CASTING CALL FOR THE MIRACULOUS MIXES OF DJ SANTA CECILIA
New Audition Date: Wednesday, January 28, 2026 | 6 PM
Guadalupe Theater, 1301 Guadalupe St.
✨ AUDITION CALL ✨
The Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center Theater Arts Program is casting movers who act and actors who move for The Miraculous Mixes of DJ Santa Cecilia, a bold new stage production blending movement, ritual, and underground rave culture of the 1990s.
We’re seeking dancers/performers (18+) to embody THE FOLLOWERS—a powerful movement chorus representing migrants, ravers, and devotees through dance, voice, and storytelling.
📅 New Auditions Date: Wednesday, January 28, 2026 | 6 PM 📍 Guadalupe Theater | 1301 Guadalupe St., San Antonio 🔁 Callbacks: TBD
Please be advised that the theater parking lot is expected to be full due to a town hall event at El Progreso Hall on the same day. As an alternative, street parking is available on Guadalupe St as well as El Paso St. Additionally, you may find extra parking located catty corner to the Latino Bookstore.We recommend allowing extra time for parking and arrival to ensure a smooth audition experience.✨ Bring your movement style—Cumbia, Rave/House, or your own—and be ready to learn reverence-based choreography inspired by ritual and the four directions.
Written by Amalia Ortíz Directed by Robin LaVerne “Dragonfly” Wilson Choreography by Rosa “Rosie” Torres
📩 Questions? Email: ladanzastudio@hotmail.com.
Join us in bringing The Miraculous Mixes of DJ Santa Cecilia to life—where your passion for movement and storytelling can shine. Set in a Los Angeles sweatshop warehouse at the height of the underground rave scene of the 1990s, “The Miraculous Mixes of DJ Santa Cecilia” imagines an alternate history where a congregation of indigenous immigrants are introduced to electronic dance music (EDM) in sacred ceremony mixing tribal traditions with industrial techno beats near the end of the millennium.
ROLES AVAILABLE:
– EAST: Male dancer, age 18 & up
– SOUTH: Female dancer, age 18 & up
– WEST: Female dancer, age 18 & up
– NORTH: Female dancer, age 18 & up
REQUIREMENTS: Ability to move expressively and recite lines with clarity. Experience using props in performance. Comfort with movement qualities including reverence (spiritual/ritualistic), running, and raving. Openness to working with musical props from Latin American traditions.
AUDITION DETAILS: New Date: Wednesday, January 28, 2026. Time: 6:00 PM. Location: Guadalupe Theater. Address: 1301 Guadalupe St, San Antonio, TX 78207
CALLBACKS: Dates/Times: TBD
AUDITION PREPARATION: Please bring a photo (head shot), performance resume or video profile/CV to submit at check-in (not required).
FREESTYLE PORTION (Choose One): 1. Perform Cumbia movement (30 seconds–1 minute; music provided) 2. Perform Rave or House Dance (30 seconds–1 minute; music provided) 3. Show your best movement style (up to 1 minute; bring your own Bluetooth-compatible music)
CHOREOGRAPHY PORTION: Choreographer Rosie Torres will teach a 30-second to 1-minute sequence of REVERENCE patterns—movement based on spiritual and ritualistic themes honoring the four directions and elements.
Choreographer: Rosa “Rosie” Torres: Over the last 30 years, Rosie’s career includes dance teacher, dance artist, choreographer, movement analyst, dance consultant, former dance studio owner, dance curator, and rehearsal director. Rosie has had extensive outreach with her many roles. Teaching pre-kinder through senior citizens and professionals to non-dancers. She has had the honor of teaching for Marching Auxiliaries of America, the San Antonio Ballet School, Urban 15 Group, the McNay Art Museum Family Days, UTSA doctoral ILT program, UTSA Urban Bird Project, plus numerous dance studios, including high school, university and college dance teams across the United States.
