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[MJ]

Eland,
I hate to disagree, but DTH needs an executive director who can balance the books and keep the company going financially. Mr. Mitchell is a great AD, I'm sure it is near impossible to run everything (artistic, logistic, and financial).
An AD needs to allow the board and executive management to run their side of the company. Likewise the CEO/board needs to allow the AD to make all artistic decisions.


Fundraisers and sponsorships will be key to DTHs revival, CEOs and wealthy grahnde dahmes like to sip champagne and brag about how they "saved DTH."
Let them brag, as long as their checks don't bounce.
Alas, the dahmes will rarely venture north of 96th street, so DTH needs to perfrom/fundraise as often as possible in midtown or downtown. So sad but true.

How do you do fundraisers without comapny dancers? Will they return?


-Mike

[MJ]

I just read the DTH school closed last week. Studios lost their insurance. All hope may be lost.

So very sad.

Mike

[eland]

This  is  to Mike,
   I don't think I  said  anything  about  DTH  having  a  fundraiser...
    I believe I  had  asked  about   where  the  dancers  were  going to  go  and  then  I  commented  on how  a  company like  DTH  needed  a  good  general director  who  could  not  only pull the  company  out  of  its  current hole, but  who  was  also  familiar with the  artistic  side  of  things  and  whom  Arthur Mitchell felt  he  could  trust.
    From what  I am reading, it  all boils  down to  him and he  doesn't  seem  to  want  to  let just  anyone  make  decisions.
     There  has   to  be  someone  with  the  know  how  to  run  a  company  like  that  and  keep  mitchells  dream  flourishing...
      Of  course you can't  have  a  fundraiser  without  dancers  ...unless they  believe  enough in the  cause  to  just  volunteer....But  I  don't  remember that  being  part of  my earlier question..Maybe  it  was  somewhere  else...