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Performing Arts in Canada: What Are Audiences Telling Us? – November 25 Read More

Performing Arts in Canada: Where Are The Audiences? – November 16 Read More

Modernization Insurance Employment Consultation Recommendations Read More

Safer Spaces Read More

2021 Covid-19 Announcements Read More

Re-imagining Service Organizations : Decolonizing Canadian Dance Read More

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Data visualization and infographics

Infographic: Canadians’ Arts, Culture and Heritage participation in 2016 by Hill Strategies

Infographic on tax compliance for non-resident performers and companies touring in Canada, by CAPACOA and the Performing Arts Tax Working Group.

Interactive Survey results from the Social Impacts of Dance Organizations in Canada

From 2013 through 2015, dance organizations increasingly offer programming for social impacts that aim at improving the lives of individuals and their communities. Research of activities of programs that are offered by dance organizations to achieve social impacts by the Canada Council for the Arts.

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How to be a Dance Advocate and speak to politicians convincingly

by Lesley Bramhill for the CDA

RESOURCES FOR DANCE ADVOCATES

A compilation of statistical and qualitative data to help you with your dance advocacy.

Statistics and reports relating to the dance sector:

The Status of Women in the Canadian Arts and Cultural Industries – October 2018, the Ontario Arts Council
Gender Parity in the Canadian Arts Sector and the Barriers to Women’s Leadership – May 31, 2018, Kate Cornell of the Canadian Arts Coalition
Economic measures of the performing arts in Canada and Economic statistics by province of the performing arts in
Canada (PTCI) – February 2018,Statistics Canada *Summary by the Canada Council here. *Summary and analysis by Hil Strategies Research here.
Arts and heritage access, and availability survey – August 2017, Department of Canadian Heritage
Vital Signs – Arts and Belonging – April 2017, Community Foundations of Canada and CAPACOA
Summary of The Canada Dance Mapping Study – January 2017, Canada Council for the Arts

Statistics and reports relating to dance organizations:

Diversity and Drivers of Arts Attendance – May 2019, Commissioned by Nanos by Canada’s Performing Arts Alliance
Demographic Patterns in Canadians’ Arts Participation in 2016 – February 2019, Hill Strategies Research Inc
J Culture Track: Canada releases new data on the attitudes and behaviours of Canadian cultural consumers – June 2018, Business/Arts, LaPlaca Cohen, Nanos Research
2017 National Compensation Study – For Managerial and Administrative Positions in Not-for-Profit Arts Organizations – April 2018, CHRC
Survey of the Social Impacts of Dance Organizations in Canada – 2016, EKOS Research Associations Inc for the Canada Council for the Arts

Statistics and reports relating to individual artists:

A Statistical Profile of Artists in Canada in 2016 (with summary information about cultural workers) – March 2019, Hill Strategies Research Inc *this report has specific details for both “dancers” and “producers, directors & choreographers”.
Artist Career Research Methods (Executive Summary) – January 2019, Hill Strategies Research Inc and the Canada Council for the Arts *an in-depth Canadian and international literature review into methods used to understand artists’ work conditions, incomes, and career paths.
Professional Dance Performers in Canada in 2016 – Activities, incomes, health and career development – December 2016, DTRC
Who Can Afford to be a Starving Artist? – June 2016, Createquity
Canadian Actors’ Equity Association census – 2015 by, CAEA

Resources for Dance Advocates

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Interactive Survey results from the Social Impacts of Dance Organizations in Canada

How to be a Dance Advocate and speak to politicians convincingly

RESOURCES FOR DANCE ADVOCATES

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