Via Generator, A Values-Based Approach to Hiring features conversations around hiring processes:
“Their respective approaches offer insight for companies currently undergoing transition, as well as companies seeking to clarify values to...
New research led by the UCL Division of Psychological and Language Sciences has found that watching a live theatre performance can synchronize your heartbeat with other people in audience, regardless of if you know...
Crowdfunding is an approach to raising money through a large number of individuals and is often enabled by internet and social media platforms.
See the 2019 CHPC Committee Report on Gender Parity in Canadian Artistic and Cultural Organizations
As of January 2020 Dance International magazine moves to an all-free web-only platform. See their in-depth features, reviews and reports by established and emerging writers. Writers can pitch stories and...
Check out the Audience Development Specialists Blog for tips and discussion on how to grow your audiences.
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 and...
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
Attendance Trends: Why Won’t They Come?, recent findings on attendance trends and barriers via the Canadian Arts Presenting Association.
Via Non Profit: Always Fresh, Kids are the future? So are older adults! is an article advocating for an end to ageist practices across our sectors.
IN TERMS OF PERFORMANCE is a keywords anthology designed to provoke discovery across artistic disciplines.
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The article $5 or $75, That Is the Question by Owais Lightwala for Intermission, explores Pay What You Can Afford and other pricing structures for theatre shows.
Art is an industry. Fuck it., an article via artist Oliver Connew: “I must shift my focus elsewhere to people who tell it like it is and then have the...
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...
Talking Sh*t with Tara Cheyenne is a series of interviews with the personalities of Vancouver’s arts scene, created and presented by Tara Cheyenne Performance.
Our Program Manager Jessica Wadsworth takes you through our mandates, programs, membership guidelines, plans and more in this Webinar.
Fractured Atlas is an American organization that supports cultural sector workers and operations. Mostly this includes individual artists and arts organizations. Check...
“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...
Bathtub Bran is an interview show by Bran Ramsey on YouTube and Facebook featuring dance artists...
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...
One Dance UK’s Healthier Dancer Programme works to improve the physical and psychological health and well being of dancers. Visit their website for other resources as...
The article How to write a dance discusses problems with dance notation and writing down dance.
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 like...
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 of...
Advocacy Alert from the Canadian Dance Assembly:
With the 2015 federal election on the minds of every MP, this International Dance Day remind your MP that your vote is directly-related...