Dance Awareness: No Child Exploited
About Us
Over the last decade, children have become increasingly hypersexualized through dance at younger and younger ages. The APA report on ‘The Sexualization of Girls' reveals the negative effects sexualized messages are having on the healthy development of children in adult costumes, choreography & music.
DA:NCE seeks to brings education and awareness to identify and understand the cultural shift from healthy, age appropriate children’s dance to harmful, hypersexualized children’s dance. This shift is connected to 3 words: the internet, the media and the pornography industry. DA:NCE evidence-based resources show how children’s hypersexualized dance grooms children for commodification, for the financial benefit of adults who own and manage corporate business entities, and for the normalization of CSAM(child sexual abuse material).
Mission: To bring international awareness and education to stop the exploitation through hypersexualization of children in dance.
Vision: To promote the art of dance and its benefits to children by creating educational materials that advocate for their safety and protection in all dance environments.
Children deserve to learn and experience the gift of dance in safe environments that do not sexualize and/or exploit them.
Children deserve to love dance, their bodies, and themselves.
Children deserve to be protected from sexual exploitation.
