The Artist's Compass
The Complete Guide to Building a Life and a Living in the Performing Arts
Published on 15. June 2017
Book
Paperback/Softback
224 pages
978-1-5011-2664-2 (ISBN)
Description
An inspiring, real world guide for artists that shows how to build a successful, stable career in the performing arts, from the President and CEO of The Music Center in Los Angeles.
While performing artists have many educational opportunities to perfect their craft, they are often on their own when it comes to learning the business skills necessary to launch their careers. In The Artist's Compass, Rachel Moore shares how to make life as a performer more successful, secure, and sustainable by approaching a career in the arts like an entrepreneur. She teaches aspiring performers how to take charge of their own careers and how to create their own brand and marketing platform to achieve personal and professional success.
Moore combines her artistic and corporate experience to address the finer points of building a career in a challenging industry. The Artist's Compass is the essential success guide for aspiring artists, driving home the point that honing professional skills beyond the stage is not forsaking one's art, but for the sake of one's art.
While performing artists have many educational opportunities to perfect their craft, they are often on their own when it comes to learning the business skills necessary to launch their careers. In The Artist's Compass, Rachel Moore shares how to make life as a performer more successful, secure, and sustainable by approaching a career in the arts like an entrepreneur. She teaches aspiring performers how to take charge of their own careers and how to create their own brand and marketing platform to achieve personal and professional success.
Moore combines her artistic and corporate experience to address the finer points of building a career in a challenging industry. The Artist's Compass is the essential success guide for aspiring artists, driving home the point that honing professional skills beyond the stage is not forsaking one's art, but for the sake of one's art.
Reviews / Votes
"[P]recise and realistic but also passionate, and it will give readers the sense of a much-needed guiding hand. Moore is qualified to become a mentor to a whole new generation of artists, and they will benefit greatly from her advice." -- Publishers Weekly "Sound advice and a complete road map to planning an artistic career." -- Library Journal "Rachel S. Moore, the president and CEO of the Los Angeles Music Center and former CEO of the American Ballet Theatre, is a great example of a woman who used the skills that we gain as dancers to become a leader." -- Misty Copeland, principal dancer with the American Ballet Theatre and author of Life in Motion: An Unlikely Ballerina "Moore's advice is steeped in her professional experience as an arts administrator and enlivened by her experience as a professional ballet dancer. With a genuine passion and desire to help other artists, she outlines her keys to success for a sustainable career. . . . A hopeful and optimistic treatise that will surely be required reading for performing arts students." -- Kirkus ReviewsMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 211 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
227 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-5011-2664-2 (9781501126642)
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Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions
Rachel Moore
The Artist's Compass
The Complete Guide to Building a Life and a Living in the Performing Arts
E-Book
05/2016
1st Edition
Touchstone Books;Atria Books
€13.84
Available for download
Person
Rachel S. Moore was named President and CEO of The Music Center in Los Angeles in 2015. A former member of American Ballet Theatre's corps de ballet, Moore was named Executive Director of ABT in April 2004 and CEO in 2012. Prior to her appointment, she served as Director of Boston Ballet's Center for Dance Education, Executive Director of Project STEP, and Managing Director of Ballet Theatre of Boston. She has also held senior positions with Americans for the Arts and the National Cultural Alliance, both in Washington, DC. As a teenager, she spent summers in New York City and trained on scholarship at the School of American Ballet and American Ballet Theatre School, before becoming a professional ballet dancer. She currently lives in Pasadena, California with her husband, two Labradors, and four cats of suspect provenance. The Artist's Compass is her first book.