Booking and Tour Management for the Performing Arts

Booking and Tour Management for the Performing Arts
Author: Rena Shagan
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 296
Release: 2001-07-01
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1621531546

This third edition of Booking and Tour Management for the Performing Arts has been updated to include information about the revolutionary new ways that performers, managers, and presenters are using the Internet to transform the business of booking live performing events. Special chapters by outside experts provide in-depth information about what presenters need from artists, the technical aspects of touring, the unique demands of touring abroad, and touring through the eyes of the artist. The book includes a Tour Manager's Resource Kit and numerous other ready-to-use sample materials, including a contract, letter of agreement, technical information questionnaire, performance checklists, calendars, schedules, tour budget model, technical glossary, and much more.

Poor Dancer's Almanac

Poor Dancer's Almanac
Author: David R. White
Publisher: Duke University Press
Total Pages: 384
Release: 1993
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 9780822313199

Combines how-to information with voices of working artist. An essential resource tool for choreographers, performance artists, dancers, producers and managers. Offers in-depth discussions from personal livelihood to professional career development, from medical care, housing and unemployment insurance to management, touring and legal issues.