Statistics

(2007). National Statistics Company List [Data file]. Available from Dance USA’s website, http://www.danceusa.org/facts_figures/national.htm

This website provides a spreadsheet and statistical facts collected by the Dance USA organization. The spreadsheet supplies a list of dance companies around the nation, the genre the company specializes in and the company’s income and contact information. This data could be used to compare the prevalence of technical to modern or more social dance companies and their financing in order to highlight the support of each as an art form.

National Endowment for the Arts. (2002). [Displays multiple tables and written analysis of the results to the survey, who is participating in performing arts, performing or creating arts and watching and listening to performing arts]. Survey of Public Participation in the Arts. Retrieved from http://www.nea.gov/research/notes/81.pdf

This website provides four tables documenting the results of the survey and written analysis of each. There is a table displaying each of the following: U.S. Adults Participating in the Arts at Least Once in Past 12 Months: 1982, 1992, 2002, U.S. Adults Who Watched or Listened to Performing Arts on TV, Radio, Recordings or the Internet in the Past 12 Months: 1982, 1992, 2002, U.S. Adults Performing or Creating Art at Least Once in Past 12 Months: 1982, 1992, 2002 and Percent of U.S. Adults Participating in the Arts at Least Once in the 12 Months Ending August 2002. There is a specific section surveyed for dance in each table which gives perspective to how many people participate, perform, create and watch dance (either dance in general or in specific genres of dance). It also tables what gateways people use to view dance. This could be used to further analyze the bias performing arts receives when being recognized through research, the progression of the presence of different genres of dance in America and how and why certain genres are more recognized than others.