SEASON OVERVIEW 2022/2023

This Report represents Dance Data Project^®’s fifth annual Season Overview report, which examines the gender distribution of choreographers in the 2022/2023 season among the Largest 150 Ballet and Classically Inspired Companies in the United States (based on FY 2020 expenditures). This is DDP’s second iteration of the report examining the Largest 150 companies, compared to only the Largest 50 companies in the past. DDP examines 1637 works in this report; a remarkable expansion from the first Season Overview report in 2019 where only 645 works were analyzed. DDP has also extended its research efforts to offer an in-depth analysis of the 2022/2023 Season Programming across the Largest 150 companies. Notably, this year’s report introduces the inclusion of “Company Premieres” in the analysis, as well as ranks companies within the Largest 50 based on the number of works by women for the very first time.

Among the Largest 150 companies, 23.9% of full-length works and 35.0% of mixed bill works were choreographed by women, indicating that works choreographed by women are more often presented in mixed rep programs instead of the more prestigious (and expensive) full evening works.