Last updated 15 October 2026
Is your name in here? Write to hello@dancersdna.com to ask what we hold, to have it corrected, or to have it taken down. You don't need an account or a reason. A person reads every message, and we answer within one month.
Before dancersdna opens, we keep a staff-only record of professional credits on live-entertainment productions, on cruise ships and on land. It covers the people who made the shows: creators, directors, choreographers, stagers, writers, composers, designers, musical directors and named producers. On cruise ships it also covers the performers in the casts, and on land it covers performers named on the official page of the company, school or agency that engages them (a roster, cast, faculty or talent page).
It includes people who have their own website, agency or union listing, as well as people who don't.
For each person we write down:
Almost all of it comes from public sources: producers', cruise lines' and theatres' own pages, press releases, the trade press, and makers' own published lists of their work. We read them one at a time. We don't buy lists of people. A small part comes from our founder's own notes on the industry, and records the same kind of professional fact, including who casts for some productions.
Until 15 October 2026 this page said we didn't keep the names of people on land productions, or of anyone with their own professional contact route. We have changed that, and this is the change: they are now included, on the same terms as everyone else on this page.
No contact details: no email address, phone number or postal address. No date of birth. No photos. Nothing private. We may note that someone has their own website or agency, but we don't store the address. Where a public post tagged someone by their social-media name, we note that tag as part of where the credit came from.
None of these names appears anywhere the public can read. Not on a page, not in a search result, not in a list. Where our public pages mention one of these credits, they show the job, never the name. Showing a name publicly would be a separate decision. If it is ever made for you, or if we ever contact you, you will hear from us first, and you can say no.
Several thousand. About 4,000 entries as of 15 October 2026. An entry is one credit, and some name more than one person. The number grows as we read, and we update this page when it moves by more than a tenth.
When we take someone's name from somewhere other than them, the normal rule is that we tell them. There is an exception where telling each person would take a disproportionate effort, and we rely on it. This page is part of what that exception asks of us in return.
For most of these people we have no way to reach them. Finding one for each would be a far bigger job than the reading, with a real chance of writing to the wrong person.
Some people do have their own website, agency or union listing, and we haven't written to them either. Writing to thousands of people one by one, and making sure each time that it's the right person, is out of proportion to keeping a staff-only note of a credit their own industry already published. We know this is the weaker part of our position, and we'd rather say so than leave it out.
One more thing cuts against us: this information is weeks or months old, not decades.
When dancersdna opens its pilot, or on 15 October 2027 if that comes first, we will announce it to everyone: on this site, on our own social accounts, and in the industry channels where makers will see it. The announcement will say that this record exists, what is in it, and how to have your name taken down.
Only while we build the record of that part of the industry for launch. We re-check each entry against its source within 12 months of reading it, and delete it if the source has gone and we can't find another. We review the whole record every six months, first in April 2027. Any part of it with no plan to open is deleted at that review, or the reason for keeping it is written down again.
Nobody outside dancersdna receives it, and we don't sell it. The companies that host and process it for us do: our code host, our server providers, our email provider, and the AI tools we use to read and organise pages. Some of them are in the United States. Nothing is decided about anyone automatically, and we don't use this record to train AI.
Write to hello@dancersdna.com. Tell us your name and what you want. If you ask us to take your name out, we take it out of every copy we work from: the record itself, the copy our app uses, our research notes and any saved pages. We keep one short line so that we don't write your name down again. We tell you within one month that it's done.
One honest limit. Our working files keep a history of their earlier versions, and we don't rewrite that history. Your name stays in those old versions. Only our own staff can read them, and nothing is ever shown or shared from them.
If we ever say no to a request, we tell you why within the same month, and how to complain.
Legitimate interests: keeping an accurate, sourced record of who made and performed these shows, so the credit goes to the right people. A professional credit that the industry already published is about the least private thing there is about a person, and we keep nothing more than that.
Elias Schinas, in Cyprus. Write to hello@dancersdna.com.
You can ask what we hold about you, have it corrected, have it taken down, or object to us keeping it. We answer within one month, and a request to take something down is treated as the kind that cannot wait. If you think we have handled your information badly, you can complain to the Office of the Commissioner for Personal Data Protection in Cyprus: dataprotection.gov.cy.