Performance as a means of showing one’s art presents some types of legal issues that do not arise with other methods.
A model contract for dancers.
New York Foundation for the Arts [www.nyfa.org]
Dancers Forum/The Dancers Forum Compact: For a Working Artistic Relationship between Dancers and Choreographers
Guidelines regarding performances within a gallery space when undertaken without the gallery owner’s permission.
ArtBusiness.com [www.artbusiness.com]
Alan Bamberger/When an Artist Acts Without a Gallery’s Consent
A discussion of features of performance that may explain why live performances tend to be more problematic legally than artwork in other forms, descriptions of incidents in the last decade involving legal challenges to performance, and some recommendations regarding policies for performances.
National Coalition against Censorship [www.ncac.org]
National Coalition against Censorship/Theater and Performance