The arts and cultural sector in Ghana are of significant public importance and have witnessed tremendous growth in the past. However, the general consumption pattern of the arts and culture has been transformed in recent years in Ghana. In this study, I analyze cultural policy support for a...

The objective of our research is to investigate new digital techniques and tools, offering the audience innovative, attractive, enhanced and accessible experiences. The project focuses on performing arts, particularly theatre, aiming at designing, implementing, experimenting and evaluating...

Insufficiency of disposable income has long been one of the core problems faced by China’s nation-owned non-profit performing arts organizations. This paper employs random-effect model to examine the determinants that affect private donations to the organizations by using a 31-province level...

The objective of this paper is to empirically investigate the determinants of African-American (A-A) participation as audience members in the performing arts, e.g., orchestras. Specifically, the focus is on understanding the reasons for lower participation rates of A-A’s relative to Whites. In...

We conduct a field study at a performing arts theatre offering pay-what-you-want (PWYW) pricing as one of several pricing options to purchase tickets. While offering PWYW in this setting introduces multiple layers of self-selection, we find PWYW attendees are not a homogeneous group....

The major challenge facing performing arts in general and classical dance theatres in particular is about inducing and protecting 'creative aesthetic expression'. In this paper it is argued, that a classical dance theatre of the 21st century will be able to sustain itself in the long run, only...