25 Oct
2012
25 Oct
'12
11:17 a.m.
So, Dave, are you saying that you take out a different dollar amount each dance for all of
these categories based on what comes in the door on a given night?
If so, I'm having a mind-blowing accounting experience here. Does anyone else do this
sort of thing?
We take out a flat amount each dance for dance organization expenses (which just about
covers all annual expenses for insurance, promo, supplies, etc), the actual amounts for
hall-sound-stipends-guarantees, then divvy the rest up between performers (80%) and series
kitty (20%). Kitty is our safety net in case attendance income fails to cover our
expenses on a given night.
Chrissy Fowler
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Ok, here's how our dance calculates performer and hall pay.
Hall is 30%, Performers: 53%, Sound 9.5%, which leaves 7.5% for our dance
organization. Out of that 7.5%, we pay all of our other expenses (ASCAP
fees, an extra 25 cents per person that goes out to the organization that
runs the hall, insurance). We also have a performer minimum of, I believe,
$125 each, and a sound tech maximum, but I don't know what that max is.
The hall has a minimum take as well, but we never have low enough
attendance to trigger that.