by Kat Richter for The Dance Journal At the CultureWorks office on Saturday, April 6th, something rather unprecedented took place. Nearly twenty directors of small and mid-sized dance companies gathered together to share ideas and exchange information. Hosted by Steven Weisz of PhiladelphiaDance.org, the Artistic Directors Forum addressed funding, ticket prices, venues, audience development and [...]
The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage has awarded $914,500 through Dance Advance to 9 dance projects for 2013. Fringe/Arts Available Light 2013 Grantee: Presenting Organization, Production $250,000 Recovery and presentation of choreographer Lucinda Childs’s 1983 work Available Light with collaborators John Adams (music) and Frank Gehry (architect/scenic design). Tania Isaac open notebook: crazy beautiful [...]
The Philadelphia Live Arts Festival and Philly Fringe marked the beginning of a new era: The 17-year-old contemporary arts organization has officially changed its name to FringeArts. The new name, announced in conjunction with breaking ground on a versatile permanent home on Philadelphia’s burgeoning waterfront, reflects the organization’s mission to bring the world’s newest and most cutting-edge cultural [...]
The Independence Foundation Fellowships in the Arts announced that fellowships of up to $10,000 have been awarded to 8 local performing artists. These fellowships will support research and development projects in a wide-variety of disciplines. The Fellowships in the Arts were created to help individual artists take the next step in their personal artistic growth [...]
The Knight Arts Challenge Philadelphia is a $9 million initiative to draw the best and most innovative ideas out of local organizations and individuals seeking to transform the community through the arts. Sixty-nine innovative ideas were chosen as finalists this year, many from the Philadelphia dance community. Arising from more than 1,200 applicants, the finalists [...]
by Steven Weisz for The Dance Journal During the months of October and November 2012, I decided to embark on an informal experiment exploring new audience reaction to dance performances. My goal was to gain some personal insight in to why it is so difficult to cultivate audiences to see dance. While this experiment, because [...]
by Steven Weisz for The Dance Journal More and more dance projects and performances in the Philadelphia region are being funded through Kickstarter. The concept is fairly simple, an artist or organization explains their project on the web site, and if enough people pledge donations with in a given time period, the project is funded. [...]
Twelve local dance artists and organizations receive $812,000 in funding The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage has awarded $812,000 through Dance Advance to 12 dance projects, representing seven individual artists, three dance companies, and two presenting organizations in the Philadelphia area. Two individual artists are first-time grantees; one is a first-time applicant. These projects [...]
By Karen Harlin for The Dance Journal A small group of about a dozen Arts Administrators, Artists and Art supporters met on Tuesday evening, January 17th at the Community Education Center in Philadelphia to discuss how working together, sharing their talents, resources and assets can benefit all the participating organizations without conflict. Attendees came from [...]
At a public panel discussion in Rapid City, South Dakota, National Endowment for the Arts Chairman Rocco Landesman announced that the agency will award 863 grants to organizations and individual writers across the country. The awards total $22.543 million, encompass 15 artistic disciplines and fields, and support projects in 47 states, the District of Columbia, [...]
