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Tag: audiences

Please help me avoid “preaching to the choir”

Blog•by Chris Grady•Posted September 6, 2021•2 Comment(s)

I’m a 63 year old, white, male, middle class, bi, theatrically British and relatively well connected, Guardian headline reading, Radio 4 listening, champion of new work and new producers.  I know people who are younger than me, queerer than me,…

Tags: audiences, creative producing, marketing
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The Audience role in Performance

Blog•by Chris Grady•Posted October 4, 2015•5 Comment(s)

This week I have been exploring the world of definitions in the arts, and the expectations we have when we choose one way of looking at an artform or particular aspect of the arts from another. I work in theatre…

Tags: audiences, live art, performance art
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Dance Audiences – everyone prepared to be surprised

Blog•by Chris Grady•Posted July 6, 2015•0 Comment(s)

Any medium scale regional theatre programmer with an interest in finding a local audience for modern dance would have been green with envy if they had joined me and hundreds of others to see new pieces by Ghislaine Doté, Alesandra…

Tags: audiences, dance, festivals, Jabberwocky, marketing, theatre
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