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Diversity, Justice, Equity, and Inclusion (5 required tables)
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When the review panel reviews proposals, it will consider the role historically under resourced groups—including African, Latina/o/x, Asian, Arab, and Native American (ALAANA), LGBTQ+, women-identifying and gender nonconforming and/or nonbinary, disabled, and immigrant artists—play within the applicant pool and wider dance field. To help with the assessment, we ask you to answer the questions below. Please complete the following tables to the best of your ability. Please note Dance/NYC prioritizes self-identification and encourages applicants to collect demographic data from its stakeholders in an anonymous manner. Sample demographic data survey/questionnaires can be found by visiting Dance/NYC Sample Invitation to Self Identify 2026. Dance/NYC discourages applicants from assuming the demographic information of its organizational staff, board, volunteers, artists, or audiences. If you need additional guidance, please contact us at danceadvancementfund@dance.nyc.
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Dance/NYC’s use of terms builds on learning with established leaders and experts in justice, equity, and inclusion. Dance/NYC recognizes that language is constantly in flux and that words might have different meanings depending on their context and use. Dance/NYC is engaged in a continuous process of refining language used in its research and prioritizes feedback from communities impacted by its work. Please refer to a full glossary and resource directory: Dance.NYC/JEIdirectory.
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If the provided identification categories do not fully reflect the identities of you and/or others you work with, please indicate which of the categories you and/or they most closely identify with. If an individual acts in multiple capacities within your organization or group, please account for them in the category where they spend the majority of their employment time with the applicant. Please ensure the total number of Artistic director(s)/lead artistic staff member(s), Artistic Staff/Contractors, Administrative Staff/Contractors, and Board are consistent across all tables. If you are a fiscally sponsored artist/group and do not have your own board, please leave those rows empty.
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What are the racial demographics of your total staff, contractors, and board, including leadership (as applicable)? (required)
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Asian/ Asian AmericanBlack/ African AmericanHispanic/ Latino/ Latina/ LatinxMiddle- Eastern/ North AfricanNative American/ American Indian/ Alaska NativeNative Hawaiian/ Pacific IslanderWhiteMulti-racial/ Multi-ethnic (2+ ethnicities/ races)Decline to StateNot listedTotals
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What are the disability demographics of your total staff, contractors, and board, including leadership (as applicable)? (required)
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“Disability” and “Disabled” as used by Dance/NYC are intended as markers of identity and membership within a specific minority group connected by social, political, and cultural experiences. The use of the term disability is not intended to assign medical significance. This use of language follows movements in disability studies and disability rights, discussed in detail in Simi Linton’s seminal “Claiming Disability: Knowledge and Identity”. Further, this formulation of disability encompasses all impairments--mobility and physical, sensory (including, but not limited to, vision and hearing), intellectual, cognitive and/or learning, and psychological, whether readily apparent or not.
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DisabledNon-disabledDecline to StateNot listedTotals
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What are the immigration demographics of your total staff, contractors, and board, including leadership? (required)
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Dance/NYC follows leadership in immigrant rights by embracing a wider understanding of the term “immigrant,” one that allows individuals to self-identify as immigrants, regardless of their classification by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, and includes people who are foreign-born and their descendants. Dance/NYC also recognizes the term as a marker for identification and membership within specific minority groups connected by social, political, and cultural experiences.
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ImmigrantNon-immigrantDecline to StateNot listedTotals
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What are the gender demographics of your total staff, contractors, and board, including leadership (as applicable)? (required)
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AgenderBigenderCisgender manCisgender womanGender fluidGender Non-conformingGenderqueerIntersexManNon-binaryQueerQuestioningTransgender manTransgender womanTwo spiritWomanDecline to StateNot listedTotals
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What are the sexual identify demographics of your total staff, contractors, and board, including leadership (as applicable)? (required)
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AsexualBi+BiromanticBisexualDemiromanticDemisexualGay ManGay WomanLesbianPanromanticPansexualQueerQuestioningSame-gender lovingStraight or heterosexualDecline to stateNot listedTotals
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