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Tiler Peck, from NYC Ballet, rehearsing her upcoming world premiere “Symphonie Espagnole” with Mira Nadon
Photo by Photos by Erin Baiano
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Tiler Peck, from NYC Ballet, rehearsing her upcoming world premiere “Symphonie Espagnole” with Mira Nadon
Photo by Photos by Erin Baiano
Your gift helps to promote equity! We’ve come a long way, and your help can take us further. Now more than ever it is essential that we work together to raise awareness and fight for gender equality in the Arts.
When you donate to Dance Data Project®, you are helping to change the performing arts sector. Your financial contribution helps to sustain DDP’s mission to raise awareness related to gender equity and provide much needed resources to our community of artists. Your gift supports our ongoing efforts in:
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Dance Data Project® was created to examine gender imbalance in artistic and administrative leadership in dance companies, venues, and organizations. By issuing data reports, advocacy, and programming, DDP raises awareness related to gender equality, primarily in areas of leadership and choreographic opportunities. We are the only organization doing this vital work to produce metrics-based research clearly outlining issues of equity and transparency in the dance industry.
Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy’s 2025 Women & Girls Index found that “for the first time since the Index was created in 2019, giving to women’s and girls’ organizations surpassed 2% of overall U.S. charitable giving—peaking at 2.18% in 2022 before settling back to 2.04% in 2023. This translates to more than $11 billion annually directed to these organizations.” This underscores the importance of philanthropic giving to initiatives, companies, and organizations that focus specifically on women.
In the dance industry specifically, DDP’s 2023/2024 Season Overview Report shows that within the Largest 10 companies, only 14.6% of works commissioned were choreographed by women, a decline from the 2021/2022 season where 14.9% of works were choreographed by women. Despite their considerable financial capacity, combined expenditures of $380,115,421 in FY 2022, representing 52.9% of the Largest 150’s aggregate budget by expenditure, the Largest 10 continue to severely limit opportunities for female choreographers. This indicates a consistent trend by which the largest companies with the most funding are consistently choosing to program less work by women than smaller companies with much smaller budgets. Globally, DDP’s 2025 Global Leadership report identifies that of the 217 artistic directors leading classically based dance companies in the U.S. and internationally, 65 (30.0%) are women, while 152 (70.0%) are men. Comparatively, in 2024, 29% of artistic directors were women and 71% were men, demonstrating little change over the past year. Our research creates the opportunity for a more informed donor base that is able to target giving towards smaller, more equitable organizations. This sort of transparency in the dance industry is vital and lies at the heart of DDP’s work. This accountability also contributes to gender equity by providing concrete means of fostering a more equitable, healthy, and safe workplace as well as ensuring integrity in procedures and policies. DDP specifically tailors our advocacy and programming to the needs of up-and-coming female talent in dance. At the bottom of this page, we’ve provided a snapshot of these initiatives, as well as the research and Listening Tours which inform all of the work that we do at Dance Data Project®.
Dance Data Project® is proud to receive a grant of support from the Virginia B. Toulmin Foundation allowing us to expand our efforts.
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