Life as a Modern Dancer

Category: Blog Series: Building a Dance Company

  • Holding juxtaposition: post-performance reflections on “Four by Four”

    Holding juxtaposition: post-performance reflections on “Four by Four” By Emily Hansel Woohoo we did it! I produced my first evening-length choreographic work, and it was awesome! Cut to: everyone in the world asking me what I’m making next. I’m only half joking when I respond with, give me a few years to recover then try…

  • Inviting Us In: Four Ideas Around Marketing and Communication For Your Next Performance

    From my personal archives – the paper program from Bebe Miller Company: A History (Friday, January 25, 2013 at the YBCA Forum) Inviting Us In: Four Ideas Around Marketing and Communication For Your Next Performance By Jill Randall, Director of Life as a Modern Dancer When I think about the many effects of technology on…

  • Dreaming/Preparing/Dancing: 1 Day until Let Slip the Witches with Bellwether Dance Project

    This week we are sharing several previews before the premiere of Let Slip the Witches, with Bellwether Dance Project, at the ODC Theater in San Francisco, April 4-6, 2019. We will hear from choreographer Amy Foley as well from her collaborators.   Please join us! Purchase your tickets here.   Photo by Stephen Texeira. Front,…

  • A Very Big Leap: Getting 501(c)(3) Status

    Banning Bouldin – Founder and Artistic Director of New Dialect This week, I asked colleagues around the country to share about the decision to get official nonprofit 501(c)(3) status for their company. Thank you to Jo Kreiter, Amelia Rudolph, Banning Bouldin, and Keira Heu-Jwyn Chang for their generosity of spirit and support of the field! From…

  • Artist Profile #163: Kristin Damrow (Oakland, CA)

    Photo: George E. Baker Hometown: Mosinee, Wisconsin Current city: Oakland, California Age: 30 College and degree: B.A. Dance, Columbia College Chicago Website: http://www.kristindamrowcompany.com How you pay the bills: Teaching contemporary dance to ages 7-Adult All of the dance hats you wear: Choreographer, teacher, dancer, marketing / pr person, grant writer Non-dance work you do or…

  • 2017 in Review: From the Series “Building a Dance Company”

    The blog series "Building a Dance Company" aims to offer brass tacks ideas as well as inspiring stories and questions. Please find below the links to 8 posts from the year. Questions for Choreographers: Ideas from Dayna Hanson, Heidi Henderson, and Raja Feather Kelly Reconnecting with Choreographers Jenny Stulberg and Lauren Simpson of Simpson/Stulberg Collaborations…

  • Questions for Choreographers: Ideas from Dayna Hanson, Heidi Henderson, and Raja Feather Kelly

    When a dancer writes an Artist Profile for the blog, we frequently ask them to offer questions for other choreographers to consider. These questions and wonderings are beautiful opportunities to deepen and craft our work. Click on any artist's name to read their full artist profile. The work of Heidi Henderson; photo by Ian Douglas…

  • Reconnecting with Choreographers Jenny Stulberg and Lauren Simpson of Simpson/Stulberg Collaborations

    Jenny Stulberg and Lauren Simpson; photo by Robbie Sweeny Five words or phrases to describe your work together this calendar year: We listen to each other. We speak words. We are learning about lighting. We are learning about the way we work. The first dance we made together was some sort of divine dance gift;…

  • My Dance Week: Banning Bouldin

    Banning Bouldin is the Founder and Artistic Director of the company New Dialect, based in Nashville, Tennessee. To read her full artist profile from January 2016, please click here. From Banning: My break down for last week is below. We're performing our HEAP Project in multiple site-specific iterations throughout our 2017/2018 season, and just received word that the…

  • Mission Statements: 13 Examples

    Image: From AXIS Dance Company   Writing the Mission Statement for your organization, or re-writing it? Consider these 13 stellar examples from various dance companies, dance centers, theaters, and schools throughout the United States. Please add your org's Mission Statement in the comments section below too.   Camille A. Brown and Dancers: Committed to implementing…