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Invitation to join the DCA conference planning committee for the next conference
Colleagues: To facilitate the association’s next national conference we will be hosting an open call for critics and scholars to discuss potential foci and partnerships. In years past, our organization has partnered with exceptional institutions, including the Balanchine Trust, Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, and others, and commissioned papers and keynotes, that have helped …
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The Waning Impact of Dance Critics by Robert Bettmann
The impact of today’s critics is waning. Not only are there fewer critics able to make a living as critics, but those able to stay in the field are wrestling with diversifying job duties (blog posting, social media, videos, etc) and declining impact. For more than a century, the skilled eyes and pens of arts journalists …
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The Spring/Summer 2016 DCA News has been posted in the members only section
Please go to the members section, http://www.dancecritics.org/login.html , to download the new Spring/Summer issue of the DCA News. The issue has reflections on dance critic Edwin Denby, responses to the attacks in Paris and elsewhere, and more.
About the DCA
The Dance Critics Association was created in 1973, when a group of dance critics attending a Philadelphia arts conference saw a need for an organization that represented working dance critics. The groups primary focus, then and now, was an annual meeting to serve dance writers. DCA was formally established in 1974, also the year of its first convention.
Now, the association has nearly three hundred members – both freelance and full-time – who write for newspapers, magazines and websites across the US, as well as in Europe and Asia. DCA continues to host a yearly conference in the late spring or early summer where critics, editors, writers, scholars, dancers and choreographers convene to discuss issues that impact the world of dance in general, and the art form of dance criticism in particular.