Full Description
This book has systematic directions for those who are creating a dance company for young audiences: how to handle bookings, write effective grants, handle crowds of children, keep their interest high and deal with the unexpected--backstage, or onstage or costume! Important also: how to maintain the support and the appreciation of presenters, teachers and principals. Profiles of ten successful dance companies who perform for children are provided.
The book's touring and production information can be applied to almost any performing group that uses the medium of dance to deliver its message--from professional dance companies to university, high school and studio dance performers.
Contents
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Foreword by Lynnette Young Overby
Introduction
Part I—Dreaming and Creating
1. Defining Your Goals
2. Choreography That Appeals to Children... (Is Choreography That Appeals to Everyone!)
Part II—Producing
3. Production: Putting the Show Together
4. Marketing: Don't Sell Yourself Short
5. Publicity
6. Finance
7. Booking
Part III—Dancing
8. Touring: Basic Equipment, Checklist and Travel
9. In the School and Theater: Check-In, Set-Up and Safety
10. Good Liaisons Make Good Residencies
11. Teachers Who Help, Teachers Who Hinder
12. Arranging and Seating Audiences
13. Your Performance Voice
14. Performing for an Audience: Numbers, Cautions and Facts
15. Audience Participation
16. Don't Be a "Drop-In, Drop-Out" Company: Master Classes, Workshops and How to Handle Them
17. Assessment and the Structure of Evaluation: Questions to Ask Yourself and Your Audience, and Why
Part IV—Dancing Their Dreams: Ten Successful National
and International Dance Companies, and Interviews with Their Artistic Directors/Choreographers
18. Dr. Schaffer and Mr. Stern: Two Guys Who Dance about Math
19. Plankenkoorts: A "Dutch Treat" Trio from the Low Country
20. Frequent Flyers Productions: Soaring Through the Air, Rocky
deleteMountain Style
21. Flatfoot Dance Company in KwaZulu-Natal: Outreach in South Africa
22. Peanut Butter and Jelly Dance Company: A Sticky Boston Quartet Named for Food
23. Jasmine Pasch & Phew!!! Arts: London's Visionary and Her Company of Art Collaborators
24. Kinnect Dance Company: A University Troupe in Utah
25. CoMotion Dance Project: In Motion in Montana
26. Kaleidoscope: Seattle's Rainbow of Dancing Children
27. Dance Imagination: Creative Kids in Canada
Part V—Epilogue
28. "Dancing with the Lettuce Leaf": Things That Can Happen While
deleteTouring, with Suggestions and Advice
Appendix A: More Successful Companies
Appendix B: More Dance Performing Groups: Children, Professionals and Schools
Appendix C: Websites, Resources and Publications for Dance Companies, Dancers and Dance Educators
Chapter Notes
Bibliography
Index
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