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Marketing Classical Arts in a Modern World
The time of the Ad Men is over Remember the good old days of marketing? When a catchy phrase and a few colors were all you needed? When dancing popcorn and soda would convince you that you did, in...
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6 Skills Young Arts Managers Need to Have
The great and powerful…arts manager! More and more students have started to contact me, asking if I have time to talk to them about arts management. Some are even arts or dance management majors. I...
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Eighth Position: Dancers as Fundraising Tools?
There’s a new position for dancers. It isn’t fifth. I recently spoke at the Beyond Ballet: Why and How conference hosted by ArtEZ located in Arnhem, The Netherlands. Several interesting topics came up...
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Yes, Dancers Should Be Fundraising Tools
At Oklahoma City Ballet, thinking of professional as well as artistic “development.” In my last article, I wrote about the need for dancers to act as fundraising tools so the modern business model of...
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What’s Missing From Ballet Training? This.
Some people may argue, but I believe that ballet is more physically demanding today than it ever was. The expectations of dancers today are so great, both in terms of ability and versatility. Men in...
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Eating Disorders in the Dance World
Gelsey Kirkland Eating disorders in the dance world are the opposite of a secret: they’re considered a cliche. Eating disorders in the field are also still a very real and serious issue. Public...
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America’s Benevolent Prejudice of Misty Copeland
A screen capture from Misty Copeland’s new commercial for Under Armour. Misty Copeland is the most famous working dancer today. Due to the Internet and social media, some may argue that she is, or...
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Labor Regulations to Hurt Nonprofit Arts?
Not a lot of time for new overtime regulations. This June, the Department of Labor proposed revisions to the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), which oversees “minimum wage, overtime pay, recordkeeping,...
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Google and Facebook Are Changing Arts Advertising, Right?
While social media marketing and advertising have been all the craze for several years, Google and Facebook have really taken the lead in the last year in terms of paid ads on their platforms. It used...
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Philanthropy and Politics: The David H. Koch Story
Two months ago, David H. Koch resigned from the board of New York’s American Museum of Natural History, having served as a trustee for 23 years. We can speak at a later date about term limits for board...
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How Regulating Animal Charities Could Hurt the Dance World
I know that I typically write about the arts, but this issue could be so detrimental to the nonprofit industry as a whole that I felt compelled to discuss it. A new bill has passed in the Oklahoma...
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Arts in a Down Economy: An Oklahoma Case Study
I do not think it will come to a surprise to anyone that the arts are affected in a down economy. It is how they are affected that is important to understand, and why supporting them through this time...
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Arts Marketing: Facebook Killed the Video Star
I suppose all things must come to an end. While video may have killed the radio star, it is clear now that Facebook killed the video star, or, more importantly, how viewers watch videos. What does it...
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Maria Tallchief to “Perfect Crime”: An Interview with Gary Busey
Recently I had the pleasure of interviewing Gary Busey — regarding the arts in general but, maybe more importantly, his professional stage debut in Perfect Crime, the long-running (since 1987)...
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