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This Business of Dance – Flanders, TMP, Americans for the Arts
This Business of Dance – Flanders, TMP, Americans for the Arts
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...
Back to the Future: The NEA Survey on Arts Participation
Back to the Future: The NEA Survey on Arts Participation
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...
5 Things Football Shares with Dance
5. Both rely on a language that is near incomprehensible to those watching it for the first time. Post pattern? Battement? Positions? Slant cross? 4. NFL Hall of Famer Lynn Swann (In fact, there is a significant number of pro and collegiate players who take ballet, yoga and other movement classes). 3....
When “Think Tanks’ Thinking Tanks: The RAND/Wallace Study
The highly-respected RAND Corporation recently released a document discussing how to stem the declines in consumer demand for the arts. Not to sound all Joe-Biden-Loving-and-Respecting-John-McCain, but RAND does have great thinkers on the payroll. Unfortunately, in this case, the great thinking isn’t...