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...

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...

TenduTV founder and general manager Marc Kirschner will be presenting at the Arts, Culture and Technology Meetup at 3 Legged Dog on Thursday, September 17th at 7:00 pm. This event is currently sold out. EVENT LINK Synopsis: Video is one of the most powerful communication tools we have at the moment–both...

The Red One Camera System, http://www.red.com Videographers and dance film makers should be quite pleased to read the above, especially because they were not spoken by me, but by Alistair Spaulding of Sadler’s Wells as part of his plenary speech on Saturday. The importance of video was a theme...

Like many New Yorkers, I was surprised and disappointed to read that Charles Schumer voted in support of the Coburn Amendment. You know, that pretty little piece of redneck legislative garbage that stripped “any … museum, theater [or] art center” from receiving any bailout funds in...

Gen Hashimoto in Jennifer Muller Our wish has been granted. In November, we attended the first “Choreography Exposed” at the Jennifer Muller Studios, and on Thursday, they’re doing it again – this time for the piece “Edge”, which will be part of the company’s...

Whip out your highlighters – The “full” list has been posted. Executive Directors and development staff… happy reading. Don’t worry… it’s only 164 pages, single spaced, small type. Unfortunately, this isn’t a complete full list. There are additional stakeholders...