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You know, this company is for people who have a real passion for it. “Equally important,” adds Logan, “keeping our dancers engaged and keeping everyone connected. “It’s just about connecting with our community, because that’s normally what we have to do with our performances,” says Joy Bollinger, artistic director of Bruce Wood dancing. favorite.ĭBDT dancers, for example, invite the company’s Instagram followers to participate in the company’s dance class on Tuesday, and on Wednesdays, they share exercises and stretches to relieve the body stress of working from home. Meanwhile, the three companies virtually run corporate classes, and their dancers – which the three companies have continued to pay for – use Facebook and Instagram to stay in touch with the public, sharing their workouts, recipes, and books and games. TBT and Bruce Wood, as well as Dallas Black Dance Theater, have applied vigorously to government grants and loans, such as PPP. Texas Ballet Theater and Bruce Wood dancing, a Dallas-based contemporary dance company, streamed previously recorded performances. Many have launched relief funds on their websites, asked customers to donate tickets to canceled shows, and turned to businesses and donors. lucrative Dallas who started the Emergency Arts Fund in response to the pandemic.ĭance companies also had to get creative quickly as their sources of income practically evaporated. TITAS therefore turned to federal funding and private dollars, submitting claims to the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), the Economic Injury Disaster Loan (EIDL) and The Arts Community Alliance (TACA), a non-profit organization. Second, the presenters do not have the copyright in any of the works they are presenting, so they cannot broadcast anything on their website to raise funds. First of all, Santos explains, broadcasters don’t perform original works, rather they bring companies to Dallas to perform their own works.

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“And it’s just at a full stop.”Īs a dance presenter, TITAS stayed dry. “It’s a very successful economic engine,” Santos told me in March. All of this, in turn, generates tax revenue for the city. Charles Santos, the executive and artistic director of TITAS, a nonprofit dance presenter, explains that arts organizations are a fraction of the “creative economy,” which creates thousands of jobs onstage, behind the scenes and in kitchens, dining rooms and halls. Above all, she adds, because of the partnership, “social distancing is not really possible for dancers.”Īlong with social distancing measures, the closure of Dallas theaters and the ban on gatherings have shook the spines of dance companies.

“Sweating is a problem,” says Vanessa Logan, executive director of the Texas Ballet Theater. So when the coronavirus – which spreads via respiratory droplets and close contact – entered the scene, dance performances disappeared from the table. It is a practice that pushes boundaries and hinders personal space. I recognized its Spartan characteristics: exhausting, rigid, physical, flexible, selfless. As a pianist and competitive climber, I recognized the duality of dance, fully artistic, but fully sporty. ‘This Old Dog’ may have featured a great deal of variety in comparison with its predecessors, but with patience DeMarco can surely craft a more distinct chapter in his musical career.Growing up with a sister who danced six times a week, I called her passion “spart”, a portmanteau word for sport and art. While DeMarco can now positively create music on his own terms, he still needs time before he goes rushing into his next release. Indeed, DeMarco’s fourth album, slated for a 2019 release, will be the first on his own record label, appropriately titled ‘Mac’s Record Label’.

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Thankfully, with the release of 2017’s ‘This Old Dog’ DeMarco was finally free of his contract.

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While it is true that most artists make the majority of their revenue from the live experience, you have to question whether Mac derives the same amount of pleasure from touring that he did six years ago.Įven during his time off the road, DeMarco experienced pressure from his label Captured Tracks to press on and make the next record. When greeted with the announcement several commenters simply stated ‘well, that’s where the money is’. However, the man seems to have no such plans as he yesterday announced a whole string of some thirty American tour dates. After the Tropicalia debacle, many hoped Mac would vanish for a while to relax and recuperate, for the sake of his health, as well as his touring career.