If you are a performing artist, I’ll bet that, like me, you feel beaten up, beaten down, slammed against many walls. You are likely searching for hope, but feeling that any kind of sustainable life in the arts is a faraway fantasy, only possible during better times. And weren’t these supposed to be the “better […]

It was 5:45 pm on Friday, May 2, when Megan Kiskaddon, executive director of Seattle’s On the Boards, learned that the grant for that night’s performance had been rescinded. The show, Miguel Gutierrez’s Super Nothing, had opened just the night before—the same day Dance Magazine debuted Gutierrez’s cover. But the National Endowment for the Arts […]