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
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
Remember that time that science and dance intersected? It happened here: The dance your Phd contest is the coolest thing I have heard of this week. The idea is that scientist explain their Phd thesis using interpretive movement. The rule is that the scientist has to actually perform in the video they make for the … Continue reading
Matt Sweet musings.. As a caveat to this whole note, please know that I blatantly stole the idea from here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture-professionals-network/culture-professionals-blog/2011/nov/25/theatre-trailers-do-they-work?fb=native&CMP=FBCNETTXT9038 Everyone wants to sell their show. Usually this is for two reasons: one they want to pay their bills, and two they wants somebody to see the work they have been developing for months. … 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
Smart move there You may be interested in this: frequent dancing actually makes you smarter. Check out this fascinating article http://socialdance.stanford.edu/syllabi/smarter.htm Now you know what to do when your brain is going at the speed of a slow.. slow.. crawl. Here’s something for the 2012 Agenda Check out Andrew Taylor’s blog: http://www.artsjournal.com/artfulmanager/main/a-new-invocation.php Quoting from his post: … Continue reading
If your company is a bus, your mission/mandate is the steering wheel. It influences the kinds of work your do and how you do it and helps you evaluate whether you have been able to stay on track over time. This kind of planning is the first step I like to take whenever I get … Continue reading
“I’m all for progress. It’s change I object to.” – attributed to Mark Twain OK – here’s the deal: change sucks. Change takes us out of our comfort zones: all those experts out there tell us (and it’s probably true) that most of us really don’t like change and that most of our resistance to … Continue reading
This week from Annie’s notebook: 1. The most beautiful thing I saw last week was a large glistening blob of a loose spider web gliding across in slowed time. I was walking on the pavement in a bright sunny day, and the sight of the glistening blob stopped me in mid-step. It was floating in the air at head height, … Continue reading
