Cultural Policy
November 2002, 36 pages. Center for an Urban Future, 212-479-3338, www.nycfuture.org
Read More..."Without getting on a soapbox, I would say that dancing is as much a calling as it is anything else. Don't think of it as a career. You're stupid if you do. You've got to have something burning in your gut that you want to express."
“I don't want people who want to dance, I want people who have to dance.”
Are you the leaf, the blossom or the hole?
O body swayed to music, O brightening glance,
How can we know the dancer from the dance?
— by William Butler Yeats
Read More...Ensembles are marked by a sustained commitment to collaboration..... The ensemble process allows for the development of a distinctive artistic vision and language unique to all artists involved.
— excerpt from the Flintridge Foundation theater mission
— Hernando DeSoto, The Mystery of Capital
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Read More...Two related sessions at grantmaking conferences last fall addressed important questions concerning the relationship of art, culture, and the environment. In each case, funders sought practical information about creative collaboration and successful cross-sector funding. Whether labeled "arts" or "environment" funders, grantmakers craved creative ways to attract new partners — both individuals and organizations — to their work.
Read More...2002, 231 pages, $24.95 paper, $65 cloth. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., New York
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