The Wall Street Journal arts reporter Pia Catton who writes the Culture City Online blog just wrote about the project DIP did with Battery Dance Company telling their cultural relations story through transmedia storytelling in an article called, "Maps for Artistic Cheapskates, Jetsetters." Rita J. King blogged about it earlier on this blog in her post, "Battery Dance Company: A Global Movement".
Here's an excerpt from Pia's article:
Gathering information has been a global affair for Battery Dance Company artistic director Jonathan Hollander, who has taken his dancers around the world for performances and workshops in support of cultural exchange.
To help other arts institutions that want to do the same, he has created the Battery Dance Company Cultural Diplomacy Toolkit with the design help of Dancing Ink Productions and funding from the Robert Sterling Clark Foundation.
“We sense that there are people who want to do work like this,” said Hollander. “We’ve always been community-spirited rather than proprietary.”
In his international work, Hollander has taken his TriBeCa-based company to Swaziland, Mongolia, Taiwan and a great many points in between. The information he shares ranges from advice on dealing with the U.S. State Department to making programming choices in specific locations.
[The Wall Street Journal: Culture City Online: Maps for Artistic Cheapskates, Jetsetters]
Also see:
[The Imagination Age: Battery Dance Company: A Global Movement]
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