Fall Advocacy Forecast—Partly Cloudy, Partly Sunny
It’s important at times like these to remain actively engaged with our elected officials. This might mean contacting them about the important role of government funding for the arts and arts education, the role the charitable deduction has in strengthening the arts in every community, or the value in making sure that the nonprofit arts sector is considered in any legislation benefitting employers.
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: 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.
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
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.
Seven Questions for Pico Iyer: Build It, They Will Come
The purpose of dance, of any art, is to offer the world what it does not have enough of otherwise; so compromise, capitulating to the world, makes no sense at all.
Seven Questions for Pico Iyer: Writing … and Dancing … Against the Curve
In terms of creative work, I think we can offer the most by sitting—or dancing—away from the moment.
Social Media and the Arts: The Unbearable Nuance of 140 Characters
This week the social media world burst into a flurry of conversations thanks to a Wall Street Journal article that revealed the New York City Ballet was working on a social media policy for its employees and artists, and that this policy may have been driven by the Twitter behavior of a single dancer.
Cultivating the “Ah-Ha” Moment
Many of us working in larger cities take exposure to high-caliber arts for granted. We are presented with a myriad of professional performance options on a daily basis. This is not the case, however, across the country particularly in dance where touring is getting more expensive, presenting is getting riskier, and selling tickets is more and more challenging.