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...
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...
The Dance Studies Association aims to strengthen the visibility and...
The Dancer as Agent Collection uses a variety of approaches...
Attendance Trends: Why Won’t They Come?, recent findings on attendance trends and barriers via the Canadian Arts Presenting Association.
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...
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.
Bathtub Bran is an interview show by Bran Ramsey on YouTube and Facebook featuring dance artists in...
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 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.
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 our...
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 links...
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.
Check out the Audience Development Specialists Blog for tips and discussion on how to grow your audiences.
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’.
In 2006, a group of artists’ associations and individuals came together in response to the growing awareness that senior Canadian artists are experiencing significant challenges. Before they could develop the programs and services to...
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,...
Canadian Society for Dance Studies is a support and advocacy group for anyone who studies or works in the field of Canadian dance studies.
Dance studies encompass a broad range of research areas including...
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...