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Allison McGuire, Louiza Avraam, and Ana Maria Lucaciu // Choreolab / What You Are About To See // Opera Ballett Vlaanderen
Performances: November 2, 2025 - November 15, 2025
Photos: (c) Opera Ballet Vlaanderen / Nicha Rodboon
Allison McGuire, Louiza Avraam, and Ana Maria Lucaciu // Choreolab / What You Are About To See // Opera Ballett Vlaanderen
Performances: November 2, 2025 - November 15, 2025
Photos: (c) Opera Ballet Vlaanderen / Nicha Rodboon
In rehearsal with Suzanne Haag for Dracula // Eugene Ballet
Performances: November 1, 2025 - November 2, 2025
Photo by Bob Williams
Eugene Ballet will present Dracula, a world premiere full-length work by choreographer Suzanne Haag, Associate Artistic Director and Resident Choreographer.
This #WSW, we’re highlighting a broader issue: barriers for women–especially Black women–aren’t limited to the stage. Race and gender continue to shape commissions, leadership, and the power to advance the art form.
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Key Finding: In FY23, the Largest 50 contemporary and modern companies operated with $171 million in total expenditures—$567 million (76.83%) less than the Largest 50 ballet companies.
Read the Largest U.S. Contemporary & Modern Dance Companies Report at dancedataproject.com/research.
DDP’s latest report reveals deepening financial disparities across the U.S. dance ecosystem.
Read more in the newly released Largest U.S. Contemporary & Modern Dance Companies Report at dancedataproject.com/research or through the link in bio.
DDP's fourth annual report on the Largest U.S. Contemporary & Modern Dance Companies is now LIVE – all Largest 10 companies in deficit; ballet counterparts generate 5.49x more revenue.
Read the full report at dancedataproject.com/research.
In rehearsal with Esie Mensah for AFROFUSION // Fall for Dance North
Performances: October 15, 2025 - October 18, 2025
#DanceDataProject #GenderEquity #BaileysBlog #Dance #FemaleChoreographers
In rehearsal for stim // Lauren Lovette // Paul Taylor Dance Company at Lincoln Center
Performances: November 4-23, 2025
Paul Taylor Dance Company will be in residence at Lincoln Center, and Lauren Lovette will present her seventh world premiere for the company.
Photos by Noah Aberlin
Elsewhere // Yin Yue Dance Company (YYDC) // 92NY's Women Move the World Mainstage Series
Performances: October 17, 2025 - October 18, 2025
Video courtesy of YYDC and 92NY/Harkness Dance Center
In honor of Hispanic Heritage Month, we are featuring CONTRA-TIEMPO, a women-founded and women-led Los Angeles-based activist dance theater company.
To learn more about the company and their upcoming work head to contra-tiempo.org.
In recognition of Indigenous Peoples’ Day, Dance Data Project® highlights Larissa FastHorse (Sicangu Lakota Nation) — an award-winning playwright whose work centers Indigenous perspectives in contemporary American theater.
In rehearsal with Caroline Finn for Don't Forget to Panic (working title) // NW Dance Project
Performances: Oct 24+25 as part of Carmen+
Video by Kelly O'Connor
In rehearsal with Annabelle Lopez Ochoa for Gentleman Jack // Northern Ballet
World premiere March 7, 2026
Photos by Emily Nuttall
#DanceDataProject #GenderEquity #BaileysBlog #Dance #FemaleChoreographers
Welcome to the team, Catherine Spratt.
We are thrilled to welcome Ms. Spratt as our newest Research Consultant.
Read more about her and the rest of the DDP team at dancedataproject.com.
In rehearsal with McKinley Willis, Natasha Markwick, and Alexis Diggs // Brooklyn Ballet Incubator 2025
Photos courtesy of Brooklyn Ballet
*Find upcoming works by female choreographers and SO MUCH MORE in DDP's weekly Global Update: Bailey's Blog, on our website AND now Substack!
Last week, DDP served as a sponsor for the 12th annual CORPS de Ballet International Conference in Salt Lake City!
Huge thanks to the CORPS de Ballet International Conference for having us!
Welcome to the DDP team, Nicole Dickson!
Nicole is our newest Research & IT Consultant, and we are beyond excited to have her expertise with us.
Misty Copeland, principal dancer with @abtofficial, has been an icon for gender and racial equity in the ballet industry. Now, she's ready to take her final bow this fall.
Read more in the New York Times: www.nytimes.com/2025/06/07/m...
#DanceDataProject #GenderEquity #Dance #WellSaidWednesday
In rehearsal for The Choreography of CRISPR // Pigeonwig Dance
Premiere: May 2025
Cinematography by Joe Raffanti
*Find upcoming works by female choreographers and SO MUCH MORE in DDP's weekly Global Update: Bailey's Blog, on our website AND now Substack!
In rehearsal for The Grey Swan
Premiere: May 13, 2025
Photos courtesy of The Grey Swan
*Find upcoming works by female choreographers and SO MUCH MORE in DDP's weekly Global Update: Bailey's Blog, on our website AND now Substack!
#DanceDataProject #GenderEquity #BaileysBlog #Ballet
In rehearsal for Anastasia // Rochester City Ballet
World Premiere: May 9-11, 2025
Photo credit: Thomas Rodriguez
*Find upcoming works by female choreographers and SO MUCH MORE in DDP's weekly Global Update: Bailey's Blog, on our website AND now Substack!
In rehearsal for Carly Topazio's new work for Unified Harmonies // The Rosin Box Project
Premiere: May 28 - May 29, 2025
Video courtesy of The Rosin Box Project
#DanceDataProject #GenderEquity #BaileysBlog #Dance #FemaleChoreographers #TheRosinBoxProject #CarlyTopazio
PRUFOCK by Diane Coburn Bruning // Chamber Dance Project
Premiere: June 20–22, 2025
Video courtesy of Chamber Dance Project
#DanceDataProject #GenderEquity #BaileysBlog #Dance #FemaleChoreographers #ChamberDanceProject
In 2017, at the Cannes film festival, Nicole Kidman pledged to work with a female director every 18 months. She’s now worked with a total of 27 female directors on both TV shows and movies.
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In rehearsal for Rena Butler's new work CRACKS // Pacific Northwest Ballet
World premiere: May 30-June 8, 2025
Photo © Lindsay Thomas
*Find upcoming works by female choreographers and SO MUCH MORE in DDP's weekly Global Update: Bailey's Blog, on our website AND now Substack!
Yes, exactly - sound like dance? 🤔
Source: "Como Women's captain retires, spotlighting uncertain future for female footballers," The Athletic (NYTimes.com/Athletic)
#DanceDataProject #GenderEquity #Dance #WellSaidWednesday
Huge thank you to these ballet companies who have already responded to our Form 990 outreach emails 🎉
#DanceDataProject #GenderEquity #DataVerification #Dance
Attention ballet companies -- Here's why we're asking you to self-report compensation information.
Photo credit: David Klumpp
#DanceDataProject #GenderEquity #DataVerification #Dance
Comment below with names of dance schools, colleges, universities, & conservatories for inclusion in our June newsletter about the role these schools play in commissioning original work by female choreographers. ⬇️
📸 Photos of Amy Hall Garner's "The Nutcracker" for Baltimore School for the Arts
