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When I read your post I thought about being accepted to arts festivals, but then figured that you get through not by performing but by writing good proposals – which doesn’t necessarily mean anything stage-wise.

To be honest, this was my first thought when I heard you were a performance artist: go for grants. If you are able to convince a foundation to give you a fellowship, then you’re doing something attention-catching.

How would you apply this to entrepreneurship?

Money. How many people are you getting to pay for what you offer. A nice and simple metric for judging your business.

I’m an emerging performance artist and I have managed to go quite beyond what I was expecting largely on the “apply for anything even if it’s a low chance you’ll get in” model. However, unlike Chris, there isn’t an industry thing per se that I fit. I come from a burlesque background but my work is very alternative and political, which isn’t as well supported here as I would like (most of my peers are overseas).

When I read your post I thought about being accepted to arts festivals, but then figured that you get through not by performing but by writing good proposals – which doesn’t necessarily mean anything stage-wise. Also there are still issues of privilege, subtle discrimination, etc (which as a minority performer I am privy to).

Any ideas along those lines when you pretty much have to set up your own scene, your own metrics of quality, because there’s no space for you otherwise?