November 14, 2005

Dwindling Coverage of Dance in Newspapers

There are a number of recent blog posts and articles that address the topic of shrinking coverage of dance and the arts in local newspapers.

Below I include links and brief summaries of these pieces. In my next post, I'll share my thoughts:

- In NYC Dance Journal, Shannon Jowett writes that The Village Voice will soon be cutting back its dance coverage. He encourages dance fans to contact the paper to encourage continued coverage of the New York Dance Scene.

- Rachel Feinerman in Downtown Dancer, also referring to the pending Village Voice cut-back of dance coverage, believes that it may not be worth fighting for such limited dance coverage in the first place and its best to look toward weblogs and the Internet to increase coverage of dance.

- In Rachel's second post about the need for more dance space, she highlights and agrees with comment by Gail of Let Go of Your Butt blog that the online world is an ideal medium for dance criticism given its ability to share video clips and foster dialogue.

- In the Wall Street Journal, Terry Teachout has a piece, "You, Too, Can Be a Critic," that discusses the declining coverage of the arts in newspapers, which is being replaced, in part, by an increasing number of art critics who are now sharing their perspectives through weblogs. Terry believes that a new category of practitioner-bloggers (critics who are also practicing artists themselves) will have a positive effect for arts journalism. (You can also read Terry's blog About Last Night).

- And Rachel Howard in a review of Bebe Miller's "Landing/Place" at the end of October points out that her local newspaper, the Chronicle, did not feature an article about this performance. Rachel encourages her readers to write to the paper to encourage more coverage of dance.

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