So you think you can attend dance performances Canada
 

“Dance Sees Remarkable Increase in Attendance” according to The Value of Presenting study on dance attendance in Canada, which says that dance attendance by Canadians has grown to 15% in 2011 from about 5% in 1992, in the first Canadian national data on dance attendance available in 14 years. (Dance Attendance Supplementary Analysis ) I don’t know whether Toronto companies have seen this surge at their own box offices (somehow I’d be surprised…) but the report traces this cross-Canada growth to the popularity of TV shows like So You Think You Can Dance, and Dancing with the Stars.

As an old (did I mean to say that?) dance manager I am interested in this idea, which was also a strong theme in Creative Trust’s Audience Engagement Survey and Alan Brown’s Ontario Arts Engagement Study for the Ontario Arts Council. Both found a strong connection between  more

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