What is fair compensation for an artist's work? Ask W.A.G.E.

HV: How do you respond to arts organizations that say that this might put an unfair financial burden on their work?

W.A.G.E.: Our response is that the practice of non-payment, partial payment, and overall inadequate compensation has placed an unfair financial burden on artists for far too long. What might at first seem unfair may in fact be the beginning of a challenging process of reordering institutional priorities — it is within and because of this process that the paradigm will begin to shift.

Read more:

How Much Will Artists Be Paid Under the New W.A.G.E. Certification Program?
by Hrag Vartanian, Hyperallergic, October 14, 2014

The fiscal cliff threatens dance and arts funding

 How the fiscal cliff will affect dancers and dance companies
 by Steven Weisz, The Dance Journal, Dec 28th, 2012

New York nonprofit dance examined

The State of New York Nonprofit Dance
by holbart, The State of Dance in the Union, Septembr 14, 2011

Talk about NYC's nonprofit dance

Dance/NYC
invites you to

State of NYC Nonprofit Dance: A Town Hall Meeting

Monday, September 12, 5:30-7pm

at the 92nd Street Y

Join Dance/NYC to discuss preliminary findings from the forthcoming research study, State of NYC Nonprofit Dance, made possible by leadership support from the Rockefeller Brothers Fund and The New York Community Trust. Based on the first-ever New York State Cultural Data Project data on NYC nonprofit dance groups, this report will provide a snapshot of a vital segment of the NYC dance industry and its activity, audiences, finances and resources. Led by cultural researcher Catherine Lanier and Anne Coates, new Vice President, Research and Special Projects, The Municipal Art Society of New York, we will in this discussion open up our investigation to the field and mine the data on dance for opportunities for policy, funding and management, working together to move NYC forward.

92nd Street Y
Lexington Avenue at 92nd Street, Manhattan
(directions)

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Farewell to the Ohio

Robert Lyons’s ‘Nostradamus’ at Ohio Theater
by Alexis Soloski, The New York Times, August 4, 2010

Theaters in crisis

New York Nonprofit Theaters Brace for Even Tougher Season
by Patrick Healy, The New York Times, April 3, 2009