2010 promises to be the beginning of a new age for the dance field, and great and wide reaching opportunities become available to even the newest of dance companies. But, once these doors open, it remains to be seen how many companies will have the infrastructure required to walk through them. Here are...

German news is sadly reporting that Pina Bausch has died at the age of 68. According to the news reports, Ms. Bausch was diagnosed with cancer less than a week ago, although there is no confirmation that the cancer was directly related to her death. Our deepest sympathies to her friends, family and loved...

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...

The Dance/USA conference kicks off in Houston tomorrow night, and like responsible social media enthusiasts, we’re going to be twittering/tweeting from the event. Or, as some of our content partners have called it “twitting”, “tweetering”, “teetering”, or “twatting”. To...

Reviews from Taylor Gordon, Philip (whom I finally got to meet, albeit briefly) and Ariel. The reviews are fairly mixed. Without getting into too much detail, since I’m not a critic, the consensus was that the film had good moments, not-so-good moments, and room for improvement. From what I’ve...

First, A Time to Dance raised the question, and Danciti added some valid points to the discussion. Since I wanted to be sure to link to everyone who has chimed in, I’m going to continue the conversation here. Disclaimer: I’m not a lawyer, so yada yada yada this isn’t legal advice. Also,...

And before we even got around to discussing it, the number grew by another 100,000. It will still be another few weeks before we’re up and running with this new distribution, but details will come soon. Did we mention something about HD content? We didn’t? Hmmm…

I know what we learned. Absolutely nothing. But that’s because we read the Terms of Service wherever we have content, even simple promotional content. It’s why, prior to the change, that we had still photos on our Facebook page, but no video. We may be bringing the dance world full on into...

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...

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...