{"id":494,"date":"2010-07-13T16:11:17","date_gmt":"2010-07-13T16:11:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp\/?p=494"},"modified":"2010-07-13T16:11:17","modified_gmt":"2010-07-13T16:11:17","slug":"not_center_stage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/2010\/07\/not_center_stage\/","title":{"rendered":"Not Center Stage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My client David Lang has two dance projects coming up this fall, one with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nycballet.com\/nycb\/home\/\">New York City Ballet<\/a> and the other with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guggenheim.org\/new-york\/education\/works-and-process\">Works &amp; Process<\/a> at the Guggenheim. This means I&#8217;ve been doing a lot of reaching out to dance writers I&#8217;ve never met or worked with before, so far with absolutely no (0) success, but I persevere!<\/p>\n<p>You should know that I think the <i>New York Times<\/i> website is basically The Most Impressive Thing (as it should be); minutes after we learned that George Steinbrenner passed away this morning, the <i>Times<\/i> had a slideshow of archival photos of him on their homepage. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"GeorgeSteinbrenner.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/GeorgeSteinbrenner.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"margin: 0pt auto 20px; text-align: center; display: block;\" height=\"353\" width=\"500\" \/>I am also continuously surprised by the smart, new features they add seemingly weekly. For example, yesterday I noticed while reading an article about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/07\/12\/business\/media\/12jezebel.html\"><i>Jezebel\/Daily Show chaos<\/i><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/07\/12\/business\/media\/12jezebel.html\"><\/a>, that the <i>Times<\/i> site now tells you where outgoing links will take you if you click on them, for example, &#8220;More articles about Jon Stewart&#8221; (links to the <i>Times <\/i>archives), &#8220;An Observer article about her [Gaby Darbyshire],&#8221; and &#8220;A post about her [Jessica Coen].&#8221; They seem to have some kinks to work out with this feature, since there are quite a few typos, but it&#8217;s very cool. Another new feature I noticed while reading that article (and other <i>Times <\/i>articles today), was this little &#8220;Speed Read&#8221; box that slides in from the right side of your screen; basically, this is a link to a CliffNotes version of all the Media &amp; Advertising articles posted so far that day. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"NYTimesSpeedRead.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/NYTimesSpeedRead.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"margin: 0pt auto 20px; text-align: center; display: block;\" height=\"310\" width=\"500\" \/>This is why I was surprised when my assistant Nathan discovered the following while researching writers who might be interested in a piece on David: &#8220;Dance&#8221; is not a sub-category under ARTS on the homepage.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"NYTimesDance1.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/NYTimesDance1.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"margin: 0pt auto 20px; text-align: center; display: block;\" height=\"1191\" width=\"500\" \/>&#8230;and then suddenly it is when you click on the general ARTS section:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"NYTimesDance2.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/NYTimesDance2.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"margin: 0pt auto 20px; text-align: center; display: block;\" height=\"201\" width=\"500\" \/>Same goes for Art &amp; Design, but I&#8217;ll deal with that when one of my composers does a site-specific work.&nbsp; Strangely inconsistent, right?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My client David Lang has two dance projects coming up this fall, one with New York City Ballet and the other with Works &amp; Process at the Guggenheim. 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