Choreographers Make Their Own Kind of Administrative Dance

Client: NCCAkron

Outlet: The New York Times

Today’s dance makers are far more likely to operate on a project-to-project basis because of limited resources, the desire for creative flexibility, or both. That means they’re often their own administrators — spreadsheets are very much a part of their everyday life. But the dance field’s business “best practices” are decades old. And though there are a variety of grants and residencies to bolster choreographers’ creative endeavors, for a long time, there was little support for the less-glamorous work of dance administration.