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The New Aesthetics of Dance & Technology in Taiwan
This year’s Japan Society’s Dance Showcase (January 11 & 12) features a diverse and compelling line-up including Taipei-based choreographer Chieh-hua Hsieh and his company Anarchy Dance Theatre....
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Good Circulation: Grassroots Exchange Connecting Communities of Practice
SQUART with LauraArrington& Everyone Else (photo by Robbie Sweeny) The festival. The art binge. An international crossroads of culture mafia mobilizing in time and place. At conclusion, the...
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3 Questions on the Economy
A.L. STEINER 1. Bifo: “the depth of the catastrophe represented by the collapse is awakening hidden potencies of the social brain.” Can we feel good about the crisis, as an alarm clock, sparking...
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This Is America, Now (A Frame for APAP)
Dear European Friends in town for Under The Radar, Coil and American Realness, (& audiences who don’t live in our little contemporary performing arts world all the time) may I have your...
View ArticleTo Alastair, from Ben
Below is a lightly edited-for-the-web version of an open letter curator & producer Ben Pryor wrote to Alastair Macaulay in response to an email exchange Q&A about the American Realness...
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Malloy’s Manifesto or Silent Dave Speaks His Mind
After Culturebot’s Long Table discussion at Under The Radar, “The Theater of Tomorrow, Today“, Dave Malloy followed up with an email to us that turned into a manifesto that we thought was great. We...
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Words Of Advice to Young People
A few weeks ago I was invited to speak (via Skype) to the Theatre Criticism class at Royal Holloway, University of London. It was a lot of fun, they were great kids and asked fantastic questions. A...
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THE POLITICS OF CULTURAL PRODUCTION IN THEATER (OR, DEVISE THIS!), Part III
[This is Part III of III. Part I is available here. If you’ve been following Culturebot, you may be asking what happened to Part II? The answer is I skipped it for now. Coming out of our discussions...
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Whites Only (or, WTF is the deal with diversity in the performing arts?)
Apparently there’s been some kind of heated conversation going on in the punditsphere about diversity in the arts. A post on ArtsJournal by Doug Borwick called “Considering Whiteness” seems to be...
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Thinking Digitally: How The Social Web Is Changing Arts, Culture, Politics &...
Data Visualization graphic from The Minnesota Evaluation Studies Institute (MESI) When I posted my “Year End Orphans” article in December 2012, one of the questions I asked was, “Does the rise of a...
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The Citizen Artist & The Settlement House
Play Tank in action at University Settlement In his recent Huffington Post article entitled, The Past and the Future of the Citizen Artist, Nick Rabkin justly credits settlement houses as the original...
View ArticleIf I Were A Rich Man
If you’ve followed Culturebot for any period of time you know that I’m not shy about my Jewish identity, though like most American Jews my relationship to established religion is fraught, to say the...
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Questioning The Innovation Agenda
Questioning The Innovation Agenda is the first of a series of six essays taking a critical look at innovation culture, its assumptions, influences and impact. PREFACE From the 2006 launch of The James...
View ArticleThe Appearance of Innovation
The Appearance of Innovation is the second in a series of six essays taking a critical look at innovation culture, its assumptions, influences and impact. In the first essay of this series we asked the...
View ArticleCorporate Influence and the Innovation Agenda
Corporate Influence and the Innovation Agenda is the third in a series of six essays taking a critical look at innovation culture, its assumptions, influences and impact. It is certainly not new...
View ArticleSeeing Value In The Arts
Seeing Value In the Arts is the fourth in a series of six essays taking a critical look at innovation culture, its assumptions, influences and impact. If one of the fundamental flaws of the Innovation...
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Business As Usual In The Innovation Industry
Business As Usual In The Innovation Industry is the fifth in a series of six essays taking a critical look at innovation culture, its assumptions, influences and impact. BEGINNING TO SEE THE LIGHT In...
View ArticleInvention, Innovation & Creating Real Change
Invention, Innovation & Creating Real Change is the last in a series of six essays taking a critical look at innovation culture, its assumptions, influences and impact. Some of the ideas proposed...
View ArticleCollective Insourcing and ArtsPool
Collective Insourcing: A Systemic Approach to Nonprofit Arts Management was written by Guy Yarden and Sarah Maxfield in 2011 as a concept paper proposing an approach to arts administration that...
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In Conversation With David White
David White. (Photo by Peter Simon) Kyoung H. Park, The Brooklyn Commune’s Cultural Democracy and Representation team coordinator, interviewed David White, Artistic and Executive Director of the Yard,...
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