People love the art of dance. The ability to move and communicate at the heart level is stirring. Dance is effective communication that transforms. Dance is powerful.

Over the course of the last decade, dance for young children, particularly little girls, has changed. Alarmingly, young girls are becoming increasingly sexualized through dance. If you have recently attended a dance recital or viewed any one of many reality shows on television, you have no doubt viewed choreography that exploits and sexualizes children, using sexy moves, adult costumes, and mature, sexually charged songs to make little girls look and act like mature women.

Let’s stop this trend.

ECPAT-USA, the leading policy organization fighting the Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children (CSEC), has agreed to support this petition. Morality in Media and Porn Harms are also national supporting organizations. In addition to signing the petition, to make a difference at your local level, you can access our online toolkit at www.soultosolechoreography.org/toolkit to start a hardcopy petition in your own community.

Together, we can facilitate change and bring an end to the sexualization of girls under 12 through dance and costumes.