It's interesting, because myself and my board chair talk about this all the time. I come from the commercial sector as well as the not-for-profit.
I think definitely there would be a change of the ecology. There are successful profit-oriented arts organizations, Cirque du Soleil being a perfect example of that. The ecology as we know it now would be different. The big institutions, as we know them now, would be very different.
Would it die totally? The American model is out there. All of us are going after philanthropic and commercial corporate money. We're looking for earned revenue and new sources. We've done film as well. Moulin Rouge has gone around the world as a Cineplex project. We'd all have to find different ways of exploiting and disseminating dance, but I think the ecology would break down very quickly and I think there would be few survivors.