Dancers in high places

We need to cultivate our 'expat' dance artists into a network of powerful voices to advocate for the form.

It is such a shame that we lose these people once they decide that dance is not the long term career they may have dreamed of. This may happen early (in their teens) or later (after graduation, several years into a career) but for some reason the connection with the form is often lost.

So how do we change this?

Alumni.

We need to create a powerful dance Alumni. We can model it on the university system. A group of people who, because of their past contact with dance (the parameters should be very broad) are invited to join the contemporary dance alumni. The 'club' would give access to shows, events, artists, workshops etc that feed the passion for the form. The pay off would be a group of passionate advocates who operate outside the dance community. Placing contemporary dance within the context of the broader community.