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Come to Dance/NYC's Mid Year Symposium. Register Now and Save a Few Bucks.

Posted by David Johnston, on November 13, 2009 - 0 comments

Tags: dancers, dance service orgs, dance/nyc

From our friends at Dance/NYC, and our parent organization, Fractured Atlas. Check out the details below on the mid-season symposium.

 

Dance/NYC Mid-Season Symposium

Early Bird Registration

Available through December 31 2009!

One-day registration $100.00

Early Bird Special $80.00

Individual session registration will also be available after December 31^st.

 

Date: February 5^th (welcome reception) and 6^th (symposium) 8:30AM-6:00PM

Symposium: 3LD Art and Technology Center

 

General Session

Opening Plenary -The Changing Face of Dance Audiences, Donna Walker Kuhne, President Walker International Communications

 

Session 2 - IP and IT–Latest Technologies Impacting the Dance Field, Sydney Skybetter, Skybetter and Associates and Marc Kirschner, Tendu TV

 

Session 3 - Leadership, Start with the Why, Simon Sinek, Author

 

Session 4 – Concert vs. Commercial Dance, Sharon Gersten Luckman, Executive Director, Alvin Ailey

 

Closing Plenary - Telling the Story of Dance: Defining the Value of our Art Form, Russell Willis Taylor, President and CEO of National Arts Strategies and Dorothy Gunther Pugh, Executive Director Ballet Memphis

 

 

Breakout Session

Session 1: Insurance, Fractured Atlas

Session 2: Health and Wellness, Actor’s Fund

 

Click here to register.

 

"Arts for All" Seminar 11/17: Free Admission

Posted by Emily Bowles, on November 13, 2009 - 0 comments

Tags: free event, advocacy, lobbying

"Arts for All" is an informational seminar sponsored by The NYS Cultural Equity Group, in collaboration with Americans for the Arts.

 

The topics will include:

 

• * Advocacy Strategies
• * Lobbying for Cultural Equity at the National Level
• * Making the Case for the Re-creation of Expansion Arts at the NEA
• * Creative Economy in Communities of Color

 

The seminar will take place on Tuesday, Nov. 17, 10 AM - 3 PM at Pregones Theater in the Bronx.  Admission is free.  

 

More information is available on the official flyer (PDF). 

Performing DIY-Types Sought for New Year's Bash: "Transmutation"

Posted by Emily Bowles, on November 9, 2009 - 0 comments

Tags: performance opportunities, call for applications

Party people Winkel and Balktick have entertained the underground and NYC fringe folk for years (view their Flickr photos to see what colorful mayhem you've missed).  So, of course, they're pulling out all the stops for New Year's Eve 2010 and invite performing artists to be a part of the fun.

Fittingly called "Transmutation", the NYE 2010 fête-performance will be held on "the entire second floor of a 100-year-old warehouse featuring two enormous rooms with panoramic windows, 16' riggable ceilings, round columns, and level concrete floors."  There's a lot of alchemic possibility there... 

All the details are spelled out in this offical RFP:  Transmutation.pdf

 

If, after reading the PDF, you find your interest piqued, bring your questions, ideas and creative pals to the New Year's Eve Meeting & Social:

Tuesday, November 24 at Winkel's.
135 Plymouth St #208 in Dumbo, Brooklyn.  F to York St, A/C to High St.
Food and drink will be served.

Doors at 7:30 PM. Meeting at 8 PM.  
At 9 PM, everyone will be shuttled to the warehouse for a walkthrough of the space.  By 11 PM, everyone will be back in Dumbo.

RSVP to alchemy@wandbnyc.com requested, but not required.  There will be another meeting in a few weeks.

 

Image: Wedding of Wilkel & Balktick, April 2009, (c) 2009 Shoko Yanagawa

Con Edison Musicians Residency Concert Sun at Flushing Town Hall

Posted by David Johnston, on November 6, 2009 - 0 comments

Tags: musicians, composers, musicians' residency

Nivedita ShivRaj, our Con Edison Musicians' Residency composer, will give a free concert at Flushing Town Hall on Sunday, November 8 at 2 PM.  Check the Queens Ledger, the Queens Examiner, or New York Women Composers for detailed listings.  Nivedita plays a unique blend of carnatic (South Indian classical music) and contemporary music.  Sunday's concert feature several guests, including jazz guitarist Jason Goldstein. 

And be sure to check out Flushing Town Hall's new exhibition in the gallery, Talismans of Protection from Choson Korea, a fascinating collection of ancient locks, latches, and charms, on loan from Seoul, Korea.

Dancers: Need a Last-Minute Space to Rehearse?

Posted by Emily Bowles, on November 4, 2009 - 0 comments

Tags: rehearsal space, dance/nyc, dance space line, fractured atlas

Dance/NYC, Fractured Atlas and DanCAcT have launched the new Dance Space Line, providing up-to-date information on available rehearsal dance space each morning.

 

Call in to hear the recorded message (1-888-DSL-DNYC, a/k/a 1-888-375-3692) or follow the Dance Space Line on Twitter to receive updates.
 

For detailed information on hundreds of dance rehearsal spaces in all five boroughs, use www.nycDanceSpaces.org.