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Dance Symposium: Building New and Non-Traditional Dance Audiences: CUNY Dance Initiative

Dance Symposium: Building New and Non-Traditional Dance Audiences: CUNY Dance Initiative

Pod de Deux attended this Dance Symposium discussion and workshop and learned how the CUNY Dance Initiative (CDI) is developing new dance audiences while offering NYC dance companies free space to rehearse and perform. After the session, we interviewed PDD alum Jamie Benson, who presented helpful tips on how to build a following with social media strategies. We also recorded enthusiastic feedback…

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Dance Symposium: Philanthropic Approaches to Advancing Racial Equity

Dance Symposium: Philanthropic Approaches to Advancing Racial Equity

Audience members were enthusiastic to share what they learned from this session, which spotlighted select funding initiatives underway to address racial justice and equity in dance and the larger cultural sector. https://poddedeux.files.wordpress.com/2016/04/philanthropy-and-diversity-mixdown-final.mp3 This post is part of a series of interviews conducted at the Dance/NYC 2016 Dance Symposium.  

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Dance Symposium: Creative New York

Dance Symposium: Creative New York

In June 2015, the Center for Urban Future published its second Creative New York report, which tracks trends in New York’s creative sector over a ten-year period and offers recommendations for real estate affordability, government funding and support, economic and community development, and diversity and inclusivity. This session, moderated by the researcher Adam Forman, puts members of the…

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Dance Symposium: Resources for dancers and companies

Dance Symposium: Resources for dancers and companies

Organizations were onsite at the Dance/NYC 2016 Dance Symposium, offering information to dancers and dance-makers.  We learned more about valuable resources provided by The Actor’s Fund (which recently acquired Career Transitions for Dancers), Brooklyn Arts Exchange, Jean-Louis Law, and Pentacle. Listen to learn more! https://poddedeux.files.wordpress.com/2016/04/resources-for-dancemakers-mixdown…

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Every dancer is musical: Miro Magloire

Every dancer is musical: Miro Magloire

We sat down with Miro Magloire, choreographer of New Chamber Ballet, to learn how his musical background influences his expressive style of contemporary ballet choreography, what it was like being a piano accompanist for ballet class, and how he selects fascinating contemporary composers for his work, like Karlheinz Stockhausen.  We also had an interesting chat about the definition of musicality…

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