DA:NCE Newsletter – January 2025

View this email in your browser   DA:NCE Newsletter – January 2025 ‘Healthy DA:NCE Showcase’: New Ideas Become 2 Ideas We’re thrilled to share our inaugural Healthy Dance Showcase, a celebration of dance studios and organizations across the nation showcasing the joy and wonder of creative, age-appropriate dance. Watch how these performances highlight the beauty […]

Australia’s Stance On Child Exploitation In Dance

The sexualisation of children in dance is an issue that has been growing exponentially in Western culture. The lack of regulation, combined with the influence of the media, has seen hypersexualisation of children’s dance spiral out of control in Australia in recent years.  One of the last dance eisteddfods (competitive festivals) I attended pre-Covid in […]

J’Adore Dance

J’Adore Dance, located in Midlothian, Virginia, has been training children to dance since 2010.  Their mission emphasizes creating unforgettable experiences for all to enjoy through professional quality shows.  They promise to protect the innocence of the children in their dance studio with age-appropriate music, choreography and content even as they seek to remain relevant and […]

Promoting Healthy, Age-Appropriate Choreography and Costumes in Children’s Dance Competitions

As those who engage with the work of DA:NCE Awareness: No Child Exploited will know, there is a growing trend towards the hypersexualization of children’s dance in adult costumes and choreography. This article explores strategies that dance schools, competition organizations, and judges can employ to promote healthier, age-appropriate standards in choreography and costumes, ultimately creating […]

Safe and healthy dance practice: A fundamental approach

In being asked to write for the DA:NCE newsletter I thought long and hard about what the focus of this article should be. Of course, it should cover issues around the hypersexualisation of young people in dance, but the challenges of addressing this issue are vast, stretch across dance styles and contexts around the world. […]

DA:NCE Newsletter – October 2024

DA:NCE Newsletter – October 2024 The Healthy DA:NCE Directory gets the Spotlight Do you know a dance studio or dance organization that is steadfast in their commitment to use age-appropriate choreography, costumes and music in children’s dance classes? If yes, learn all about the first of its kind, FREE, national database we’ve created and then […]

Salome’s Dance: A Biblical Examination of the Dangers of Hypersexualized Dancing

For centuries people have been exploited in various ways. Sadly, this includes the hypersexualization of children in dance. What does this mean? This occurs when children are either coerced or encouraged to wear non-age-appropriate costumes, including revealing or sexualized outfits. Another aspect is when the child is made to dance to songs with sexualized lyrics […]

Suzanne’s School of Dance

One of the goals of the DA:NCE is to highlight organizations we feel embody healthy dance. Suzanne’s School of Dance has two locations, both located in College Station, Texas.  They are featured on the Healthy DA:NCE Directory.  Their motto is “Cultivating a Dance Community Marked by Integrity and Excellence.  They seek to provide their students […]

Graceful Balance

Dance has long been a physical, mental and spiritual means for children to develop a healthy lifestyle through performing arts. However, we have seen a steady increase in the hypersexualization of children’s dance performances. Choices for music, choreography and instruction typically advance with the skill set of the dancers. To protect our young dancers from […]

Music, lights, action: The child dancer from India and the unethical expectations of its media

India is a land of dancing- at festivals, festivities and social events. For most young Indians, the initial settings for learning informally, are family settings, especially weddings. The family, a gaggle of aunts, uncles, cousins, second cousins, nieces, nephews, especially grandfathers and grandmothers, as preservers of culture, encourage the younger generation profusely. I remember being […]

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DA:NCE is a nonpartisan, unifying organization that welcomes input from any individual that values protecting children from hypersexualization in adult costumes, choreography and music inside and outside dance environments.