is seeking a Movement Performer, an Assistant Stage Manager (Touring), and a Costume Designer for a 2026 NYC tour of The Garden, an interactive outdoor performance welcoming very young children under 5 and their families into nature, in public parks. The 2026 tour will visit public parks and NYCHA developments in all 5 boroughs, in partnership with the New Victory Theater.

About The Garden
The Garden is a radically inclusive, meditative performance exploring the life cycle with very young children and their families in public green spaces. In The Garden, families experience the life cycle through all five senses – through movement theater, poetic text in three languages, and interactive play – seated in the grass beneath the open sky in their local public park.

We encourage you to learn more about The Garden at www.flying-leap.com/garden and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhARxn_QzRw

About Flying Leap
Flying Leap is a nonprofit family theater company led by a dynamic, passionate team of artists. Together, we make and produce site-specific, radically accessible, participatory theater for families around tough topics. Our work serves marginalized families through collaboration with diverse artists, audiences, and community partners, and our core values are collaboration, care, queerness, access, and joy.  www.flying-leap.com

MOVEMENT PERFORMER
We are seeking movement performers and/or physical theater performers with experience and/or interest in interactive theater for the very young. The performance is primarily movement-based, with a short spoken poem. Experience working with interactive performance, early childhood, or TYA/TVY is a plus. Flying Leap believes in building ensembles whose lived experiences reflect and represent the diverse families and children who experience our work, and represent the diverse families and children who experience our work, including individuals who identify as BIPOC, immigrant, and/or disabled.

We are looking for performers who:

• Can engage with audience aged 0-5 in a thoughtful, specific and curiosity-led way
• Have strong bodily awareness and control
• Can move between choreographed and improvised movement with ease
• Have experience devising or choreographing moments of movement or physical theater
• Speaking a language other than English is a big plus (but not a requirement)

Flying Leap’s current rate for performers is $250/day, plus a travel stipend when traveling more than 1h from home. This rate will be increased in Summer 2026 when the new living wage tables are available.

Auditions will be scheduled in Spring 2026, in 2-hour workshop-style blocks. If you feel you are a strong fit but are unavailable for those audition dates, we encourage you to still apply.

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Flying Leap Productions is committed to inclusion and to building ensembles that reflect the diverse lived experiences of our audiences. Professionals of all ethnicities, gender identities, and ages, as well as performers with disabilities, are encouraged to apply.