Braving the Economic Reality: Five Effective Nonprofit Practices
Particularly during economically challenging times, it is of utmost
importance that senior management and board leaders have strategic
clarity. This consists of a sound and shared understanding of mission,
vision, and values superimposed with insights into the intended impacts
that their organization is meant to have in serving their community.
The Artists’ Residency: Planting Creative Seeds
The artist residency is a venue that offers artists creative, generative
time away from their normal place of work; a space in which the
creation can follow inspiration, rather than an imposed schedule. The
opportunity to change one’s environment, have dedicated creative time,
and invest in process is, in my view, becoming increasingly critical in
our field of multitasking artist/administrators.
Music Licensing 101: The Pretty to the Nitty-gritty
Music licensing can feel like scary stuff. If you’re anything like me, an artist by nature and nurture who has honed arts-business skills through my own entrepreneurial efforts, then you probably get that panicked, semi-nauseated feeling at the mere mention of “legal responsibility.” However, I’ve learned is that licensing music for dance isn’t actually complicated at all.
The Multi-Faceted Body of Diversity
Discussions about diversity — dealing with race, gender, identification, politics, in or outside of dance — are discussions we will never stop having, whether we choose to participate or not. But to shy away from them, because they are uncomfortable or they shatter our safe reality, only provides more unanswered questions and more space for marginalization and the muting of underrepresented people, artistic practices, and the continued segregation of any ‘other’ not socially recognized.
Can ‘Breaking Pointe’ Fix Ballet?
Can “Breaking Pointe” do for ballet what ballet companies have been struggling to accomplish for decades now? That is, lure newer, younger audiences to theaters for live classical ballet?
Dancing in the Field: #dusaconf 2012
Institutions are set up, in part, to provide job security for key
positions, and an overall sense of constancy of support for the art. The
problem is that definition leaves out a lot of artists and arts
workers: the white elephant in the room at most Dance/USA events I’ve
attended in the past. Now more than ever it seems the big ballet
companies, the experimental independent artists, emerging leaders, and
everyone in between feel the pains of struggling to sustain.
Dance: Is It a Field Endangered? What Can We Do?
Join Dance/USA and From the Green Room in an online discussion on the state of the field. Here is where the discussion to implement change and share new ideas, models, methods or practices that can help us acclimate to this shift in the field. What do we want: stability, job opportunities, long-term contracts, insurance? We look forward to your fruitful and productive contributions to this conversation.
Is Dance a Field in Danger?
A young woman started to cry as she described her personal struggles with a career in dance, and the difficulty of working multiple jobs in the service industry without access to adequate health care or insurance.
This could be you.
This could be your dance student.
It’s All in the Journey
An artist-centered sharing of culture and creativity is a practice
embraced by many choreographers; serving an essential purpose in
fortifying artistic inspiration and creative explorations, stimulating
the artistic journey from the studio to the stage.
The Big Bang, Quantum Physics and the Drive To Make Dances
Dance has always been there and humanity and the tiny musical strands of which it is made have been vibrating in one way or another since the beginning of known history.