Archive for September 16th, 2014

Noted Endeavors with LPR: Engage Your Audiences with Social Media

Tuesday, September 16th, 2014

Eugenia Zukerman and Emily Ondracek-Peterson of Noted Endeavors interview David Handler and Justin Kantor, co-founders of Le Poisson Rouge.

Noted EndeavorsLe Poisson Rouge is a music venue and multimedia art cabaret in New York City founded in 2008 by David Handler and Justin Kantor on the former site of The Village Gate. Handler and Kantor, both graduates of Manhattan School of Music, founded LPR to foster the fusion of popular and arts cultures in music, film, theater, dance, and fine art. Their stated mission is “to revive the symbiotic relationship between art and revelry; to establish a creative asylum for both artists and audiences.”

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Dance as a Luxury Product: the Post 9/11 Environment

Tuesday, September 16th, 2014

By Rachel Straus

The Slovak National Dance Congress 2014 recently asked me to speak about the state of New York City dance. Since I’ve been living in New York City on and off since 1979, I decided to take up the challenge. In the following slides (which have been converted into a movie), I tease out the changes that have occurred for New York City concert dancers following 9/11 and then more recently in the wake of the financial crisis. What I found most striking (and dismaying) in my research was that the U.S. capital of Terpsichore is increasingly recognizing dancers and dance organizations not as artists and arts groups—the obvious—but as brands for luxury consumption. Because this project was made for a European audience, the monetary valuation is in Euros. Note: The embedded movie requires you to use the pause and play icons in order to read the full text. To see the work, click below.

 

NYC Dance as Luxury Product

 

 

 

 

 

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