I’ve sent the following, under various guises and permutations, to: http://www.mch.govt.nz; http://www.fuel4arts.com; http://www.thebigidea.co.nz; http://www.nzlive.com.
WHO’S DOING WHAT WHEN WHERE HOW TO WHOM IN THE PERFORMING ARTS AND ARE THEY GETTING PAID FOR IT?
I’m soliciting for information, on the fly (immediate and informal) to provide a snapshot of what’s going on out in the general field of New Zealand theatre, a Snapshot Of Real Theatre On the Fly (SORT OF, the acronym). I say New Zealand but input, links, comments and suggestions from elsewhere are welcome.
Based in Auckland, I’ve recently been accepted for PACE on the pretext of a proposal to establish a small, mobile theatre group – called T-Cell – with an honed theoretical edge. Hence, I’m signed up for an UB at WINZ: you can read of my travails at http://www.squarewhiteworld.com
PACE suggested I do a bit of research in the field – through which those Pathways to Artistic & Cultural Employment, of their acronym, are said to cut.
I’m interested in your narratives as theatre people. There follow some deliberately loose questions around which I encourage you to improvise:
Who?
Where do you situate your activity in the broad field of the performing arts (or theatre practice, or simply arts practice)? (Where concretely, place, area; and notionally, interest, e.g. educational, psychodramatic, & c.)
What?
What are you doing right now?
When and where?
Are you in production, performance, touring, in house? For what period?
How often do you do what you’re doing right now?
How?
How do you operate, in terms of organisational model?
How long have you been working in this field? and how long employed?
Do you employ? How many?
To whom:
Do you have a recognisable audience? Where? Who are they?
Anything you can tell me that you consider may be of use – like are you getting paid for it and where does the money come from? – would also clearly be greatly appreciated. I look forward to your contribution.
