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.
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.
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.
Shifting Landscapes: 3 Impact Points of Technology on the Future of Dance
Audience expectations have changed. People are no longer as receptive to being talked at. Audiences want to have conversations. They expect a certain level of interaction and two-way communication.
In Dance News: It’s A Matter of Place
This has been an exciting week for three dance organizations — and there is a common and unlikely thread that ties their accomplishments together: geography.