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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.
The Dance Critics Association (DCA) announces a Fiscal Sponsorship member benefit made possible by a new partnership between The Field and DCA
The Dance Critics Association (DCA) announces a Fiscal Sponsorship member benefit made possible by a new partnership between The Field and DCA The Field is partnering with the Dance Critics Association (DCA) to offer fiscal sponsorship to DCA members. As part of this partnership, DCA and The Field have created a joint DCA-Field membership option. …
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.