About Equal Arts Micro-learning: Equal Arts is a European Cooperation Project (Erasmus KA210) designed to address gender equality in leadership and management roles across the performing arts, dance and media sectors. At its heart, the project turns real sector experience into practical digital learning tools that VET trainers and educators can use immediately.
Our Youtube channel is live, and so you can Visit to connect with our online course content from women navigating careers that were never quite built with them in mind. Our Equal Arts micro-learning series was created to name that reality and to start changing it. Bite-sized, reflective, and grounded in real experience, each module puts a woman working in the performing arts at the centre of the learning.
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Connect with us online with Unit 1. Who Leads? Women, Voice, and Leadership in the Performing Arts Focus: Sustainability & Professional Development. How do you take an artistic vision from inception to reality: a body of work that crosses borders, and still stay true to it while navigating bureaucracy and decision-making at every level?
This unit sits down with selected (Best Practices, Spain) Jenny Vila, a creative producer, lighting designer, and founder of an independent physical theatre company based in Majorca, Spain. Across more than 25 years touring Europe, Australia, and beyond, she’s worked inside a sector that routinely places women in supporting roles, producing, administrating, enabling, while decision-making and credit flow elsewhere.
Jenny Vila Story (Spain) Jenny Vila story raises questions that reach past the stage and rehearsal room: who gets to lead in the performing arts. What it costs to find your own voice inside structures not built for you, and what it means to keep going when passion alone doesn’t pay the bills.
Why Mirco-learning, Equal Arts?
Micro-learning works because it meets people where they are whether busy, or often self-employed, moving between projects and cities. But what makes this series a genuine best practice isn’t the format, it’s the source: Real Testimonies from women who’ve lived the leadership gaps, the Invisible Labour, and the Burnout that so much VET provision in the arts never names, let alone addresses. By centering lived experience over abstract theory, Equal Arts gives learners something rarer than advice, it gives recognition. And recognition is often the first step toward the systemic change these units are quietly asking for. Listen, Learn and Recognise.
“Equal Arts Unlocked” Live Webinar (Project Equal Arts is giving women in the performing arts the stage, the spotlight, and the seat at the table they’ve always deserved). From 15th September 2026, Equal Arts is going live with a three-part webinar series on Dance, Theatre, and the Media.
Part 1: Skill Up Success and Opportunity Female Leadership, runs Tuesday 15th September, 5–6pm CET, in Italian/English.
Part 2: InDance International’s “Dance Longer, Grow Stronger: Building a Sustainable Career in Dance,” follows on Thursday 17th September, 6–7pm CET, in English/Spanish.
Part 3: turns the spotlight on Bruiser Theatre Company with Promoting Work Theatre: Beyond the Spotlight, a livestreamed panel discussion airing Tuesday 22nd September, 4–5pm (Irish Standard Time/BST) in English on YouTube, and Facebook Live. Full details to follow soon.
Inquiries Email: equalarts@indanceinternational.com
Equal Arts is Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor EACEA can be held responsible for them.
