It’s the first week in January, which means three things happen in the dance world. First, it becomes socially inappropriate to send out links to videos that include the music to “Dance of the Sugar-Plum Fairy.” Second, every performing arts venue in New York is taken over by the annual...

A few days ago, Radiohead released the first video “Lotus Flower” off their new album “King of Limbs”. Since then, discussion boards have lit up with conversation about the choreography. Some fans love it, some hate it, and quite a few are perplexed by it. Many are asking “what...

After two weeks of Paula Abdul’s new show, “Live to Dance”, the writing is on the wall, and it’s not good news for the former American Idol judge. For the last two years, we’ve considered “Superstars of Dance” to be the nadir of network dance competition reality...

It’s 2011 and APAP is around the corner, 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 day decade. #1 Globalization (2010: #1) Last year, the...

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American Ballet Theater and New York City Ballet perform in Cuba for the first time in decades …proving once again that in the world of cultural diplomacy, you can’t go wrong by sharing the gift of dance. Americans for the Arts issues statement on election results Glad that they did this...

We’re trying something new here, because, why not. Kathryn Bennetts Resigns from Royal Ballet of Flanders Quick recap: The Minister of Culture for Flanders is placing the Opera and Ballet under a single intendant (Executive Director) in a move widely considered to be based on a spreadsheet without...

In my response to the NEA’s Audience 2.0 survey, I listed a number of key technologies that had permeated the consumer market place and changed audience behaviors since the survey began. I also asked a simple, but important question: “Once a dance company has actionable information and presumably...

This article was originally published on Dance/USA’s From the Green Room on July 1, 2010. The ultimate conclusion of the National Endowment for the Arts’Doc Brown tweets during a performance of ZviDance's Zoom Audience 2.0 survey, that “Arts participation through media appears to encourage...

Since announcing the premiere of the Dance on Camera Festival on TenduTV, we’ve had a few people commenting on the water effects in Ben Dolphin’s film Arising According to this interview, Arising was filmed using high-speed Phantom cameras, including the Phantom 65, which is capable of shooting...