2022 Dance Venue Leadership & Programming Report

Dance Data Project®’s latest Dance Venue Leadership & Programming Report examines 73 leading ballet/classically inspired dance performance venues in the United States to provide quantitative analysis of the organizations’ programming and leadership equity. Programming data for these venues is collected from open sources (primarily venue and company websites) for the 10-month period from October 2021 through July 2022. This report is an extended and updated version of the original 2020 Dance Venue Leadership & Programming Report that was produced in collaboration with the Center for Equity, Gender, and Leadership (EGAL) at UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business.

Findings from the current 2022 report conclude that female choreographers, on average, make up 35% of a venue’s programming and 40% of a company’s programming at all venues. DDP determines that on average, women make up 34% of venues’ leadership boards. Of the 118 companies commissioned to appear at these 73 venues, DDP reports that on average, women represent 49% of these companies’ board leadership when artistic and executive directors are considered. When only artistic directors are considered, women, on average, make up 45% of companies’ board leadership. On average, the companies programmed by venues have 43% female representation at the executive/decision-making level.