Welcome to the brand new SeattleDances!

Our new design is about prioritizing usability for the Seattle dance group, together with audiences, producers, and artists. Learn extra in regards to the assets now we have to supply beneath:

All-City Dance Calendar:

Dance is broadly underrepresented on the calendars of legacy media sources, and relying on social media alone makes dance susceptible to profit-driven algorithms and is inaccessible to audiences who aren’t already followers of a selected artist. Our dance calendar options an easy-to-use type to create an occasion itemizing that pops up on engines like google. The hyperlink may even be shared with audiences to create a centralized place for present info. Upcoming reveals now checklist proper on our homepage, so it’s straightforward to see what’s occurring this weekend. A view of the entire month (or the following month! Or the one after that!) is accessible on the “Calendar” web page. Artists and producers can submit their efficiency occasions to the calendar proper on the positioning, no login required, without spending a dime.

Call-board:

We are so excited to revive our call-board function, now additionally that includes an easy-to-use submission type, proper on the positioning. The call-board is designed to be a spot for intracommunity communication, divided into 4 sections: Auditions/Dance jobs, Grants (together with purposes for area and efficiency alternatives), Classes (for masterclasses and group lessons), and Studios/Dance Organizations. It is a software of connection—to assist college students discover lessons, to assist choreographers discover dancers, to assist dancers discover funding, and extra!

Archive:

We imagine that dance writing performs a elementary function in recording and framing this ephemeral artwork type and SeattleDances has been masking Seattle dance since 2009. Our catalogue of articles has at all times been out there on the positioning, however now it’s straightforward to browse or search by way of our “Archives” web page. Read about earlier work from an artist you want by looking their identify. Or browse our Interview part to search out some new artists you would possibly wish to observe. Research the historical past and lineage of native dance areas, or possibly discover out the choreographer of that one piece you really liked from a decade in the past. A useful resource for scholarship or anybody curious!

Journalism:

The journalistic mission of the positioning continues, though it’s taken a again seat to getting our new web site up and operating. Between 2011 and 2020, SeattleDances maintained a workers of 7-12 common writers contributing articles and trying to cowl each doable present. Much of this effort and time was volunteered. When the pandemic struck and in addition our Editor had a child (hello, Kaitlin right here!) operations needed to scale approach, approach again. It has since grow to be clear that administration was burnt out and drained making an attempt to cowl all of it, and that this purpose is unsustainable in the long run. For the time being, SeattleDances plans to cowl dance information and choose reveals, focusing totally on unbiased and native reveals that won’t garner the eye of mainstream press. We have additionally began a brand new collection of artist Spotlight Q&A articles the place you possibly can study space artists in their very own phrases. Read our first one on Zara Martina Lopez right here! And be happy to hit “Subscribe” up high if you’d like each new article delivered straight to your inbox.

Huge due to Heather Larson at Day is New Creative for serving to us construct the web site of our goals, and to our donors who made an expert, customized replace of the web site a risk. We have appreciated the continued help all through these previous couple of years of decreased operations.