2020 Dance Festival Gender Equity Report

Dance Data Project® ‘s 2020 Dance Festival Gender Equity Report examines the gender distribution of programming and leadership among 2020 festivals and includes a comparative analysis of 2019 and 2020 findings. Some key findings include:

• Women choreographed 48% of world premieres commissioned by the festivals that were held in 2020 and sampled by DDP.
• There were a total of 48 top leaders listed by the 37 festivals that listed a leader, and 65% of them were women in 2020. 57% of festivals had exclusively-female leaders in 2020.
• The mean Equity Score for the 10 festivals examined by DDP that programmed works in both 2019 and 2020 was 0.33 (33% of works were choreographed by women). The median Equity Score was 0.27.