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2019-2020 Season Overview Now Available
Soo-bin Lee and My Kal Stromile in Helen Pickett’s Tsukiyo
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Annabelle Lopez Ochoa rehearses Requiem for a Rose (2016) with Smuin Contemporary Ballet. Photo by Chris Hardy. Courtesy of Smuin Contemporary Ballet

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Black, Brilliant, and a Ballerina, DDP Team Member Jenesis Williams Weighs in on Systemic Racism in Classical Dance

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Informing equity through data
analysis, advocacy and programming

Dance Data Project® is a global resource for the study and analysis of major national and international dance companies, venues, and choreographic awards. In addition, DDP surveys ballet competitions, festivals and scholarship programs worldwide. We provide a resource for those seeking information about female choreographers, set, costume & lighting designers, as well composers of classically based dance music.

We also cover recent news (as you’ll see below) and provide an archive of articles related to issues surrounding classical dance, including pay transparency and equity, hiring and and harassment policies. Browse, have a look, and feel free to provide feedback by contacting us on our contact page. Many thanks for visiting.

“ This is not a pipeline issue. It is a failure of imagination by a field whose job is to imagine the way the world could be. “

– Rachel Chavkin, Tony award-winning director of “Hadestown”

About the Dance Data Project®

Find out about our organization, mission, our methods, and the results of our decades of advocacy.

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let us know about special initiatives, or call our attention
to areas for study or a company, artist, festival, competition
or venue we haven’t discovered yet.

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Scene from Bonzi, Choreography by Annabelle Lopez Ochoa
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DDP Announcements

Jul 29, 2020

2019-2020 Season Overview Release

Dance Data Project® (DDP) today releases its 2019-2020 Season Overview, a statistical examination of choreographer gender within the seasons of the Top 50 U.S. companies. This year’s report indicates a significant increase in programming equity from last year, but men remain favored in almost every category.

DDP Talks To…

Global Conversations with Kelly Tweeddale | Navigating Challenging Times Ep. 2

The DDP team had a wonderful time getting to know San Francisco Ballet’s Executive Director, Kelly Tweeddale, for Episode 2. Her conversation with Liza covers everything from the initial lockdown in SF, to her years of experience as an arts administrator, and the important lesson she learned in her 40s. Kelly Tweeddale is the current Executive Director of San Francisco Ballet. Her career in the arts has seen her lead not just in ballet, but in symphony and opera, too. Previously serving the Seattle Opera and the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, her work has long emphasized advocating for women in leadership,...

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Global Conversations with Tamara Rojo | Navigating Challenging Times Ep. 1

We are honored to introduce the second round of #Global ConversationsDDP — Navigating Difficult Times with an interview with Tamara Rojo, ballet legend, QUEEN of fouettes (among other things) with the highest arches in the ‘biz, and artistic director and lead principal of the acclaimed English National Ballet. Read More Tamara Rojo has been Artistic Director and Lead Principal Dancer of the English National Ballet since 2012. Her training and career began in Madrid with Victor Ullate. After winning a Gold Medal at the Paris International Dance Competition and a unanimous awarding of a Special Jury Award in 1996, she...

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Global Conversations with Victoria Morgan | The Creative Process Ep. 9

As DDP’s Global Conversations turns from the creative process and women choreographers to the visionaries leading companies through crisis, we present our final installment in the first series, The Creative Process. In our final episode of part 1, Liza chats with her friend Victoria Morgan. Victoria has managed to choreograph countless works while serving as one of the US’ longest-standing women artistic directors (25 years in 2021-2022!!!) and for a time as CEO, too. Victoria weighs in on what it takes to be an effective leader, both artistically and administratively, in this episode that bridges the creative process with leading...

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Women Who
Inspire Us

We are always looking for new women
leaders in dance to feature on our site. You can
see a list of some of the women who stand out to us
on our Resources page.

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Our Book/Film List

Educate yourself on the dance world, past and present, with some of our favorite novels and films in the dance genre.

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Scene from Rock-a-Bye, Choreography by Penny Saunders, Courtesy of BalletX—Photographer: Candice DeTore

2019-2020 Season Overview Now Available

Global Conversations:
Navigating Challenging Times

Global Conversations:
The Creative Process

Black, Brilliant, and a Ballerina, DDP Team Member Jenesis Williams Weighs in on Systemic Racism in Classical Dance

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