A draft for a community agreement for teams who are starting to work together on a new project. It is useful to take some time at the beginning of the process...
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#project-iniciator
To start a project is a possibility of everyone: choreographers, dancers, producers, composers, visual artists and so on. The responsibilities and decisions specific to this role are not attached to an artistic discipline but to the process of bringing an idea into reality. It is also a practice and has much more in common with other professional areas outside the artistic field, although we, as artists, like to think otherwise. It has to do with the capacity to envision a process and to implement it, to know how to continue and who to ask for help. It has also to do with management and communication skills. It is common that the administrative and artistic responsibility of a project cannot be separated, wo how to deal with this?
As a project initiator…
… what am I responsible of?
… what am I not responsible of?
… what can I delegate? How?
… how can I create clarity for the process?
… with whom do I want to work? Why?
… do I know what the other participants need?
… what do I need?
… what do I have? What am I missing?
… what type of internal organization do I want for the process?
… how do I prepare for the process?
Shadow Notes
Notes and suggestions to minimize the scenarios of emergency and work that is easily forgotten in the rush of the process. Includes notes for the following...
b.creative
International Connection Base
A community of around 2500 creative entrepreneurs, incubators, hubs, networks and associations throughout the world, representing 22 cultural and creative fields in 116 countries.
IETM
International Connection Base
International network for contemporary performing arts is one of the oldest and largest international cultural networks, representing the voice of over 500 performing arts organisations and individual professionals working in the contemporary performing arts worldwide.
INTHEGA
National Connection Base
A recognized professional association of theaters in Germany without their own ensemble, they connect organizers and ensembles. Not for newcommers. The ensembles need to have at least 5 performers. It has a database for spaces, guest productions, etc.
Kanzlei Laaser
National Connection Base
The lawyer Sonia Laaser and her law office are rockstars in matters of contracts, KSK, GEMA, taxes, and the whole legal world that surround our artistic work. She provides compact information about several topics on her website, and in case needed, personal consultation. Her fees are on the website.
NRW Landesbüro Tanz
Local + Regional Connection Base
A MUST! They are a regional organization, but their office is in Cologne, so you can go visit them.
A contact point for the professional dance scene in NRW. It initiates projects, cooperations and discourses in the field of professional contemporary dance and supports the work of dance professionals in NRW, offering collegial advice and organizing formats for exchange and qualification. They have a regional calender where you can publish your upcoming events.
Extra Tip: They send an reminder per e-mail to send your up-coming dates to be published on their printed and online Tanzkalender free of charge. Contact the team from PR to receive this reminders.
On-The-Move
Access to news and information about cultural mobility, the section for performing arts.
Working Conditions
A list of questions to make sure you have thought about and communicated important aspects of the working conditions before starting a project. Includes questions about: Time, Space, Payment, Creative Process, Collaboration with spaces