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  • The Largest 150 U.S Contemporary and Modern Dance Companies Gender Leadership Distribution + Compensation Data Byte

    American Repertory Ballet will present Cinderella, a world premiere evening-length work by Samantha Dunster.

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    Ballet School Leadership

    Still I Rise featuring Chicago Sinfonietta Conductor Maestra Mei-Ann Chen and Deeply Rooted Dance Theater. Video by Dre Robinson

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  • 2025 ACCOMPLISHMENT SUMMARY

    Gauthier Dance will be in residence at the Holland Dance Festival and will present FireWorks, a program in two parts. Photo Courtesy of Gauthier Dance.

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  • 2025 Revenue Data Byte

    Ballet Tucson will present Desert Voices, a program featuring a new work by Margaret Mullin alongside work by Chieko Imada.

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  • Pointe by Pointe: January 2026

    From Ash to Promise, a triple bill premiering in London featuring Marika Brussel’s Lot’s Wife and Slant of the Earth. Photo Courtesy of Lynn Pryor.

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  • 2025+ Leadership Transitions Data Byte

    Images of Royal New Zealand Ballet resident choreographer, Sarah Foster-Sproull’s work “To Hold”. Photos by Stephen A’Court.

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  • Global Update: Bailey’s Blog

    Sarasota Ballet rehearsing “Program Four: Notes Unspoken”, a program featuring a world premiere work by Gemma Bond. Photo by Mikenna Bowers.

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  • 2026 Research Calendar

    West Australian Ballet rehearsing “Incandescence: Ballet at the Quarry”, a program featuring world premiere works by Chihiro Nomura and Polly Hilton. Photo by Mel Hozanovic.

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2025 DDP Accomplishments

2025 Accomplishments Summary

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Download the The Largest 150 U.S Contemporary and Modern Dance Companies Gender Leadership Distribution + Compensation Data Byte

DATA BYTE: The Largest 150 U.S Contemporary and Modern Dance Companies Gender Leadership Distribution + Compensation

The following Data Byte is Dance Data Project® (DDP)’s first combined examination of leadership and compensation among the largest contemporary and modern dance companies in the United States. The Largest 150 U.S. Contemporary & ModernDance Companies report was published in October 2025 and details the Largest 50 U.S. contemporary and modern dance companies, ordered by annual expenditures, as well as the Next and Additional 50 companies, ranking 150 companies in total.
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Ballet School Leadership Data Byte

DATA BYTE: 2025 Ballet School Leadership

This is Dance Data Project's®  first-ever Ballet School Leadership Data Byte, which examines the gender distribution of leadership within ballet schools affiliated with the Largest 150 Ballet & Classically Based Companies.
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DATA BYTE: 2025 Revenue

The 2025 Revenue Data Byte marks DDP’s first in-depth analysis of nonprofit revenue structures, utilizing IRS Form 990 data from FY2019 to FY2024 to examine how the Largest 150 U.S. ballet and classically based professional companies earn income. Understanding how nonprofit ballet companies generate and structure their revenue sheds light on how these companies maintain sustainability and ultimately reveal greater insight into the ballet industry’s overall operation. The Largest 150 companies are ranked in descending order based on the size of their annual revenue for FY2023 and are divided into three categories: the Largest 50 (#1-50), the Next 50 (#51-100), and the Additional 50 (#101-150) companies for further analysis.
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DATA BYTE-Company Ranking Based on Number of Dancers

DATA BYTE: 2025+ Leadership Transitions

DDP's first report to analyze dancer counts for the Largest 150 U.S. Ballet and Classically Based Companies ranked by FY 2023 expenditure.
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Number of Dancers By Company Report 2025

This is Dance Data Project® (DDP)’s seventh annual study examining the gender distribution of leadership at ballet and classically based companies in the United States. This is DDP’s fourth iteration of the report examining the Largest 150 companies. This report analyzes the gender distribution of Artistic, Executive, and Associate/Assistant Directors, and for the third year, includes Heads of Schools, Heads of Second Companies, and Rehearsal Directors. DDP continues to expand our analysis of leadership positions within ballet, and, for the first time, the gender distribution of music directors and conductors among the Largest 150 companies is examined. 
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DDP Maps Compensation Dashboard

DDP has created an interactive dashboard designed to explore data related to the Largest 150 ballet and classically based companies across the United States. The map provides visualizations of the cost of living, the distribution of the Largest 150 ballet and classically based companies across the U.S. (based on FY2022 expenditures), and the financial expenditures of these companies to uncover financial trends and disparities.

We created maps that showcase different financial perspectives, allowing users to gain further insight into the ballet industry.

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