Marya Warshaw at the BAX Arts & Artists in Progress Awards 2015

On Life as a Modern Dancer, the blog feature My Dance Week literally asks artists to write out or sketch out their weeks. These schedules candidly share time spent working, emailing, commuting, rehearsing, training, and spending time with family and friends. 

Peter DiMuro, Executive Artistic Director of The Dance Complex (Boston)

Marya Warshaw, Founding/Executive Director of Brooklyn Arts Exchange (BAX)

Lucia Scheckner, Education Director of Brooklyn Arts Exchange

Banning Bouldin, Artistic Director of New Dialect (Nashville, TN)

Daniel Charon, Artistic Director of Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company (Salt Lake City)

Sarah Lass, Company Administrator for Tiffany Mills Company (New York City)

David Leventhal, Program Director for Dance for PD® through the Mark Morris Dance Group 

Laura Faure, the recently retired Director of the Bates Dance Festival, shared a few thoughts in her artist profile in 2016. She answered the question, "Can you describe a typical week as Director of Bates?"

September: A typical week for me in the Fall is working simultaneously to close up the past year and to get the new year going, so writing grant reports, reconciling the budget, setting up fundraising prospects for coming year, designing the next year’s programs, confirming the performance series, hiring faculty, and setting up my calendar of travel for the year.

July, on the other hand, is the middle of the Festival, so I am captaining the ship in collaboration with my wonderful staff, keeping things moving on a daily basis, problem solving, guiding the work of the interns, hosting artists, MCing all the public events, and enjoying the amazing community of artists gathered at Bates.

Laura Colby, Founder and Director of Elsie Management, also shared through her artist profile in 2017:

The granting process and booking process are cyclical. (I bring up grants as they are instrumental in the creation and often touring of new work.) So, a typical week at Elsie really depends on which part of the year it falls in – and what our immediate focus is that week. This is often based on where we are in the booking process. We are always managing tour dates – our companies that are out on the road that day – while we are also looking for the next opportunity for a new work to be created.

I travel to see our artists' new works, to be at specific performance engagements, as well as to our industry's convenings. So a lot of my typical week is in an airplane.

A typical week can include chasing marketing materials from our artists, anxiously following a visa petition, waiting on a grant award for a new project, and tracking our artists' payments from venues!

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