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WHY I TOUR | ===WHY I TOUR=== | ||
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• pour permettre des engagements éducatifs et une ouverture, pour apprendre, comprendre, voir d'autres danses et d'autres artistes, d'autres horizons. | • pour permettre des engagements éducatifs et une ouverture, pour apprendre, comprendre, voir d'autres danses et d'autres artistes, d'autres horizons. | ||
I am provided the chance to educate other artists and vice versa by conversing and exchanging my creativity to them, through performances, master classes, choreographic workshops or simply dialogue or discourse after a show to the general public or students. | |||
4. To expand and diversify my reach of audiences. | 4. To expand and diversify my reach of audiences. | ||
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TOURING (the traveling art) | ===TOURING (the traveling art)=== | ||
The scope of touring is immense from the first risk taking initiatives to fully enjoying the experience and journey of the traveling work. The multitude of work with touring, from visioning, planning, negotiating, financing and traveling can have its complexities and is certainly not meant for everyone; It is an ongoing development and process. | The scope of touring is immense from the first risk taking initiatives to fully enjoying the experience and journey of the traveling work. The multitude of work with touring, from visioning, planning, negotiating, financing and traveling can have its complexities and is certainly not meant for everyone; It is an ongoing development and process. | ||
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What can tour? | =What can tour?= | ||
I suppose pretty much anything, but within the arts for sure are: (Performances, contemporary-traditional, music, dance, theater, spoken words, new media/technology, visual arts, etc.. ) | I suppose pretty much anything, but within the arts for sure are: (Performances, contemporary-traditional, music, dance, theater, spoken words, new media/technology, visual arts, etc.. ) | ||
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• 7a*11d (international of Performance Art) | • 7a*11d (international of Performance Art) | ||
===HOW DO YOU START A TOUR?=== | |||
HOW DO YOU START A TOUR? | |||
Important online information. | Important online information. | ||
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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. | 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. | ||
Planning: | =Planning:= | ||
Starting from who you may contact within your home-base/region to present your work to, figuring out and expanding your networks and connections at to national and international level and leading intuitive and inquisitive research into following and understanding their elemental ways of presenting and partnering to Festivals, marketing/showcase events or specific venues. | Starting from who you may contact within your home-base/region to present your work to, figuring out and expanding your networks and connections at to national and international level and leading intuitive and inquisitive research into following and understanding their elemental ways of presenting and partnering to Festivals, marketing/showcase events or specific venues. | ||
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You may deal with one engagement (1 show) or more (with outreach activities) in a touring engagement. | You may deal with one engagement (1 show) or more (with outreach activities) in a touring engagement. | ||
Access to Public or private Funding: | =Access to Public or private Funding:= | ||
Could involve | Could involve | ||
- ( Grants, from municipal, provincial and national or Embassies, fundraising and sponsorships) | - ( Grants, from municipal, provincial and national or Embassies, fundraising and sponsorships) | ||
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Perhaps the tour you wish to undertake is partly a marketing tool an investment to your work and your organization to promote the work or understanding a specific region or community for future touring. | Perhaps the tour you wish to undertake is partly a marketing tool an investment to your work and your organization to promote the work or understanding a specific region or community for future touring. | ||
=Understanding Venues= | |||
A piece of work can be presented in established venues to small, medium and big houses that have technical facilities and technical crew. | A piece of work can be presented in established venues to small, medium and big houses that have technical facilities and technical crew. | ||
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Providing and hiring proper touring technical directors or crew that can pre-plan and understand a touring venue to go to is highly recommended. It can achieve the requirements and needs of the creative work, to attain and meet a stress free engagement and to let the work breathe properly to the state and stage that it ought to be. | Providing and hiring proper touring technical directors or crew that can pre-plan and understand a touring venue to go to is highly recommended. It can achieve the requirements and needs of the creative work, to attain and meet a stress free engagement and to let the work breathe properly to the state and stage that it ought to be. | ||
Who are your audience? | =Who are your audience?= | ||
Start by assessing this at home, your main audiences, then scope elsewhere within your closest region, national and international and then other diverse audiences that may not have seen your work in the past. | Start by assessing this at home, your main audiences, then scope elsewhere within your closest region, national and international and then other diverse audiences that may not have seen your work in the past. | ||