Ashley Ferro-Murray’s conviction that “no one knows better than artists what they need,” based on her own personal experience as a working artist, guides her approach to her role as program director for the arts at the Doris Duke Foundation. In addition to placing trust in dancers and choreographers, the multi-pronged approach Ferro-Murray has developed […]

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 […]

More than 100 National Endowment for the Arts grants to dance organizations remain in limbo this week after President Trump’s administration said it would conduct a review of previously allocated federal aid. Last Wednesday, the administration rescinded a controversial memo that froze all grant funding, and judges have already ruled in favor of states that […]

The funding freeze that President Trump instituted earlier this week has had ripple effects in the dance community. Choreographer Jody Sperling, whose company Jody Sperling/Time Lapse Dance often engages creatively with the issue of climate change, was told that the troupe had lost a major State Department grant—just before leaving for the tour that grant […]