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Dear Contact Quarterly Community,
I write to you as an avid advocate for Contact Quarterly. My connection to this organization goes back a long way. I remember coming across the magazine in a bookstore in New Haven, Connecticut, when I was an emerging choreographer/dancer in the late '70s, hungry for every connection I could find in the world of dance. I was intrigued by the personal first-person stories and inspired by the long lists of people and opportunities in the back of the magazine—so many people to connect to one day and possibly dance with across different continents. Throughout the years I have continued to enjoy these same things—personal connection and a sense of a wide global community—through a magazine and organization that offers us staying power in an ever-evolving dance landscape. Contact Quarterly's ability to both endure and change with the times is exemplary—but it does not happen in a vacuum. In order for the organization to stay afloat, it needs our help. These are complicated times in the world of dance. We face dwindling resources; unpredictable public interest for live, body-based, experimental work; and the demise of many small organizations that have supported our work and communities in the past. Digital technologies have brought us new resources to play with and additional communities to meet in virtual space, but they also present tremendous challenges in maintaining our sense of real connection. We need organizations like Contact Quarterly to help keep us in touch—both virtually and physically. CQ has been there for us, and we need to be there for it. Please consider giving generously to Contact Quarterly this year. CQ needs your help to continue its good work and successfully transition into additional virtual areas while maintaining and developing its print offerings. Help CQ help us stay connected.
Sincerely, |
From our directors and staff: We're in year two of our expanded formats in print and online—the Print Journal, Chapbook, Dance Directory & Ad Supplement, and CI Newsletters & Webtexts, plus CQ web-exclusive articles. Have a look! We're adjusting to our new formats and are excited by their potential. Meanwhile, we're still committed to the print medium and won't stop making things you can hold in your hands. Lastly, our full Back-Issue Table of Contents index is up and searchable. Dive into 35 years of buried treasure with a click. Enjoy, and many thanks for your support! ...and thanks from all of us at CQ:
Directors
Advisory Board
CQ Staff
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Mike Baker and Fiona Gillespie, Coriolis Dance
Company, in Sublind—their multimedia installation dance performance—Nelson, New Zealand, 2002.
From CQ 28:2, S/F 2003. Video still: Patrick Schroeder
