Cunningham troupe to tour Russia for State Department

State Department to Back Merce Cunningham Dance Company Tour of Russia
by Patrick Healy, The New York Times, June 6, 2011

Choreography or ELSE!

dance-techTV announces its new online performance series, Choreography or ELSE, featuring:

International choreographers, dance artist or directors that continue to challenge traditional and contextual notions of choreography. They problematize the performance of movement with their on-going experimentation with compositional and aesthetic strategies, dramaturgic approaches, non-conventional spaces, appropriating uses of the new technologies, crossing disciplinary boundaries and dwelling on cultural hybridity.

In this series, the bi-monthly broadcast of the selected works will be accompanied with the publication of rich media supporting material about that specific performance and choreographer such as: reviews, interviews, essays and other references.

The platform dance-tech.net will offer a interactive space of on-line dialogue with the featured artist.

The series will launch with While we were holding it together by Ivana Muller (Croatia/Holland/France) on January 8. The following three programs will be devoted to Mette Ingvarsten (Denmark), Gilles Jobin (Switzerland) and Tere O'Connor (USA).

The content will be globally available and featured for a month on dance-techTV. 

This project is only possible by the collaboration of the artists. 

Series artists (confirmed)

David Zambrano (Venezuela/Holland) 

Emio Greco | PC (Holland) 

Gilles Jobin (Switzerland) 

Ivana Muller (Croatia/Holland/France) 

Jose Navas (Venezuela/Canada) 

Kate Weare (Canada/USA) 

Kettly Noel (Mali) 

Mette Ingvarsten (Denmark) 

Milka Djordjevich and Dragana Bulut (Serbia/USA) 

Miguel Gutierrez (USA) 

La Ribot (Spain/Switzerland) 

Rachid Ouramdane (France) 

Radhuane El Meddeb (Tunisia/France) 

Roger Bernat (Spain) 

Sasa Asentic (Serbia) 

Sol Pico (Spain) 

Tamara Cubas (Uruguay)

Oliver Dubois (France) 

Tere O'Connor (USA) 

Yanira Castro (USA) 

and others!

For further information on dance-techTV and this series, click here or email marlon@dance-tech.net.

"The Dance Insider" seeks investor

Received today from Paul Ben-Itzak of The Dance Insider:

Own the turnkey publication in dance--for free. The Dance Insider Online, the most influential magazine in dance, is available for free to an investor ready to pay a salary to its editor and per story compensation to its writers for a set period of time, in exchange for a majority interest in the magazine.

The DI's assets include the most recognizeable brand of online dance journalism in the business; 12+ years of archived reviews, news, commentary, photography and art from around the world produced by the top journalists in dance; and an e-mail list of dance studio owners, company directors, college dance department directors, theater directors, media, dancers, teachers, students, and more. The DI had more than 3 million hits in 2009 from 160 countries.

Interested parties contact publisher Paul Ben-Itzak at paul@danceinsider.com.

Paul Ben-Itzak 

Editor & Publisher
The Dance Insider

New online presence for the Ailey organization

Visit the new online home of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater and keep up with all things Ailey!

Congratulations to Chris Elam and Misnomer Dance Theater

Misnomer Dance Theater wins Ideablob's $10,000 contest: developing online tools for the arts

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Vote for dance online

Chris Elam of Misnomer Dance Theater writes:

"I wanted to let you know about a new series of free tools that we are developing to serve the performing arts and to ask for your help in getting the word out about an opportunity that we have to win $10,000 to help us create them. If you can read the blurb below, and if you have a context to do so, share it, this would be greatly appreciated. The contest runs for all of December, but the votes between now and Dec 7th are the most important so if you can help spread the word in the next few days that would be especially appreciated. Thank you for your consideration. I send my best wishes!"

Misnomer Dance Theater has put together a proposal to build online tools for the dance world. Please take two minutes to vote for us on IdeaBlob to win $10,000 toward building these tools to share with dance and theater artists to help them increase bookings and revenue and give online audiences more engaging experiences. The web has created new opportunities for artists and we are asking you to help enable us to build these resources for the arts. This first round of voting ends December 7th, so we need you to support our idea on IdeaBlob today! With your vote and this $10k, we'll be creating exciting ways for people to discover arts online! Vote here.

What will Misnomer do if we win $10,000 for this idea?

Your vote will help us:

1) BUILD web-streaming capabilities for rehearsals enabling audiences to "attend" live rehearsals online and interact directly with artists.

2) CREATE an online theater in which visitors can watch and direct performances from multiple perspectives including back stage views, and performers' point of view via body mounted cameras.

3) DEVELOP tools to request and display the geography of artists online audiences. Venues in new cities can then have ready-made audience bases.

We hope these online tools will help transform artist's websites into sites of participation. We anticipate this will create great impact in the arts world!

VOTE FOR US on IdeaBlob (reg req'd)! Or, heck, register your own idea!

"For people who want to be better informed, the Internet itself is the key. For those who want to join the process, the Web is where we merely start." -- Dan Gillmor, We the Media