Performance experiences include; Kilgore College Rangerette, Rangerette Swingster, San Antonio Spurs Silver Dancer, back up dancer at the Tejano Music Awards. A danzante with Danza Azteca Kalpulli Ayolopaktzin and a contemporary performer, soloist and choreographer with The San Antonio Dance Fringe. Most recent independent work includes “Happy Birthday Mom” by Jacque Salame and “La Llorona” for Mujeres Marcharan.
WHAT TO WEAR: Comfortable clothing and shoes suited for Cumbia or Rave dance or Reverence movement.
PRODUCTION DATES: March 19–21 & March 26–28 (8pm performance)
For more information about the auditions please contact:
Rosie Torres Choreographer
For more information about the production please contact:
Jorge Piña GCAC Theater Arts Director
jorgep@guadalupeculturalarts.org
Clint Taylor GCAC Theater Arts Assistant
clintt@guadalupeculturalarts.org
REQUEST FOR SUBMISSION OF PLAYS FOR TEATRO SALON TABLE READING SERIES - NOW ACCEPTING SUBMISSIONS!
Deadline: March 31, 2026 | 4 PM
🎭 Calling Texas Playwrights!
The Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center is now accepting submissions for the Teatro Salón Table Reading Series.
We’re seeking unproduced plays that reflect the Latinx, Chicana/o, and Tejano experience. Selected scripts will receive a public table reading with actors, a director, and community feedback.
Deadline: March 31, 2026 | 4 PM Open to emerging & established writers English, Spanish, or bilingual
The Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center Announces Request for Submission of Plays for Teatro Salón Table Reading Series
San Antonio, TX (December 15, 2025): The Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center Theater Arts Program announces an open call for submission of unproduced scripts for the Teatro Salón Table Reading Series. From the pool of submissions, two to three scripts will be selected for a table reading scheduled for August/September of 2026 that will be opened to the public. Deadline to submit unproduced scripts is scheduled for March 31, 2026 by 4 p.m.
Teatro Salón Table Reading Series provides playwrights from Texas an opportunity to test out and receive valuable and constructive criticism from their peers and the public with a well-rehearsed stage reading that is open to the public.
“We are so excited to produce our third Teatro Salón Table Reading Series,” according to Jorge Piña Gudalupe Theater Arts Director. “From these series, we have produced to the stage two original scripts, “La Niña Girasol” by J. Cesar Duenas (June 2022) and “Las Comadres de Morales Street” by Irene Chavez” (March 2025).
This call is open to all established and non-established writers in the state of Texas. The scripts that are selected will have a table-reading with a director and actors. Writers will have the opportunity to receive valuable feedback from the public and established teatristas (theater-artists) to help with script development. “We encourage anyone to submit, even if you’ve never written a play. We want to support underrepresented playwrights, including women, LGBTQIA+, BIPOC, disabled, neurodiverse, etc., and encourage you to submit,” says Piña.
The theme of the scripts must reflect the Latinx, Chicana/o, Tejano experience. Drama, comedy, satirical, and children’s plays are welcome. Scripts that also have themes of ‘Dia de los Muertos’ and ‘Christmas holiday’ are also encouraged.
Teatro Salón Table Reading Series Submission Guidelines:
-Unproduced scripts (may have a reading script development)
-One submission per playwright
-No one-acts
-No screenplays
-No short stories
-Running time of 60 to 90 minutes long (with or without intermission)
-English, Spanish or Bilingual
-Pages should be numbered
-Deadline to submit is Tuesday, March 31, 2026, by 4 p.m.
To submit a script, please include a cover letter with title, playwright’s name and short bio, contact information, a brief synopsis and character descriptions to Jorge Piña, GCAC Theater Arts Director, 723 S. Brazos St, San Antonio, TX. 78207 or jorgep@guadalupeculturalarts.org (no phone calls).
The GCAC Theater Arts Teatro Salón Table Reading Series is made possible from generous grants from The City of San Antonio Department of Arts and Culture, National Latino Theater Initiatives, San Antonio Area Foundation and Texas Commission on the Arts.
For more information, please go to www.guadalupeculturalarts.org, call (210) 271-3151 or contact Jorge Piña, Theater Arts Director at jorgep@guadalupeculturalarts.org.
