POOR DANCER’S ALMANAC Managing Life and Work in the Performing Arts Editors: David R.White, Lise Friedman, and Tia Tibbitts Levinson Softcover, per-copy cost $21.95 plus $12.00 shipping and handling. Combining how-to information with voices of working artists, Poor Dancer's Almanac is an essential resource tool and source of inspiration for all independent artists-choreographers, performance artists, dancers, producers, and managers. Created in 1974 and revised again, this handbook has come to serve as one of the most crucial references for the arts community. In the most up-to-date and comprehensive edition yet, a broad range of issues affecting the performers and producers is addressed, interwoven with newly added, more personal contributions from major figures in the performance world. Poor Dancer's Almanac provides information on a number of different topics for dancers, choreographers, and building arts-management personnel (often all one and the same person) as they try to scrape a living and retain some sanity and creative integrity in this most financially insecure of art forms. More than sixty contributors hold forth on such matters as concert promotion and production, financial management, government funding, physical and mental health, and community relations. “Dry? you ask. Not at all. The advice given and the stories shared are written by artists, producers, managers, doctors, and the writers who have struggled daily with survival and success in the dance world... Poor Dancer's Almanac is about the fundamental struggle to balance personal survival and creative challenge...” – Barbara Dickinson, Duke Magazine