Performing Arts in (a world in) Transition

Performing Arts in (a world in) Transition presents a complex of activities to reinforce the sector’s capacity to face current challenges for the arts in general and for the contemporary performing arts in particular: the decrease in public funding, the competition for audience attention, the need to convince society and politicians of benefits brought by arts and artists. Besides the project emphasizes IETM’s importance as a leverage to the mobility of artists and art works, cross-border collaborations and knowledge exchange, both in and outside Europe. A special program line is dedicated to the strengthenings of the human resources in the sector: IETMCampus – a summer school for young cultural managers – and the staff-exchange program.The three program lines meant to make the sector more resilient – sustainable Models, measurable Impact and live arts in Digital times – are intertwined, each tackling the challenges from another perspective. In the Models-programme, PAT researchs, develops and tests new business and management models that better fit the current economic and political climate and still support the sector’s specific values. In the Impact-programme the need for new indicators of success (and arguments for support) is considered as a common issue both for funders and arts professionals. So both will collaborate in PAT, defining indicators, developing and testing monitoring systems. Live arts in Digital times is focussing on challenges and opportunities of the digital shift for creation, management and dissemination of artistic projects. All three program lines stimulate and train the self-assessment of arts organisations and contribute to their audience development strategies with tools and skills. Four publications (toolkits/handbooks) will support the process, of which the results will be monitored by a test group of 6 -10 arts organisations, starting in the third year of PAT.