Spring 2022 Team Update
Here is an update from our Founder and President Liza Yntema: On a chorus of very happy notes…. I am absolutely delighted to announce that Rebecca “Becky” Ferrell has joined […]
Entries by dancedata
April 15, 2022
Bobbi Jene Smith for Paris Opera Ballet, Suzanne Haug for Eugene Ballet – Program: Petrushka, Azure Barton for Ballet Am Rhein – Program: I Am A Problem, Michèle Anne de Mey & Hélène Blackburn for Ballet Am Rhein, Vail Dance Festival Choreography and Commissions Lineup, Pam Tanowitz for New York City Ballet – Program: Visionary Voices […]
April 8, 2022
Paul Taylor Dance Company Announces The 2022 Taylor Company Commission Recipients, Stina Quagebeur for English National Ballet – Program: Ek/ Forsythe / Quagebeur, Stina Quagebeur for Northern Ballet – Program: Three Short Ballets 2022, Crystal Pite World Premiere for The Royal Ballet, Pam Tanowitz for the Royal Ballet: Everyone Keeps Me / New Pam Tanowitz, Annabelle Lopez Ochoa for Pacific Northwest Ballet – Program: Worlds to Come […]
DDP ANNOUNCES 2021 U.S. DANCE FESTIVALS REPORT
Dance Data Project® today announces the third annual report of dance festival leadership and programming. DDP’s 17th report since February 2019, the 2021 US Dance Festivals Report examines gender equity in dance festival performance programming and leadership, finding that female-led festivals program, on average, 49% works choreographed by women, while male-led festivals program only 38% works choreographed by women. Festivals run by women are simply more equitable.
Festivals present an opportunity for new choreographic works to be tested and presented. The most prized and prestigious commissions are world premieres. Of the 2021 festivals examined, DDP finds that 36% of world premieres were choreographed by women, compared to 47% choreographed by men, with the remainder created by gender expansive choreographers or by co-choreographers of different genders.
