Finding an Anchor with a Mentor
A mentor can also help you be less reactive and more strategic in planning how you need to move forward and not be coerced continuously by what seems best, but may not be best for you and your company’s mission.
Being a Mentor: Expanding the Reach of the Art Form
Finally, I wish someone had explained to me that it is always, especially initially, more difficult for artists to stay true to their individual creative visions than to adopt a herd mentality and be a member of an artistic clique.
Growing Through Collaboration: Finding Balance in a Shifting Landscape
Collaboration may generate energy; ignite relationships that build trust, further knowledge and group effort that continue to infuse the creative process.
Thoughts from a Dance Enthusiast: Pico Iyer’s Plenary Speech — Day 1
More than ever in the arts, we dancers and dance administrators need some good spiritual food for sustenance – especially as the world pushes us to move ever faster in its service and sometimes, it seems, far away from the art we love. It is imperative to thrive despite many draining challenges that face us. It is important to find balance in our lives.
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?
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: 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: The Pause Before the Jump
To write—to dance, to make music—is to become incomparably affluent inside and to have a sense of possibility, of freedom, of real power that nothing else can rival.
Bridging the Gap: The Rocky Landscape of Today’s Dance Business
The divide is growing between small, independent dance companies and artists and larger, more established organizations. We either re-build … now or watch the dance community split in two.