Crowdfunding is an approach to raising money through a large number of individuals and is often enabled by internet and social media platforms.
The New Foundations: Strategic Plan for the British Columbia Arts Council 2018-2022 lays out the framework for the goals and actions of the council for the next five years. Working...
The Dance Studies Association aims to strengthen the visibility...
The Dancer as Agent Collection uses a variety of approaches...
See these Top Ten Grant Writing Tips, via Toronto Arts Council, around best practices for creating a successful grant application.
The Canadian Dance Assembly (CDA) is the voice of the professional dance sector in Canada and advocates for a healthy, sustainable environment in which professional dance practice can grow and...
See the article Thinking of applying for an artist grant? Read these expert tips first, via CBC Arts.
See Writing About Your Work, a series of resources via Dance Umbrella of Ontario, including:
HOW TO PREPARE WRITING FOR CANADA COUNCIL’S EXPLORE AND CREATE
PREPARING A FUNDING SUBMISSION
TIPS ON...
Urban Worker Project is an initiative to give a stronger voice to the growing numbers of independent workers across the country. Learn about their campaigns and resources, including their
Each election year, Arts Vote BC via the BC Alliance for Arts + Culture provide a range of resources for voters and candidates to keep arts...
The BC Alliance for Arts + Culture is British Columbia’s leading arts information aggregator and a resource to the arts, culture and heritage community. They offer many services to the...
Portland’s Risk/Reward Festival keeps a video bank of performances (including several Canadian artists).
What drives us? is an online publication that is the result of an ongoing investigation into the theme of festival sustainability.
“Festivals are interesting creatures. They usually emerge from, with and...
Dance Hole is a new online hub created by...
Via Tonic Theatre in the UK, here’s an infographic related to gender equality in the making and presenting of performance.
“It seems as though theatricality is no longer infiltrating art (as Michael Fried so adamantly warned us) but art has gradually become theatre. Participation seems to be the new “it,” particularly as visual art...
Dance in Canada, an in-depth entry from The Canadian Encyclopedia
Artist at Work, Proximity of Art and Capitalism by Bojana Kunst
Synopsis:
“The main affirmation of the artistic practice must today happen through the thinking about the conditions...
“We noticed that a lot of Internet artists were using the body as the primary subject of the work … and often the bodies are fragmented or distorted or sort of grotesque looking,” she...
Keeping Pace with Artistic Innovation: The Canada Council Revamps its Funding Model, an article via The Dance Current exploring the new national funding model beginning 2017 and its implications for...
Choreographing our Future: Strategies for Supporting Next Generation Arts Practice is a study by dance artist Shannon Litzenberger that looks at some of the fundamental assumptions regarding how the arts...
The Toronto Arts Foundation’s Creative Trust Research Fellowship blog is a great read on topics like paying artists, fundraising, astists as entrepreneurs, daily work flow…
STANCE, a blog by Seattle’s Velocity Dance Centre, is a public forum that responds to ways artists and audiences share stories, engage with live performances and...
Making Your Life As An Artist is a guide to building a balanced, sustainable artistic life. DON’T STARVE. MAKE ART.
The Saskatchewan Arts Alliance is an inclusive, member-driven coalition of arts organizations that provides a collective voice for the arts community of Saskatchewan.
Made in BC: Dance on Tour connects dance artists and presenters from around British Columbia to increase audience reach and touring opportunities for dance. In bringing together BC presenters, dance...
Speak With Your Feet
Attending an Annual General Meeting is a major service for dance companies. Your attendance is recorded and reported to funders that financially support these companies. Often companies...
WOW, have you ever checked out the Western Front’s online archive?
Speak With Your Feet
Dance does not exist in a vacuum. It is affected by, and related to, many things. Like all cultural forms, dance is part of a rich web...
Put out by Le Regroupement quebecois de la danse (RQD) the Choreographers Competency Profile presents the results of an occupational analysis focused on the profession of...
Speak With Your Feet
Speak to someone, everyday, about your art. Talk about dance with those you love, as well as to complete strangers.
How often are you confronted with questions...
Summer dance research time?! Looking beyond our town, city, province, country, the dance community is massive. Dance on film/video is a great way to see what is going on in...
Summer is a great time for research, perhaps to start thinking about new projects or because, with a bit more time on our hands, we just can. Please find below...
Staying connected with various regional organizations, the services they provide, the events they promote, is a great way to discover what is going on in our field across the country and can...
The Dance Current, on the web and in print, is a great resource for what is going on in dance all across Canada. CADA/West members receive a discount on subscriptions...
DCD is committed to the ongoing process of preserving works of dance artists through documentation, maintaining a bank of work for future reference and performance. They also encourage artists and...
The National Film Board is a great resource for films on dance and every other subject, new and old, most of which you can watch for free on their website.
Next month BC heads into provincial elections. We encourage you to take a few minutes to handwrite a thank you card to our politicians. Let them know how government funding means jobs,...
Are you an advocate for professional standards in dance? Great at fundraising? Passionate about training? Looking to develop new skills? Plenty of organizations rely on the contribution of committee members and joining is a...
What better way to learn more about the creative process, or get in on what inspires your favourite artist, than directly from the source? Artist talks, salons, and audience Q & A’s after performances...
Inside Jacob’s Pillow Dance Interactive‘s online exhibit you can view brief performance excerpts spanning from the 1930s to today.
UbuWeb Dance is presented in partnership with, and is largely curated by, Contemporary Dance Video Database. While dance has long been a part of
Volunteering at dance shows supports your dance community, your citizenship in it and helps expose you to live performing arts in your city.
Social media is a great place...
What helps get you through a long day of dancing?
Is there a website, accountant, printer, physio that you could not function without?
Where did you get those wicked kneepads?
Any good...
Arts Alive supports performing arts learning and engagement, including these helpful hints and links created specifically for aspiring dance artists.
At the 2012 on the MOVE, conference for emerging dance artists, hosted by the DTRC in Vancouver BC on February 10, I had the pleasure of...
From the Saskatchewan Arts Alliance, this document is a great community tool kit to help organizations and individuals advocate for the arts.
Anyone who cares about arts...
Talk about dance with those you love, as well as to complete strangers.
How often are you confronted with questions about what you do as a dancer?
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