Founder and Artistic Director of Forklift Danceworks Allison Orr talks about the community-based dance company and its many collaborations. Forklift creates community-based dance performances with workers that show their skilled movements and tell the often unheard stories of the people whose jobs sustain our daily lives. The workers collaborate with the artistic … [Read more...] about Art at the Intersection: Work as Dance!
Revisiting the First U.S. Statistical Report about the Arts
With the start of each new year, it’s salutary not only to make new plans but also to practice humility and take encouragement from what has gone before. Those of us who aggregate and analyze quantitative data about the arts can embark on 2023 with the knowledge that, 90 years earlier, the first major statistical product of this thrillingly complex enterprise was delivered to … [Read more...] about Revisiting the First U.S. Statistical Report about the Arts
Signature Theatre’s Artistic Director Matthew Gardiner talks about making musical theater magic in No VA.
In this podcast, Matthew Gardiner talks about directing Stephen Sondheim’s "Into the Woods," the emotional draw of musical theater, and Stephen Sondheim’s mastery of it. We discuss Signature's commitment to musical theater and its development through its many programs, the theater's long association with Stephen Sondheim, what goes into staging an iconic musical like "Into the … [Read more...] about Signature Theatre’s Artistic Director Matthew Gardiner talks about making musical theater magic in No VA.
Meet prize-winning YA author and educator Renée Watson
In this 2019 interview, author and educator Renée Watson talks about her prize-winning YA title, Piecing Me Together and Watch Us Rise (co-written with poet Ellen Hagan). Both look at the lived experiences of black girls as they grapple with identity right at the intersection of race, class and gender. But Watson is a story-teller not a sociologist and, as … [Read more...] about Meet prize-winning YA author and educator Renée Watson
Feasting on Arts Participation Survey Data—But First, Some Appetizers
Next year, the National Endowment for the Arts will offer a comprehensive view of how Americans experienced art forms in the second year of the pandemic, and how those patterns have shifted since pre-COVID times. This reporting will draw from two datasets to be released in 2023: the 2022 Survey of Public Participation in the Arts (SPPA) and the 2022 General Social Survey’s … [Read more...] about Feasting on Arts Participation Survey Data—But First, Some Appetizers