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DANCE WORKFORCE BY COUNTRY OF ORIGIN Opportunity to Engage Foreign-Born New Yorkers People born outside the United States are significantly underrepresented in the dance workforce studied. Only 15% of nonprofit respondents and 17% of fiscally sponsored respondents indicate a country of origin outside the United States, compared to 37% of the City’s population, according to United States Census data. The finding for fiscally sponsored dance workers holds constant for artswide respondents, 18% of whom indicate a country of origin outside the United States. The most common countries of origin for the dance workforce studied differ from those of the City’s population. For both foreign-born nonprofit and sponsored dance workers, Canada and Japan are most repeated by a wide margin. For the City’s foreign-born population, the Dominican Republic, which is not represented in the survey respondents, China, and Mexico are most common. This finding invites country-specific strategies to engage foreign-born workers.
