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Find your creative spark: LoveArts - dating for arts lovers

Published Thursday 13 October 2011 at 12:49 by Jennifer Reischel

From enjoying theatre to visiting galleries, whatever your interest in the arts, The Stage’s new dating website, LoveArts.com helps you connect with like-minded culture lovers

Does Sondheim dominate your music collection? Do you frequent the Tate more than your local pub? Or maybe you are an avid book club member and a secret Oscar Wilde fanatic?

If this sounds like you, come and enter : a new, revolutionary dating service. LoveArts.com is perfectly tailored to all arts enthusiasts, including both professionals and those who are recreationally devoted to it.

“Cheeky DSM seeks fellow thespian to share daily brunches with”

“Recent MT grad searching for her panto prince”

“Aspiring writer looking for a Shakespeare-filled loved life”

“Lawyer by day, swing dancer by night seeks his Ginger Rogers”

Presented by The Stage, this new website offers a meeting ground for individuals of all orientations with a passion for performing, visual and literary arts, who are seeking friendship or romance.

Find a true connection with a similarly-minded culture lover. Meet someone who shares your common interests - the fundamental basis of a lasting relationship. Look forward to dates that just naturally fall into place. Shared moments at the National Theatre discussing the recent Pinter production. Two for one tickets at the National Portrait Gallery as you reflect afterwards over lunch. Or find a Kindle-friend who shares their virtual wish list with you and exchanges literary recommendations.

Relationships are wonderful, loving, intoxicating and sometimes challenging, even for the best of matches. Why not target those who naturally click with your key characteristics?

Dating websites are a popular and now widespread way of meeting new potential relationship partners. However, they have never been particularly geared towards the artistic dater. With specialist sites for doctors, lawyers, recycling-obsessed daters and single parents, the time is now more than ripe for the arts industry to claim a dedicated virtual dating space of its own.

With LoveArts.com creating a profile, uploading up to ten photos and browsing all members is free of charge. The site also uses a two-way matching technology to recommend those to each other with complementary interests, values and desires. Mirroring many of the top successful dating sites in the country, LoveArts.com functions in a safe, secure and private method with no member details being shared. You can create profile tag lines, find out your top 100 matches and let other members know you are interested by adding them to your favourites.

As a launch gift, LoveArts.com is offering a completely free one-month subscription to the first 500 subscribers. This includes enjoying the full, usually subscribers-only features, such as setting up a private, invitation only photo gallery, emailing other members using the safe and private site messaging service, and receiving up to 1,000 matches. The number of profiles can sometimes be overwhelming. Hence, the Notes and Ratings section was created which allows you to add notes about other members and/or rate them according to your preference.

Additionally, the website offers unique arts-related features. Joining professional headings such as Finance and Teaching, the occupation drop down box for LoveArts.com includes arts-related jobs such as agent, casting, producer, designer, wardrobe/make-up and choreographer. The Relationships and Children section offers a theatre-going companion tick box option and under More About Me you can complete a field detailing your favourite types of performances. It is these particular details which make LoveArts.com stand out and that can be of handy assistance in your search for romance.

Whether you fancy finding a date for the next press night or a dance partner to spend the rest of your life with - LoveArts.com is a one of a kind, exclusive dating experience aimed at all arts lovers.

“What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.”
— Pearl Bailey