Chicago Dance Luminaries Talk Dance/USA
Prominent members of Chicago’s dance scene are excited about Dance/USA‘s national conference (more here) coming in July! What does it mean for Chicago to be hosting the national conference this summer?
Dancing With a Digital Presence
I am unequivocal about the need for most artists and companies to find the required resources to create digital content. Unfortunately, this demands a complete rethinking because most non-profit dance company business models allocate resources to creating work for the stage and for marketing those works, with little, if any, surplus remaining to invest in creating media content.
The Managers’ Dance: Choreographing Engagement
Amid the intensity to embrace and understand the new, it is worthwhile to consider enduring dynamics that apply to an old yet evergreen story: the care and feeding of a volunteer patron base. With an eye toward continuous improvement in how we manage relationships and cultivate commitment from patrons, it is worth reviewing – and recommitting to – skills that have always made a difference in forging strong relationships with our most dedicated supporters.
‘Dancers’ Bodies, Promoting Wellness’: 3 Takeaways
We cannot change the need for relative thinness in this visual art form. But we can find better ways to communicate with the dancers, always aware of their vulnerability and always recognizing them as talented young people rather than body types.
‘Dancers’ Bodies, Promoting Wellness’: Let’s Talk Solutions
Dancer wellbeing represents a glaring and puzzling concern within the dance world. The physical and psychological health of dancers becomes especially tricky to foster within an environment where worth is often based on physical appearance. Many other factors, such as limited funding and resources, also complicate the matters, making it a difficult terrain for dance professionals to navigate.
Seven Questions for Pico Iyer: Dance Is a Home … and a Sanctuary
It may be running every morning, or doing yoga or tai-chi, or in fact dancing; but without this anchoring discipline and exercise, we’ll be lost in a wilderness of flashing bytes.
Seven Questions for Pico Iyer: Dance as a Window on a Very Foreign Culture
To study dance today is to gain a window on a very foreign culture often (when I was growing up in England, all we could learn was the foxtrot or the polka). And this itself moves children to think of home in a much larger, perhaps more invisible way
Seven Questions for Pico Iyer: Globalism of the Heart, the Imagination, and the Conscience
Watch the kids of Osaka dance salsa (as they love to do), listen to Norah Jones or see how the girls of Beijing are dancing Swan Lake, and you see people literally going places they haven’t gone before.
Seven Questions for Pico Iyer: Cutting Through the Screen of Words
Dance, official or otherwise, is the way we cut through the screen of words and even ideas, at times, and speak in a way as urgent as tears, and as hard to turn away from.
Pico Iyer Remix: Seven Questions and Answers
Pico Iyer, travel writer and philosopher, spoke this morning at the Dance/USA Chicago conference. From the Green Room, Dance/USA’s eJournal, is re-releasing Iyer’s inspiring Q&A from earlier this summer.