Poor Dancer's Almanac: Managing Life & Work in the Performing Arts

by Lise Friedman

Book Overview

Combining how-to information with voices of working artists, Poor Dancer's Almanac is an essential resource tool and source of inspiration for all independent artists--choreographers, performance artists, dancers producers, managers. Created in 1975 and revised again in 1984 this handbook has come to serve as one of the most crucial references for the arts community. In the most up-to-date and comprehensive edition yet, a broad range of issues affecting...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822313197
• ISBN13: 9780822313199
• Release Date: May 1993
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 380 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

A very good resource for dancers

This book should be required reading for aspiring dancers, particularly those who lack the administrative know-how to manage money, funding, etcetera. It teaches you everything they neglected to tell you in dance class. Makes a great gift!