Dancing for young audiences : a practical guide to creating, managing and marketing a performance company / Ella H. Magruder ; foreword by Lynnette Y. Overby.

• pt. I. Dreaming and creating -- 1. Defining your goals -- 2. Choreography that appeals to children (is choreography that appeals to everyone) -- pt. II. Producing -- 3. Production : putting the show together -- 4. Marketing : don't sell yourself short -- 5. Publicity -- 6. Finance -- 7. Booking -- pt. III. Dancing -- 8. Touring : basic equipment, checklist and travel -- 9. In the school and theater : check-in, set-up and safety -- 10. Good liaisons make good residencies -- 11. Teachers who help, teachers who hinder -- 12. Arranging and seating audiences -- 13. Your performing voice -- 14. Performing for an audience : numbers, cautions and facts -- 15. Audience participation -- 16. Don't be a "drop-in, drop-out" company : master classes, workshops and how to handle them -- 17. Assessment and the structure of evaluation : questions to ask yourself and your audience and why -- pt. IV. Dancing their dreams : ten successful national and international dance companies, and interviews with their artistic directors/choreographers -- 18. Dr. Schaffer and Mr. Stern : two guys who dance about math -- 19. Plankenkoorts : a "Dutch Treat" trio from the Low Country -- 20. Frequent Flyers Productions : soaring through thee air, Rocky Mountain style -- 21. Flatfoot Dance Company in KwaZulu-Natal : outreach in South Africa -- 22. Peanut Butter and Jelly Dance Company : a sticky Boston quartet named for food -- 23. Jasmine Pasch & Phew!!! Arts : London's visionary and her company of art collaborators -- 24. Kinnect Dance Company : a university troupe in Utah -- 25. CoMotion Dance Project : in motion in Montana -- 26. Kaleidoscope : Seattle's rainbow of dancing children -- 27. Dance Imagination : creative kids in Canada -- pt. V. Epilogue == 28. "Dancing with the Lettuce Leaf" : things that can happen while touring, with suggestions and advice -- Appendix A. More successful companies -- Appendix B. More dance performing groups : children, professionals and schools -- Appendix C. Websites, resources and publications for dance companies, dancers and dance education.

• "The book's touring and production information can be applied to almost any performing group that uses the medium of dance to deliver its message--from professional dance companies and organizations to university, high school, studio dance performers"--Provided by publisher. 

Ämnesord

Dance companies  -- Marketing. (LCSH)

Dance companies  -- Management. (LCSH)

Dance companies  -- Economic aspects. (LCSH)

Dance companies  -- Marketing. (fast)

Dance companies  -- Marketing. (cct)

Dance companies  -- Management. (cct)

Dance companies  -- Ecoonomic aspects. (cct)

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GV1785.8 (LCC)

792.8 (DDC)

J791.4 (clc)

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