Greetings from sunny Los Angeles! I'm here for Dance/USA's 2008 Winter Forum, which has drawn people from a fantastic range of dance companies all over the country. I spent today in a couple of rigorous and satisfying workshops on technology, audience development and organizational growth, and am now relaxing in my hotel room and preparing for a similarly long day tomorrow. I'm meeting administrators and executive directors from contemporary companies and large ballet institutions, multimedia designers and presenting organizations, and am finding I have remarkably common experience with people as far apart as New York and San Francisco. I'll be back in Philly Sunday night.
At mid-season, and with a little distance between me and the office, it's nice to sit and think a little about what we're doing. Winterfest was lovely as always, and I thought the company performance was an especially tight, unified program this year. It was good to be able to revisit Lamentations in a more intimate venue. We would love it if folks who saw both this performance at the CEC, and the premiere last spring at the Arts Bank, could give us any feedback as to how it came across differently this time--was it better to be closer? Or did you prefer the bigger stage with more distance?
Winterfest feels like a lot more than a month ago, somehow. I go into tech for Spiel Uhr sooner than I'd like to think, and as soon as I get back to the office it will be time to dig into what everybody is working on so I can have some preparation for the design and running of the program. We're also kicking around some ideas for the Spring Finale that excite me a lot, about which I'm not sure how much I can say right now because nothing is really decided yet--some of Manfred's ideas are more site-specific in the vein of Sonic Dances, and some are staged more traditionally, but suffice it to say that I'm happily preparing myself for the possibility that I might have to stretch our technical resources a little more than we're used to.
Stay tuned; there will be more soon.
Matt
At mid-season, and with a little distance between me and the office, it's nice to sit and think a little about what we're doing. Winterfest was lovely as always, and I thought the company performance was an especially tight, unified program this year. It was good to be able to revisit Lamentations in a more intimate venue. We would love it if folks who saw both this performance at the CEC, and the premiere last spring at the Arts Bank, could give us any feedback as to how it came across differently this time--was it better to be closer? Or did you prefer the bigger stage with more distance?
Winterfest feels like a lot more than a month ago, somehow. I go into tech for Spiel Uhr sooner than I'd like to think, and as soon as I get back to the office it will be time to dig into what everybody is working on so I can have some preparation for the design and running of the program. We're also kicking around some ideas for the Spring Finale that excite me a lot, about which I'm not sure how much I can say right now because nothing is really decided yet--some of Manfred's ideas are more site-specific in the vein of Sonic Dances, and some are staged more traditionally, but suffice it to say that I'm happily preparing myself for the possibility that I might have to stretch our technical resources a little more than we're used to.
Stay tuned; there will be more soon.
Matt
posted by Matt Sharp at 1/18/2008 11:46:00 PM
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