{"id":372,"date":"2003-09-18T08:46:04","date_gmt":"2003-09-18T15:46:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp\/2003\/09\/the_lean_get_leaner\/"},"modified":"2003-09-18T08:46:04","modified_gmt":"2003-09-18T15:46:04","slug":"the_lean_get_leaner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/main\/the_lean_get_leaner.php","title":{"rendered":"The lean get leaner&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arts.gov\/pub\/ResearchReports.html#Organizations\">report by the NEA<\/a> shows a grim recent and future view of dance organizations in a down economy (also covered on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.backstage.com\/backstage\/features\/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1977325\">backstage.com<\/a>). <\/p>\n<p>\nArts Endowment Chairman Dana Gioia puts on as positive a spin as he can on the findings, which predict as much as a 30% drop in earned income for nonprofit dance organizations in the next few years (at a time when contribution, grants, and other support will be tight, as well):<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"blogquote\">\n&#8220;Contrary to its artistically ephemeral nature, American dance has proven resilient to shifting economic conditions. Dance companies&#8217; ability to adapt to changing environments speaks to their creativity and persistence.&#8221;\n<\/div>\n<p>\nIn other words, dancers and dance organizations survive and continue <i>despite<\/i> their environment. For a wonderful discussion of why, take a look at my weblog neighbor Tobi Tobias&#8217; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/tobias\/archives20030701.shtml#46629\">interchange with dancers<\/a> about why they continue to do what they do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new report by the NEA shows a grim recent and future view of dance organizations in a down economy (also covered on backstage.com). Arts Endowment Chairman Dana Gioia puts on as positive a spin as he can on the findings, which predict as much as a 30% drop in earned income for nonprofit dance [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-372","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}