Artistic and Executive Leadership Report

Dance Data Project®’s (DDP) fourth annual Artistic and Executive Leadership Report is the most comprehensive study to date. For the 2022 Report, the DDP research team produced two parts. The first, Largest 150 U.S. Ballet & Classically Based Companies & Financial Scope of the Industry, was published in June 2022 and listed the Largest 50 U.S. ballet companies, ordered by budget, as well as the Next 50 and an Additional 50 for a total of 188 companies surveyed to rank 150. The Largest 150 U.S. Ballet & Classically Based Companies & Financial Scope of the Industry also detailed the combined expenses of the Largest 50, Next 50, and Additional 50 and revealed that aggregate expenditures for the Largest 50 companies dropped by almost 12% from the previous year, totaling $586,724,176. The aggregate expenditures for the Next 50 totaled $44,519,966, almost 8% of the Largest 50 in FY 2020.
DDP believes it is important to gather momentum in surveying and comprehending the entire landscape of ballet in the United States. The 2022 Artistic and Executive Director Report will be the second of DDP’s reports to unpack the impact of COVID-19 on the dance sector. This Report focuses both longitudinally, surveying the gender distribution of Artistic & Executive Directors for the current year, 2022, as well as past years, and then examining compensation for the most recently generally available FY2020.