Here are a few posts from last week's Greenpage that might be worth your time...
Black Theater IS Black History
New York Theater: Ossie Davis, the author and star of “Purlie Victorious” in 1961; Leslie Odom Jr, the star of the play’s revival in 2024. Rose McClendon, who made her Broadway debut in 1926; Audra McDonald, who made her Broadway debut in 1991 and has won more Tony Awards than any other performer in history.
Artists of American Ballet Theatre and AGMA Leadership Overwhelmingly Approve Strike Authorization
American Guild of Musical Artists: On the evening of February 6, AGMA leadership and the Dancers and Stage Managers of American Ballet Theatre voted overwhelmingly to authorize a strike. The Artists voted 95.6% in favor of authorizing the strike. This pivotal move follows an arduous eight-month period of negotiations that has unfortunately not resulted in a fair contract. During this time, AGMA Artists at ABT have been diligently working under an expired contract since September.
The 1/52 Project: Funding Designers for the Future
AMERICAN THEATRE: Less than one percent of the designs on Broadway during the 2021-22 and 2022-23 seasons were created by Latinx designers, despite people of that ethnicity representing 19 percent of the U.S. population, according to data compiled by the 1/52 Project, a grant program that seeks to redress this kind of disparity. While women designers and folks of other ethnicities saw slightly higher representation rates than their Latinx counterparts, white male designers were still credited with nearly three-quarters of the designs crafted over those two seasons.
New Technology Helps Artists Safeguard Their Work Against AI
mymodernmet.com: With the rise of AI, there's been an increasing need for artists to protect their work from the datasets used to train the technology. And with the leak of a list of 16,000 artists used to train Midjourney, there's been an outcry by artists for ways to safeguard their art. Until recently, the most popular method has been to “poison” images so they ruin the dataset.
Is Dance Poised for a Union Boom?
Dance Magazine: Lots of dancers are union members—that isn’t new. Many of the country’s largest dance companies are unionized with the American Guild of Musical Artists (AGMA), and dancers who work on Broadway are members of the Actors’ Equity Association. The Radio City Rockettes, Cirque du Soleil performers, and dancers at Disney and Universal theme parks are members of the American Guild of Variety Artists, and many other commercial dancers are members of the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA).
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