Dancing for Young Audiences: A Practical Guide to Creating, Managing and Marketing a Performance Company

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