During the pandemic, many dancers have lost not only their jobs, but also their health coverage. COVID's devastation of the arts has disproportionately affected women. The Grammy Awards were full of dancing, much of it great. Yale's Emily Coates joins to discuss how dance academia has dealt with this pandemic year.
Show Notes
A transcript of this episode is available here: https://thedanceedit.com/transcript-episode-55
Links referenced in/relevant to episode 55:
-Final Bow for Yellowface donations page: https://www.yellowface.org/donate
-New York Times piece on the health insurance crisis for performers: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/09/arts/coronavirus-actors.html
-Dance Data Project®'s blog on COVID's effect on women in the arts: https://blog.americansforthearts.org/2021/03/11/connecting-the-dots-why-the-shecession-is-an-arts-story
-Attach your name to the FAMILY act here: https://delauro.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/delauro-gillibrand-introduce-family-act-urge-congress-pass-permanent
-"Transpositions" project: https://schwarzman.yale.edu/series/transpositions-dance-poems-online-world
-Yale Dance Lab website: https://yaledancelab.yale.edu/
-Yale Schwarzman Center website: https://schwarzman.yale.edu/
-Schwarzman Center social pages:
https://www.instagram.com/yale_schwarzman/
https://twitter.com/Yale_Schwarzman
https://www.facebook.com/yaleschwarzmancenter
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A weekly podcast, hosted by editors from Dance Media, that breaks down the dance world's news and talks with with the artists who are shaping the headlines.