Dance professionals – don’t miss this special opportunity to learn about audience building from dance colleagues from around the country! Audience Architects presents “Get Savvy About Audience Engagement,” a half-day seminar featuring presentations by and in-depth conversations with various organizations – including a presenter, dance company, and university program – offering attendees first hand knowledge about these recent projects supported by Dance/USA’s Engaging Dance Audiences (EDA) program.
Come explore these forward-thinking practices and learn how EDA projects can be adapted to your organization! Program includes a networking breakfast, panel discussion, dynamic presentations, and a speed dating session with the panelists.
EDA Panelists:
CFA’s DanceLink Fellowship paired students with contemporary dance companies for summer internships to increase their desired skill set and act as dance ambassadors to the Wesleyan student body. Fellowship awardees also designed and executed an evening of performance and audience engagement experiences within the framework of CFA’s Dine/Dance/Discover program and post-show discussions.
Surinder Martignetti, Project Consultant, Audience Architects
Dance: A Moving Canvas offered attendees, particularly those who are new to dance, opportunities to deepen their understanding of choreography and enjoy the beauty of dance. This program provided audiences with guided methods to dive into dance in a festive, informal atmosphere, connecting visual art with dance performance in new and fresh ways. Each Moving Canvas event gave audience members the opportunity to ask questions, play with and change a choreographic work within a gallery setting.
Suzanne Callahan, Founder Callahan Consulting for the Arts
Moderated by Krista Bradley, Executive Director, BlackRock Center for the Arts.
Engaging Dance Audiences is administered by Dance/USA and made possible with generous funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation.