Dance Across the City Day is #1!!!!

The folks at Boston.com clearly know a good thing when they see it. They have listed Dance Across the City Day as #1 on the ExploreNewEngland.com list of The Top Ten Things To Do in New England This Weekend. Well if that's the best they can do for us...

Among the newly inked Dance Across the City Day activities that I may not have told you about yet are those of Boston Dance Alliance taking place in The Wang Theatre's Metropolitan Room off the lower lobby. This Saturday's Dance Alliance activities are geared toward the professional or aspiring professional and in the past has covered topics such as video production and press release writing. Things get rolling with a chance to meet newly appointed Boston Dance Alliance Executive Director Ruth Birnberg and wind up with a panel on audience development with a technology twist. Both events are free just like the rest of DATCD.

Full disclosure/shameless self-promotion: I am on the Boston Dance Alliance panel listed below, as you can plainly read (and if you show up you will plainly hear). Here is a sneak peek at the DATCD program listing:

"9-9:55 am
Meet Boston Dance Alliance's New and First Executive
Director
Ruth Birnberg

Start your "Dance Across the City Day" sharing a cup of coffee with Executive
Director Ruth Birnberg. BDA offers
many services that are useful to the dance enthusiast; the parent looking for
classes for his/her child, the dance student, professional dancer, and artistic
directors.

10-11 am
Audience Development
Seeking new ways to fill your
theatre? Panel of three experts will help
Moderated by John Michael Kennedy,
Public Relations Expert

Do you keep sending direct mail pieces to the same lists and sending Email
blasts but still cannot fill those seats? Come and listen to three panelists,
with wide expertise, talk about new ways to reach audiences, including the use
of blogs, advertising in unexpected spots, ticketing services that make it easy
for the ticket buyer and more. The panel includes John Beck from ArtsBoston,
Rita Fucillo from Jerome Press and Playbill, and Jack Wright from Celebrity
Series. All three are looking forward to answering your questions about specific
projects."

Funny, I don't feel like an expert. Though sometimes I do feel wide.

A schedule of the other Dance Across the City Day classes and showcases can be found here.

And by the way, I welcome any and all comments, compliments, redirections, digressions, etc. regarding, well anything, but especially DATCD. Let me know what you're thinking and if it isn't profane I'll probably post it.