2018 Dance Forum: Creating Dance In and For Today’s Society
Relevance, community, place-based work, and truth telling were the topics discussed at Dance/USA’s 2018 Dance Forum. The event focused on examples of work that represented the future of the dance field in different ways. Read on for more.
Sharing Gratitude
During this season of gratitude, From the Green Room shares letters from a mentor and mentee participating in this year’s Dance/USA Institute for Leadership Training. It’s a reminder to us all to thank those who have supported us over the years.
Healing the Soldier
The dance world has a long history of working with military veterans, from choreographers who have celebrated the heroics of veterans or looked at the vestiges of war, to a range of movement programs for veterans. Read on to learn more.
Leadership Corner: Eduardo Vilaro, Ballet Hispánico
Eduardo Vilaro says: To continue as a culturally relevant organization, if I am doing just salsa, flamenco — what’s comfortable and safe, that doesn’t truly reflect the history, legacy and future of those forms. I’m interested in where young people are now.
Lessons on Using Market Research To Expand Audiences
Get a peak at The Wallace Foundation’s studies on how arts organizations – including dance – can utilize market research to expand their audiences.
Jobs That Matter?
In Sept. 2017, Kentucky Governor Bevins said: “If you’re studying interpretive dance, God bless you, but there’s not a lot of jobs right now in America looking for people with that as a skill set.” Dance professor Karen Bradley disagrees. Find out why.
Highlights from the Dance/USA Staff Residency Program in Kansas City, MO
In 2016 a Dance/USA staff member spent 10 days in Kansas City exploring the local dance community. Learn about the Dance/USA Staff Residency Program and the Kansas City dance community.
Dance Criticism Needs a Paradigm Shift
Who do critics write for? Do informed arts patrons need something different than artists? What about the artists, who decry the demise of dance criticism, yet blast the critic as ill-informed when a bad review runs?
Development Dialogue: Summer To-Do List
Summer: a time to relax, renew, recharge and reset. Read Kansas City Ballet Development Director Ron Fredman’s advice on how to make the most of your summer “down time” only in From the Green Room.
Dispelling Myths and Nurturing New Structures
Measuring organizational success in terms of constant increases in size and scope creates unsustainable structures and programs. A new paradigm is needed, read Anne Dunning’s proposal to learn more.