A.O. Pro(+ductions) » Meet the (A.O.) Pros

You're an emerging artist. If you want to emerge you need show cards, a website, high-quality video, email newsletters, good graphic design, smart fundraising strategies, something eye-catching, something different, something honest, constant pr, inspired branding, web presence, videography, audience engagement, an interesting blog, facebook events, advertising, press, donor cultivation, flawless events, press kits, contracts, thatnk you letters, reviews, quarterly presenter updates, 300dpi photos, an epk, live webcasts, tech riders, press releases, grant applications, a brilliant artist statement, on-point materials, viral marketing, a superhuman ability to do three million things at once and to focus on your art.

Affordable work for emerging artists. Low-cost and barter-system freelance for artists who want to focus on their art.

Welcome to A.O. PRO(+ductions)

We’re glad you found us, and we can’t wait to help!

In early 2009, I started work on a new company model for my dance company, the A.O. Movement Collective. This model was comprised of three parts: artistic, business, and community-focused. A.O. PRO(+ductions) is the business-third of the model, and focuses on providing artists with affordable freelance arts management, consulting, and design work.

Explore the site, check out what we offer, and then drop us a line! We’d love to hear what you’re working on and where you’d like to go! For more information on the other two parts of the A.O. Family, check out our community hub the Urgent Artist Blog, and the A.O. Movement Collective website, and for more info about PRO, just click the link to the right.

Hope to hear from you soon!
Sarah A.O.

Video, Management, Consulting, Print + Web Design, Fundraising

Sarah A.O. Rosner is the founder of A.O.³ (the A.O. Entity), a three-part platform uniting the A.O. Movement Collective, freelancing collective A.O. PRO(+ductions), and the Urgent Artist blog. A.O.³ represents a new model for downtown dancemaking by holistically supporting all involved – artists, audience, funders, and critics.

A native of D.C. and alumna of Sarah Lawrence College, Sarah A.O. founded the A.O. Movement Collective in 2006, and has been at their helm creating Anti-Ephemeral PoMo Humanist discourse and works ever since, presenting work at the RAW festival, THROW, Open Perform, WAXworks, Green Space, AUNTS, Dance Place (DC), the LaGuardia Performing Arts, Joyce SoHo, and La MaMa Etc.

In 2008, Rosner founded the blog and community hub Urgent Artist as a means for facilitating open source exchange between artists about their art, theory, business, and lives. Since its founding, UA has grown to house a shifting team of freelance writers and reviewers, engaging a weekly readership of over 200 individuals spanning six continents and 57 countries.

In 2009 Rosner founded A.O. PRO(+ductions), a freelancing collective dedicated working with emerging artists to create innovative business and sustainable practices, and currently freelances in design, media, and consulting for a wide range of clients including Faye Drsicoll, Anneke Hansen, and Cori Olinghouse.

Outside of A.O.³, Rosner has performed with Ashley Byler and Enrico Wey, and was recently one of the researchers on Danspace Platform’s The Adventure, curated by Trajal Harrell. She currently works at New York Live Arts as the Manager of Member Engagement, and has served as a panelist for Dance Theater Workshop’s Fresh Tracks auditions. the Field’s ERPA NxGn Project and Debates, and DanceNYC’s Mid-Season Symposium. She is dedicated to using radical questioning and innovative business approaches to move the dance world towards sustainability, and she loves to yell about art.

Design and Content by Sarah A.O. Rosner. Implementation by Emily Sharp. © 2009-2012.
Works appear courtesy of their respective artists.
This has been an A.O. Pro(+duction).