Essay on Rhizomatic Arts in The Dancer-Citizen

Written By Allison Wyper
The business structure of Rhizomatic Arts. http://rhizomaticarts.com

The business structure of Rhizomatic Arts. http://rhizomaticarts.com

I wrote an essay about starting my company, Rhizomatic Arts, for the first issue of The Dancer-Citizen, a new peer-reviewed online scholarly journal exploring the work of socially engaged dance artists. I discuss how and why I started my own business to reconcile the disparate aspects of my professional practice, and how our programming is supporting exchange, collaboration, and artist sustainability.

This first issue of The Dancer-Citizen claims "a space for conversation arising from our unique knowledge as dancer/scholars: what do we know about citizenship, belonging and mutual obligation, and how are we using, building on, investigating and challenging this knowledge? How are we working, what are our disparate views and methods, and in what forms are we expressing, embodying, and reporting? What connections are we making, or could we make, with each other and other disciplines?"

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Allison Wyper
I am an interdisciplinary artist with over a decade of experience providing administrative, marketing, and production support for artists and creative professionals nationwide. I founded Rhizomatic Arts to provide affordable professional consulting, training, and services to independent creatives and small companies. Rhizomatic Arts takes a holistic approach to creative sustainability, supporting the cultural eco-system on a grassroots, person-to-person level, empowering artists to take charge of their own careers within a supportive network of peers. Our Sustainability Network connects creatives with skills and resources to share, via a mutually-supportive gift economy. Our motto: "work independently, not alone."
http://rhizomaticarts.com
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