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Broadway World Chicago: Auditorium Theatre Announces Partnership With Dance Data Project
By Chloe Rabinowitz 25 June 2021 Dance Data Project, in partnership with the Auditorium Theatre, announced the upcoming release of Global Conversations: Behind the Stage, the fifth round in a series of virtual interviews. Round 5 will highlight those professionals who work behind the scenes and out of sight, creating artistic magic in every production, while coping […]
DDP Announces Global Conversations Round 5: Behind the Stage & Partnership with Auditorium Theatre
June 24, 2021 | Northfield, IL | Dance Data Project® (DDP) today announces the upcoming release of Global Conversations: Behind the Stage, the fifth round in a series of virtual interviews. Round 5 will highlight those professionals who work behind the scenes and out of sight, creating artistic magic in every production, while coping with […]
5 Tangible Things Foundations Can Do to Help Female Choreographers
DDP ally and choreographer Nicole Haskins shares her thoughts on what foundations and funders can do to better support female choreographers.
Dance Magazine: Dance Data Project®’s Latest Report Includes Some Stunning Numbers
10 June 2021 By Jennifer Stahl Since 2015, Dance Data Project® has become a reliable source for hard numbers backing up conversations on gender inequity in ballet. Today it came out with an Artistic and Executive Leadership Report detailing the gender distribution among directors at the largest 100 ballet companies, as well as the pay gap between […]
Dance Data Project®’s Expanded 2021 Report Reveals Persistent and Significant Gender-Based Pay and Opportunity Gaps, Primarily at Largest United States Ballet Companies
Dance Data Project® (DDP) today released its third annual Artistic & Executive Leadership Report, doubling the scope of ballet companies surveyed to 100 and, for the first time, including compensation analysis for associate artistic directors and other highly paid individuals, in addition to previously surveyed artistic and executive directors.
Dance Data Project® Welcomes Six New Team Members to its Summer 2021 Cohort
Dance Data Project® welcomes six new team members to its summer 2021 cohort!
The New York Times: Lesbians in Ballet: ‘Has Anyone Like Me Ever Walked These Halls?’
1 June 2021 By Siobhan Burke As a teenage ballet student in the 1990s, Katy Pyle had no interest in dating: not boys, not girls, not anyone. A serious love interest — all consuming, really — was already in the picture: ballet. “I didn’t have space for any other relationships in my life,” Pyle, who […]
DDP Talks To…Emily Hartka and Sara Clayborne, Co-Directors of Charlottesville Ballet
DDP Talks To…Sara Clayborne and Emily Hartka, Co-Directors of Charlottesville Ballet
The Body: Dancing Towards the Dream of Asian Representation
By Juan Michael Porter II 28 May 2021 Last year, Phil Chan and Georgina Pazcoguin—the founders of Final Bow For Yellowface, an initiative created to eliminate offensive stereotypes of Asians on the stage—marked Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month by interviewing a different ballet dancer of Asian descent during each day of May. The […]
