Equity, Diversity and Inclusion in Dance Study

After three (3) years of hard, consultative work, the Regroupement québécois de la danse (RQD) is very proud to release and share the fruit of a collaborative effort in concert with Diversité artistique, UQAM’S Service aux collectivités (SAC), its principal researcher, Ève Lamoureux as well as its research coordinator, Anne-Julie Beaudin, the research report on « Implementation of equity measures for artists and cultural workers who have an immigrant background or are racialized or Indigenous : Best practices and challenges in the dance community.»

« The only performing arts discipline in Quebec to have conducted such a detailed and in-depth exercice, dance presents the real state of its sector so that it can move forward in its quest for equity. A work that we hope will help advance the cause and inspire our milieu to remain resilient and avant-garde. »  – Executive Director of the RQD.

« This far-reaching report is the result of exemplary participation by the dance milieu in Quebec. We hope that this inventory of the state of the art in terms of equity and diversity will help dance to continue its efforts towards inclusion, and peak the interest of other artistic disciplines to follow suit — to finally draw up a global balance sheet of the cultural milieu.» – Executive Director of DAM.

During the research work, the committee overseeing the research, was made up Tau S. Bui (DAM), Nadine Medawar (RQD), Ivanie Aubin-Malo (performer, choreographer and cultural worker) and Geneviève Chicoine (SAC-UQAM). The aim of this research was to gain a better understanding of the exclusion factors affecting artists and workers in the dance milieu. This research offers an assessment of equity measures, particularly those aimed at artists and cultural workers of immigrants background, are racialized or Indigenous. It also includes a series of recommandations aimed at acknowledging this systemic problem and addressed to the various sectors of the dance milieu.

The synthesis in French and the synthesis in English, as well as the rapport in full, can be viewed on the RQD website just here and the SAC website.