NO CHILD EXPLOITED
During the last decade, there has been a cultural shift from healthy educational children’s dance to harmful hypersexualized children’s dance by using adult costumes, sexually suggestive choreography, and music with inappropriate sexual themes and/or lyrics. Our organization is dedicated to raising awareness and providing dance educators, parents, and concerned adults with the resources and education needed to take action and end this kind of exploitation occurring through hypersexualization of children in dance.
DA:NCE Goals
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To protect children from hypersexualization in adult costumes, choreography and music, and to protect the art of dance
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To create free research materials to give adults informed choices about the differences between healthy or harmful dance
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To engage in respectful conversations about hypersexualization without shaming/demonizing adults or dance studios so that there is a path for reflection and changed perspectives
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To communicate the hypersexualization of children in dance and its connection to the public health issue of pornography with bipartisan engagement
Free Resources for Parents and Concerned Adults
As awareness grows, dance educators, parents and concerned citizens are speaking out against this cultural shift toward normalizing the hypersexualization of children in dance. Free resources to educate and grow awareness are available at danceawareness.com, including:
• Video library highlighting the damaging effects of hypersexualized children’s dance
• Educational PowerPoints and in-depth videos for people to use in their outreach efforts
• Resources for parents to find and select healthy, age-appropriate dance studios
• An educational and actionable newsletter, sent only three times per year, as well as an engaging eBook that explains the problem and offers solutions
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