After the growth: trends in the international production and distribution of the performing arts

BUYING POWER

This graph shows the impact of this on the purchasing power of the organisations (at least with respect to their Flemish subsidies). The red line shows the percent increase in the Consumer Price Index since 2001. Life became 35% more expensive between 2001 and 2014. The blue line shows the median subsidy funding of performing arts structures. In absolute figures, this declined from approximately 450,000 euro to slightly more than 300,000 euro. If we make a correction based on the Consumer Price Index, we see that median purchasing power has fallen by about 50%.

After the growth: trends in the international production and distribution of the performing arts

Published on Feb 24, 2016

Kunstenpunt/Flanders Arts Institute

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The international reputation of the Flemish performing arts is strong. In times of crisis and times of government cutbacks, they managed to maintain their production capacity by engaging more and more foreign partners. Flanders Arts Institute is mapping out this international dimension of the performing arts over the period 2001-2014. There's an increase in the number of Flemish productions performed abroad. There is, however, a downside to the story: because Flemish subsidies have been greatly reduced since 2010, companies increasingly are being forced to rely on partners (national and international) for project funding. How sustainable is this growth in the longer term?

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