In the fall of 2020, SDC + SDCF published On the Edge: The Lives and Livelihoods of Stage Directors and Choreographers, A Next Stage Report. Next Stage set out to ...
When I came to SDC some 15 years ago, I knew very little about choreography. I had done what many do. I took childhood dance classes with recitals in the ...
Anniversaries provide opportunities for celebration. We pause to partake of the ritual of well-deserved congratulations, parties, toasts. Anniversaries can also provide opportunities for reflection, assessment, and consideration of the future. ...
Amid all that we do, that we can find time to consider the larger questions is impressive; it is even more impressive that we can do this together and that ...
Now is a moment of disruption—disruption across the field. An extended, painful disruption that I think we all hope has positioned us for change. As a path to reopening develops, ...
Fall 1997, well past midnight: I was sitting with my fellow members of the Theater panel in the National Endowment for the Arts offices at the Old Post Office on ...
Hazard and hope. Meeting with hazard and hope. This is how Aaron Frankel remembered the “smoke-filled rooms” Margaret Webster wrote of when considering how the Union would take hold. As ...
By the time this issue hits your mailbox, Network for Cultural and Arts Policy (NCAP) will be well into analyzing the data received from you for a research project undertaken ...
Someday, I may go back and see how many of these letters I have written while flying across the country. I am always inspired following an intensive visit with Members ...
We are on the eve of the 60th anniversary of SDC. I just imagined this issue of SDC Journal sitting on desks, on nightstands, and in pockets of airline seats. ...