How many dance events are listed?

5,085 published events expand to 20,760 active occurrences across 112 active metropolitan areas. Coverage continues to grow daily through automated discovery from studio websites, ICS feeds, and major event platforms.

How is the data sourced?

Studios are aggregated from public business directories and enriched with Google Places ratings. Events come from official studio websites, ICS calendar feeds, recognized competition federations (NDCA, WDSF, USA Dance, ISTD, WSDC, UCWDC, Blackpool, and others), and direct submissions from organizers. Every event maintains source URL provenance.

Why is this data valuable?

Dancers benefit from a unified directory across styles, regions, and skill levels. Studio owners benefit from visibility to a global dance audience. Researchers, journalists, and the broader dance community benefit from an evidence base where previously fragmented information lived in scattered websites and word-of-mouth.

The Dance Industry — By The Numbers

A Worldwide Portrait of Dance

Name: Dance Industry — Worldwide Studio + Event Directory
Creator: LODance

What does the global dance industry actually look like? Where are the studios, where are the events, and how deep does the catalog of styles and figures really go? We publish what we know, updated continuously from our worldwide directory.

At a Glance

Verified live from the LODance directory. Updated continuously.

8,713

Dance studios

Countries covered

112

Active metro areas

8,232

Studios with rating

5,085

Published events

14,438

Future event occurrences

214

Dance styles indexed

3,846

Primary sources catalogued

Syllabi (step-detail)

15,213

Figures (raw step data)

22,903

Steps in catalog

30,858

Music tracks

4,453

Published dance artworks

7,343

Dance products (live)

Active merchants

9,564

Product listings

What The Numbers Reveal

Derived Insights

Raw counts are the opening drumbeat — ratios are where the melody starts. These metrics are computed live from observed LODance directory data. Each card carries a data-confidence badge so you know how much trust the number deserves.

Studios per active metroObserved

77.8

8,713 studios / 112 metros

Concentration signal — high in mature dance ecosystems.

% of studios with a websiteObserved

89.7%

7,814 / 8,713

Adjusts our scraping ceiling for source-discovery.

% of studios with a Google ratingObserved

94.5%

8,232 / 8,713

Trust signal — high rating-coverage means real-business density.

Published events per studioObserved

0.584

5,085 / 8,713

Today's number is tiny on purpose — the engine just turned on. This grows daily.

Active occurrences per eventObserved

4.1

20,760 / 5,085

Reflects mostly weekly-class recurrence patterns.

Music tracks per dance styleObserved

30,858 / 315

Curated music library indexed against canonical taxonomy.

Artworks per dance styleObserved

4,453 / 315

Public-domain + CC works harvested from museum APIs.

Syllabi per dance styleObserved

3,846 / 315

Includes historic, modern, federation, and academic syllabi.

% of figures with detailed step dataObserved

12.2%

1,858 / 15,213 figures

Raw step instructions; visualization-layer (animation) is the separate Steps Engine roadmap.

Step instruction recordsObserved

22,903

beat × figure × syllabus × role

Across 104 contributing syllabi.

Avg US dance-studio revenue (industry)External Benchmark

~$342k/yr

$5.0B US market ÷ 14,622 US dance-studio businesses

IBISWorld 2025; mean not median; skewed by large chains.

Avg US dancer/choreographer wageExternal Benchmark

$23.97/hr

BLS 2024 median for SOC 27-2031

Workforce median, not studio-employed average.

Annual dancer spend (hobbyist)Modeled Estimate

$720–$1,800

Group classes 1×/week, $60–$150/mo

Range; depends on metro + studio tier. Survey calibration pending.

Annual dancer spend (competitive)Modeled Estimate

$1,500–$10,000+

Entry fees + coaching + costumes + travel

Wide variance across discipline + level.

Avg students per studioNot Yet Measured

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Direct survey required

Most studios do not publish enrollment publicly. On the post-launch roadmap.

Studios per million populationNot Yet Measured

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Studios joined to per-metro population data

Pending Census/equivalent population join. Coming post-launch.

Avg group class price (US)Not Yet Measured

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Studio-website scrape required

Designed for Tier-2 of the analytics dashboard, post-launch.

Methodology:Observed metrics come straight from live Supabase queries against the LODance directory. External-benchmark metrics cite the originating industry source. Modeled-estimate metrics come from published per-segment spend ranges. Survey-Based metrics await direct user research. Not-Yet-Measured metrics are explicit placeholders — we'd rather show a gap than fabricate a number. See full methodology in the section below.

Studios by Region

Where the global dance industry concentrates.

Where Dance Lives

US states interleaved with non-US countries. The US is comparable in scale to many countries combined, so treating each state as a peer region tells a more honest story.

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CountryUS state#1 region

Top Metropolitan Areas

Densest metros by studio count.

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Catalogued Dances by Genre

Number of canonical figures catalogued for this dance. Menu mirrors the Lineage of Dance. Bars are color-coded by skill level (Bronze · Silver · Gold · Platinum/Open) where applicable.

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How to read this: Each bar is one dance style; segments within each bar show how much catalog depth we have at each skill level. Sources = distinct syllabi referencing the dance. Figures = canonical named patterns catalogued. Instances = figure × syllabus × level appearances. Figures with detailed step data = figures for which we have beat-by-beat step instructions (the raw data the future Steps Engine animation product will visualize).

About this data

All numbers are queried live from LODance's directory at page-load time, then cached for one hour. Studios are aggregated from public business directories and Google Places. Events are gathered from studio websites, ICS calendar feeds, competition federations, festival/congress organizers, and direct submissions. Every event maintains source-URL provenance.

Every event candidate passes through a multi-stage automated quality gate that rejects past-dated rows, non-dance content, music-venue noise (for example, a metal-band concert booked into a venue named “Ballroom”), and entries where the assigned metro is more than 150 miles from the source studio. We treat 100% accuracy on event location/date/time as non-negotiable.

We do not yet publish industry-financial estimates (annual revenue, average lesson cost, teacher compensation) because doing so responsibly requires methodology disclosure and confidence ranges we are still building. Those will appear here once the supporting methodology is published.

Studio owner? Organizer? Researcher? Get in touch via the submissions page.

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Genre tree + dance evolution

Frequently Asked Questions

LODance's directory currently includes 8,713 dance studios across 47 countries. Each studio entry includes location, contact details, and the dance styles taught, with 8,232 of them carrying Google ratings for community trust signal.