Entries by dancedata
Dance Data Project®’s New Sexual Assault Prevention Resources Featured in LA Dance Chronicle
17 May 2021 By Nancy Dobbs Owen The dance world is undergoing a reckoning and one of the voices leading the way is President & Founder of Dance Data Project® […]
Broadway World: Pacific Northwest Ballet Announces 2021-22 Season
Notes from DDP: This is how to move forward post pandemic, with interesting new work and both existing commissions and world premieres from women choreographers. Congrats to Hubbard Street Dance […]
Dance Data Project® Announces 2021 “Largest 50 Report” on U.S. Ballet Companies
Dance Data Project® today announced today released Part 1 of its annual “Largest 50” analysis of United States ballet companies. DDP has also greatly expanded its research scope, surveying a total of 126 U.S. ballet companies,* an increase of 70% from 74 companies surveyed in 2020.
Broadway World: Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre Unveils Its 2021-2022 Season
DDP is pleased to see Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre‘s new season announcement, which includes an all-women choreographic evening. DDP Founder & President Liza Yntema is proud to support Azsure Barton‘s work. […]
Dance Data Project® Releases Resources Aimed at Highlighting Best Practices for Keeping Dancers Safe from Sexual Assault and Harassment
Dance Data Project® today announced the release of two tools that provide ballet and dance schools, as well as students, parents, and instructors with specific measures to help students and professional dancers to recognize and prevent sexual harassed or physical abuse: the first is a checklist of safety measures; the second is a one-stop resource detailing the reporting around and work being done in the US and globally to address sexual abuse and harassment in the dance and allied performance fields, sports and youth-oriented not for profits. In addition, DDP released a “DDP Talks To”… interview with Emma Lister and Zoë Ashe-Brown, who, alongside Lister’s Makeshift Company and MOVERS SHAKERS MAKERS podcast, conducted a wide ranging survey in September 2020 on mental health in ballet.
