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 Alexa Mardon...
Via Tonic Theatre in the UK, here’s an infographic related to gender equality in the making and presenting of performance.
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“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...
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.
WOW, have you ever checked out the Western Front’s online archive?
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...
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...
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.
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
archive.org is a library of free music, movies, books and more. Find media without copyright worries.
Making Sense of Contemporary Dance: Australian Investigation into Audience Interpretation and Enjoyment Levels, a short report on research into ‘Conceiving Connections’.
From Hill Strategies, the Arts Research Monitor provides synopses of qualitative and quantitative research findings in arts and culture. The site is useful to artists, arts managers, funders, policy makers,...
Prepared for the Alliance of Mid-Career Dance Creators by Shannon Litzenberger, this report provides an examination of the challenges, needs and opportunities of Toronto-based mid-career contemporary dance creators. Based on...