Resources
In this section, you'll find a multitude of listings for artist service organizations, presenters, grant makers, et all. Each listing includes a link to the organization's website as well as a brief snippet from their "about" pages. If you would like to submit something for listing, or would like your listing updated, email us at dance.elephant@gmail.com
choreograph.net
choreograph.net is an online journal growing a community of knowledge about how we recognise, cultivate and negotiate a state of dance in human and other systems. The desire is to facilitate a community of practice around a sense of choreography as a new and open metaphor.
Conflux Festival
http://www.confluxfestival.org
Conflux is the annual New York festival for contemporary psychogeography, the investigation of everyday urban life through emerging artistic, technological and social practice. At Conflux, visual and sound artists, writers, urban adventurers and the public gather for four days to explore their urban environment.
Contact Quarterly
CONTACT QUARTERLY, biannual journal of dance, improvisation, performance, and contemporary movement arts is the longest living, independent, artist-made, not-for-profit, reader-supported magazine devoted to the dancer's voice.
Contact Quarterly
http://www.contactquarterly.com
Contact Collaborations, Inc. has served the international dance and improvisation community since 1978. It includes:
CONTACT QUARTERLY biannual dance and improvisation journal, a vehicle for moving ideas
CONTACT EDITIONS: produces, publishes, distributes, and promotes non-periodical new dance literature
VIDEODA: archives, distributes, and produces videotapes of Contact Improvisation and other improvised dance and new dance forms.
PERFORMANCE & WORKSHOP/CONFERENCE PROJECT: organizes symposia devoted to the investigation, dissemination, and performance of contemporary movement work.
Creative Capital
Creative Capital, a New York City-based nonprofit organization, acts as a catalyst for the development of adventurous and imaginative ideas by supporting artists who pursue innovation in form and/or content in the performing and visual arts, film and video, and in emerging fields. We are committed to working in partnership with the artists whom we fund, providing advisory services and professional development assistance along with multi-faceted financial aid and promotional support throughout the life of each Creative Capital project.
Creative Time
Creative Time commissions, produces, and presents adventurous artworks of all disciplines in the public realm. We provide hundreds of emerging and established artists with unparalleled opportunities to create ambitious new works that expand their practices and foster career growth. Each year, Creative Time also offers millions of people rare encounters with contemporary art beyond racial, economic, and age factors, thereby enlivening the everyday experience of New York City.
Critical Dance
www.criticaldance.com and www.ballet-dance.com are hosted, maintained, moderated and published by CriticalDance, an international non-profit entity founded for the purpose of promoting and supporting the dance arts, including dance arts professionals, organizations, companies, presenters, writers and audiences, through Moderated Public Forums and Events, Periodicals, Financial and Resource Support.
Dance and Faith
http://danceandfaith.blogspot.com/
This blog serves to: 1. facilitate a clear interfaith dialogue among contemporary dance artists; 2. explore the intersection of religious involvement and contemporary dance in a spirit of faith 3. document the creative process of the new interfaith work, "Foundations" by choreographer Marin Elizabeth Leggat
dance bloggers
DanceBloggers.com is a central hub for people who blog about dance in English. The site will help dance bloggers connect and follow the dance blogosphere; it will also allow people interested in dance and blogging to learn more about the field.
Dance Theater Workshop
One of America’s preeminent performing arts institutions, Dance Theater Workshop maintains an uncompromising mission to identify, present, and support independent contemporary artists and companies to advance dance and live performance in New York and worldwide. Dance Theater Workshop is a center for the development and presentation of contemporary dance and performance, and for the artists who create it. Dance Theater Workshop fully presents over 110 performances by some 45 different artists and companies each year.