Editing Perspectives on Touring (section)

=Touring Perspective=

-Vision and your work,
-Planning
-Resources and Support, 
-Venues,
-Audience, integration and outreach.



Vision and your work, starting point:

Having a vision, the desire and need that your work can and should tour.
Start by asking the question why I want to tour and its importance to me or my organization, the relevance of the work to tour to a specific event, venue, region, and what would be the starting point? 

What piece of work that you really feel could or should be share to others, by its contents and relevance.

Perhaps the work you want to tour is the most successful work that you have, or the work suits a certain festival or specific event, perhaps a presenter has seen your work during a performance at home in your region and you are invited in their venues, theater and even to a seasonal programming spot.

Or that you may also simply adore a city that you wish to visit and get to know and by sharing your creative work is the best way to immerse to that community.

At times, the simplest step may be submitting or sending videos or samples, a proposal of your work for viewing to producers and curators.

Or simply invite a producer to see your show live, as presenters at times prefer to see the actual full content of a performance piece.

As well, in some cases for more established artists and organizations, a touring agent that deals specifically to marketing one’s work, working with an agent’s pursuit of local contacts and understanding how one’s work could serve a specific region. An agent could post an interest to your work, or you may hire him to develop a touring working relationship and establishment of a touring mechanism for one’s body of work or for the whole company.