Imagine: You’ve founded a company for dancers who dance awesomely. You and your best friends, Maria and Tony, have banded together and started producing shows. The first one goes super well! The second one, you even managed to get some arts council support for. But by the third one, the three of you are disagreeing … Continue reading
Dance Umbrella of Ontario is proud to announce the appointment of Jay Rankin as its new Executive Director. Jay succeeds Christine Moynihan who has led the organization since 2002. Jay comes to the organization with vast experience working in the performing arts and dance. Mr. Rankin joins DUO having played key leadership roles at companies … Continue reading
Happy New Year! Yay! I got to do the first staff blog of 2012! I was heading home the other day, and it struck me how important it is to leave a trail. Well, we always leave some sort of trail, but to archive and share the trail – or progress – is another. When … Continue reading
With a Star-bucks hot chocolate in my hand, no work to do and the skies outside looking greyer than ever, there couldn’t be a more perfect afternoon to write my first blog post here at DUO. Where it all began. As it seems, I’ve approached that age where I am too old for trick or … Continue reading
— From the desk of Slade Lander The issue of copyright of choreography is too complicated to be dealt with in one blog so I will deal with one important concept: “work for hire.” As the term implies, the copyright for choreography will belong to whoever is paying for it unless there is some agreement … Continue reading
