Additionally, youth performing for youth warrants more attention. As pre-professional training programs place their students in front of young audiences, youth benefit from seeing pre-professional artists as role models. This touring, presenting and outreach activity was not captured in this report and it warrants more study.
Finally, there is a need to better share information and data across the sector in Canada. This report could serve as a benchmark to track future progress. There needs to be effective collaboration between public funders and dance networks to establish a descriptive, statistical and financial databank. As well, more qualitative research should be done in Canada, more specifically on a longitudinal approach to complement the research done internationally: we have enough activities, players and tools available to map over a number of years the impact of dance for young audiences on the physical, mental, social and artistic well being of youth throughout their lives.