NYC Performing Arts Spaces Blog

Out with the Aughts: It's Twenty-Ten!

Posted by Emily Bowles, on January 19, 2010 - 0 comments

Tags: musicians' residency, studies, shameless self-promotion

 

Happy New Year from

NYC Performing Arts Spaces!

 

More than halfway through January and we're still writing "2009" occasionally...  but what better moment to reflect on the past year? 

 

 

We are certainly proud of our accomplishments, which included:
    

• * Keeping our online databases -- with over 1,600 detailed listings of New York City performing arts spaces -- completely free. 
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• * Using our Facebook page, Twitter, this blog and our e-newsletter, PAS/pace, to keep you informed of residencies, grants, events, housing opportunities and new spaces in the NYC performing arts community.
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• * Assessing the impact of the economic downturn on New York-based performing artists and cultural facilities via survey (read the results [PDF]).
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•  * Developing and awarding the first Con Edison Musicians' Residencies.

In 2010, we'll continue to build on these achievements by:

 

•     * Adding even more spaces for theatre, dance, music, film and special events to nycPASpaces.org.
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•     * Becoming the prototype for other space databases that will be developed in other U.S. cities.
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•     * Connecting more NYC musicians with their communities through an expansion of the Con Edison Musicians' Residencies: Composers Program (read the overview, guidelines and application here).
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•     * Continuing to study problems that impact performing artists in NYC, such as with our current Mellon Dance Space Needs Assessment Study.

We wish you peace, comfort and inspiration for the coming year!

Thanks for your continuing support!

Eugenie Cowan, Director
Kirsten Nordine, Program Director
David Johnston, Consultant and Program Director, Mellon Dance Study
Jonna McElrath, Administration, Mellon Dance Study
David Sheingold, Dance Community Consultant, Mellon Dance Study
Emily Bowles, Marketing Director

New Dance Space Needs Assessment Study

Posted by Kirsten Nordine, on September 14, 2009 - 0 comments

Tags: rehearsal space, dance companies, choreographers, studies

Fractured Atlas has received a grant of $41,500 from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to enable its NYC Performing Arts Spaces program to conduct a study assessing rehearsal space needs and availability for professional, New York City-based, single-choreographer dance companies, with a focus on mid-career choreographers.

The NYC Performing Arts Spaces study seeks to help solve a problem experienced particularly by these dance companies as they prepare for touring or New York City seasons.

Optimally, these dance companies want consistent, affordable, well-located rehearsal space, but are not in an organizational or financial position to afford or maintain their own space. The study would examine the need and demand for rehearsal space among professional dance companies without their own rehearsal facilities, the barriers to the effective use of existing spaces, and the potential enhancements or changes in policy that could result in an increased supply or use of existing spaces. If warranted, the study would ascertain whether one or more new or renovated dedicated rehearsal facilities would serve the existing and projected space needs of dance companies.

Read the full announcement here.

More about NYC Performing Arts Spaces' studies.