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FROM THE GREEN ROOM: Dance/USA's eJournal

  • My Eyes, Your Body

    March 1, 2011

    We have habituated our gaze toward a narrow set of proportions based on the kind of dance we watch and the expectations we bring to our viewing. Our eyes have grown lazy. We simply don’t see enough professional dance with a variety of bodies on stage. And I have interviewed numerous artistic directors in the ballet and contemporary genres over the years who claim they love all kinds of bodies.

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    Tags:
      Commentary, Dance News
  • The Black Swan Effect: Fleeting Chimera, Or a Catalyst for a Second Dance Boom?

    February 17, 2011

    In ballet circles, a tantalizing question has generated much excitement and speculation: Is Black Swan the new Turning Point, the 1977 film that helped to popularize ballet and ushered in the high summer of “the dance boom” when Americans seemed to fall in love with dance? Could Black Swan ignite a second great love affair between Americans and classical ballet in the 21st century? 

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    Tags:
      Commentary, Artistry, Engagement
  • Cross-Training Across Generations: Current Challenges in Arts Administration

    February 8, 2011

    Most organizations currently support a traditional model for upward movement, from entry-level, to mid-level, to management, to executive. But are these structures best for the field as we consider this fundamental shift in leadership?

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    Tags:
      Arts Administration
  • Romancing College Students: Building the Next Generation of Dance Audiences – Part 2

    February 3, 2011

    While most students may not understand particulars of the language of dance technique, they are innately familiar with the language of technology, as it revolves around their lives far more frequently than dance.

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    Tags:
      Engagement
  • Romancing College Students: Building the Next Generation of Dance Audiences – Part 1

    February 1, 2011

    How can dance, then, appeal to a generation accustomed to receiving astonishing images and experiences from other mediums with the click of a button or tap of a keystroke?

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    Tags:
      Engagement
  • Who Does Indian Culture Belong To?

    January 31, 2011

    What does it mean to preserve an art form? It does not mean passing down the same memorized movement from one generation to the next. A traditional classical art form, which arises from a particular cultural context, in our increasingly global society must adapt and move forward, and these forms, historically, have always evolved. Just as ballet developed from the French and Italian courts, where an emphasis on subtle and refined manners gave way to more dazzling and virtuosic displays in the proscenium context, classical Indian dance, too, has evolved.

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    Tags:
      Commentary, Mind of the Artist
  • Being Garth Fagan

    January 25, 2011

    What happens when an admittedly bad dancer takes classes at the celebrated dance school?

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    Tags:
      From The Studio, Engagement
  • Tips for Navigating the Visa Process

    January 15, 2011

    Dance/USA, as an active member of the Performing Arts Visa Working Group, has been advocating for an improved and more reliable visa processing system. Noticeable progress has been made in processing times and visa petition adjudication, but the challenges to petitioners still abound. 

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    Tags:
      Government Watch, Internationalism, Dance News
  • Myopia Stunts Art

    January 11, 2011

    At the end of every year, people everywhere are compelled by nostalgia and self-importance to register and announce their top however-many items of interest or note in whatever genre or form one could imagine their best-of lists. Few people, however, even those who write for well-moneyed, high-culture publications, ever seem to take Santa’s care with checking their lists twice. Others, indubitably, project their preferences for a certain naughtiness over anything one might consider nice, or good.

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    Tags:
      Commentary, Artistry
  • 10 Things the Dance Community Should Be Talking About in 2011

    January 7, 2011

    It’s 2011 and APAP – the Association for Arts Presenters booking conference – is here, which means we get to enjoy 2011 for a few days before we spend a week talking about 2012 and 2013 and, in keeping with the theme of the conference, 2021. So let’s look back, look forward and seize the decade.

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      Commentary
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Editor: Lisa Traiger

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