Dance/NYC Census of NY Dance Companies

[miliosr]

The New York Times printed a short piece about Dance/NYC's 2006 census of NY dance makers (449 respondents) so I went to their site to take a look at the report. The findings are very interesting but there was one piece of information that really caught my eye:

Only 15 respondents/companies (3.3% of total respondents) have budgets of $1 million or more but these 15 companies account for 83.7% of total dance expenses in NYC.

Holy imbalance Batman!!!

[Mel Johnson]

Now, I'm not an economist, but the imbalance can be partly explained by the exorbitant cost of doing any kind of business at all in New York City.