Ballet considers social media guidelines

New York City Ballet wants to develop social media guidelines for all its artistic and administrative employees.

The Wall Street Journal reports that the company is negotiating a social media policy as part of contract negotiations with the dancer’s union, the American Guild of Musical Artists. NYCB executive director Katherine Brown said in a statement the company is considering the policy.

If enacted, it’d be one of the first by a major performing arts company. Union national executive director, Alan Gordon, told the Journal the union doesn’t object as long as the policy doesn’t over-police the dancers.

According to a draft of the policy obtained by the Journal, dancers would be banned from disclosing another dancer’s injury or illness and be required to specify their comments aren’t company sanctioned.