Question 36923 — arts and entertainment

Summary

Mr. Grégory Labille draws the attention of the Minister of Culture to the situation in the dance sector. Following several interviews with the Union Dance Unions (UDS), Mr. MP wishes to alert it to the specificity of the difficulties of the dance sector, which suffers from support measures unsuited to its diversity, its seasonality and the structure of its turnover. With more than 6 million practitioners and 2.7 million of jobs in France in 2019, the dance sector is a very diverse cultural sector. It includes young intermittent workers, self-employed people, training institutes and private companies. The dance sector also has a particular seasonality which lasts for the vast majority from the month of September of the year n to the month of June n + 1. The sources of income mainly come from memberships and income shows organized during the beginning of summer. However, memberships fell by 40% in 2020 compared to 2019 and shows were canceled due to the pandemic. Support measures were quickly taken by the Government to support this sector via solidarity funds as well as partial unemployment, but it is clear that additional, more precise measures adapted to the particularity of this sector must be made. The UDS particularly insisted on two short-term priority measures: firstly, improve the coherence and harmonization of administrative measures taken in the territory for the dance sector, secondly, integrate the dance sector into the recovery plan to compensate for the drop in membership which will continue in 2022 and 2023. On improving coherence and harmonization administrative measures taken in the territory for the dance sector, the UDS deplores the unilaterality of the measures, the lack of consultation preliminary to their enactment and their incessant modification. Particularly the three decrees (that no. 2020-1310 of October 29, 2020 prescribing the general measures necessary to deal with the covid-19 epidemic within the framework of the state of health emergency, that of December 14, 2020 and that n° 2021-173 of February 17, 2021 modifying decrees n° 2020-1262 of October 16, 2020 and n° 2020-1310 of October 29, 2020 prescribing the general measures necessary to deal with the covid-19 epidemic within the framework of the state of health emergency) were very poorly perceived by both the actors in this sector as well as by administrations. The UDS reports that the payment of solidarity funds is very different depending on the regions and that opening authorizations are also very linked to the arbitrariness of the prefect without a homogenization of conditions at the national level. The UDS therefore requests that better harmonization of these measures and instructions be initiated by the Government to respond to this administrative imbroglio. Concerning the integration of the dance sector into the recovery plan in order to compensate for the drop in membership, the UDS estimates that part of these memberships will be recovered in September 2022 from the younger public but that the majority of adult members will not return for several years. The UDS then asks that the dance sector be largely integrated into the recovery plan in order to compensate for the loss of memberships. In addition, the situation of young businesses and self-employed people who are not eligible for the solidarity fund and the partial unemployment is particularly alarming. He therefore asks whether additional measures to respond to the issues raised by the UDS are planned.

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