More dance videos

This has come up a couple places the last few days so I guess they're doing a big push to get viewers on Tendu TV. As far as I can tell their mission is to take dance to the computer-savvy masses. News is that they'll be putting Dance on Camera entries from the past on Hulu. That's kinda cool for most of us who didn't go to the Dance on Camera events to begin with. And it's not just your prime time TV online. Enjoy!

Preview of Pilobolus

Blake Beckham's preview for Creative Loafing of the Pilobolus show coming up this Thursday night at the Ferst Center. And does anyone want to take the DanceATL table and bring it back? (I don't know that I can get tickets for the volunteer for this one, they tend to sell out!)

Wormhole Project

Choreography workshop coming up and here's a link to an article describing the project.

Emory Arts Criticism Symposium

I want to thank everyone at Emory Creativity and the Arts for hosting the symposium on arts criticism today. I found the discussion really interesting, both on the panel and with the wide variety of people present, professors, students, artists, arts administrators, and of course editors and arts writers. My suggestion is to continue the topic of the future of arts criticism and focus it on dance in Atlanta specifically at the next DanceATL meeting in April (date to be announced hopefully soon!) I hope that people find this a useful topic to address? Please comment!

Today's symposium was on the role of the academy (higher education, though the early exposure to arts in elementary etc. came up many times as being very important and currently being reduced or completely eliminated.) From a practical level, those of us in small dance companies or making work as individual artists have a harder time getting coverage for what we do for one because we often can't afford to do more than a one-shot show, and also because as newspapers reduce their staff, the single writer left to cover all disciplines can only focus so much on dance. Though fortunately we do have two dance writers in town again, one of whom, Blake Beckham, was on today's panel. A question on the practical side was what we can do to continue to support critical writing about arts. One thought is to follow the model of Dance Source Houston, who uses some of their membership and other funding support to pay writers to cover the dance in Houston. Is that a model we would be interested in pursuing here? It is necessary especially in a vacuum where there are little to no voices speaking about dance online or in print. We have come out of that vacuum to resume some coverage, thank you to the editors and writers who are working to do that, but I'm sure no one would resent more voices being added to the discussion!
And now it's a beautiful day and I'm going to the park with my daughter! Enjoy spring! (before it rains again...)

Spring break means dance

It's spring break most places, which means ACDF! Here's a look at selected pieces from Spelman and KSU http://ping.fm/o6mrU

Kennesaw State Dance partnership in Dance Mag

Here's a link to a Dance Magazine article about a new Kennesaw State Univ. and Atlanta Ballet partnership. Dance Mag articles in January and March, oh, and the March cover article about Twyla Tharp's dancers in Come Fly Away, which of course premiered here as Come Fly with Me. Yay for more coverage for the exciting things that are going on in Atlanta dance! (And thanks, Cynthia, for writing the KSU one, too.)

MAD Festival review

Cynthia Perry's review for ArtsCriticATL of the Modern Atlanta Dance Festival this past weekend that featured performances by 7 Metro Atlanta modern dance companies.Another one I didn't have babysitting to make it to, but I hope everyone who performed and saw it enjoyed it. And thank you to the Kennesaw State dance students who staffed the dance table and thanks to Mary Jane for shuttling it out to the theatre and back!