danceartsalliance

Our Mission
To represent, support and advocate for a unified Dance Arts industry

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@Captain_C2 @LUSUMNATURAE @thomas_violence Same…. Yet we just introduce ourselves as Aussies 🤷‍♀️

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Did you know that the Victorian government recently made significant changes to the Child Safety Standards. Our industry is legally obligated to make sure our organisations are compliant with these standards by January 2023.

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Why become a member with Dance Arts Alliance? Hear from our Chair about what we do and why it’s so important we join together to protect our industry. 🤝

https://t.co/B1idaWnDGo

[QandA @QandA]

Artists who worked in the gig economy weren’t eligible for Jobkeeper payments. Darren Hayes says it led to the loss of great creatives and it is “insulting for people who had given up their entire lives to perform for all of us”. Watch #QandA on iview: https://t.co/nggsbCTwte

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[Move Dance Melbourne @MoveDance_]

Proud to be an accredited dance studio and @danceartsvic member

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@MoveDance_ We are so grateful to you @MoveDance_ and your commitment to the highest standards of dance arts education 🤩

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VICTORIAN DANCE & PERFORMING ARTS EDUCATION INDUSTRY ON VERGE OF COLLAPSE
@danceartsvic are lobbying the @VicGovAu to urgently reinstate financial support, including rent relief and Business Cost Assistance, to protect the 1000 Dance & Performing Arts studios across Victoria

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‘The Victorian Government have had nearly 2 years to work on a strategic plan to support industries through a recovery phase, yet they have completely disappeared at the most critical time for Victorian small businesses.’
Contact: Mike Harrison-Lamond 0420 301 309

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URGENT ACTION: The Victorian Government @DanielAndrewsMP @VicGovAu is MIA again when it comes to supporting small business, with many of our dance and performing arts studios in trouble! #savethearts

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VICTORIAN DANCE AND PERFORMING ARTS EDUCATION INDUSTRY ON VERGE OF COLLAPSE
Dance Arts Alliance are lobbying @VicGovAu to reinstate financial support, including rent relief and Biz Cost Assistance, to protect the 1000 Performing Arts studios across Vic in financial distress.

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‘Nearly every Australian artist starring on the stage and screen received their start at a dance and performing arts school. Both Federal and State Governments refuse to adequately support this incredibly important industry that contributes to our State’s culture and wellbeing’.

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Quotes attributable Mike Harrison-Lamond (Chair) ‘Anyone who has a child enrolled needs to contact their local MP today. Two years of building debt, the removal of government support, and a crippling start to 2022, there is a good chance your local studio will not be reopening’.

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- Dance provides physical and mental health benefits, even one dance class can help reduce depression (source: The Arts in Psychotherapy 2011) and increased happiness from dance can last up to a week after class (source: University of Hertfordshire 2012)

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- Prior to COVID, over 150,000 children attended a dance and performing arts studio each week (source: ABS 2016) and was the second most popular after-school activity for girls (source: Australian Sports Commission 2017)

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- Dance Arts Alliance represents many of the 1000 Victorian small businesses providing Dance and Performing Arts education across Vic
- Dance and Performing Arts contributes over $300m a year into Vic economy & provides jobs for over 10,000(source: Ausdance industry survey 2020)

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In the current environment with 30,000-50,000 COVID cases a day, enrolments are half of January 2020 and 2021, business owners are suffering from anxiety, and the Victorian Government is ignoring the crisis of small business across a multitude of industries.

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The Victorian Government support has been inadequate to cover commercial business expenses, with Business Cost Assistance program funding withdrawn in October 2021 and Rent Relief ending this weekend (for those small number of businesses who qualified).

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The majority of these dance and performing arts businesses, some having operated for decades, are struggling - many having already closed their doors permanently.

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Dance and Performing Arts studios have been crippled throughout the pandemic, with the @VicGovAu wrongfully categorising children’s dance and performing arts classes alongside brothels – meaning it was the first industry closed and the last to reopen through all 6 lockdowns.