A 2026-os költségvetés-elemzésből
426 million Ft for dance organisations — decided by an allocator, not an audience.
A standing central operating grant to dance-arts organisations substitutes one office's judgement for the only signal that reveals what audiences value: the tickets they buy, the subscriptions they take, the donations they make.
About 106 Ft per taxpayer per year — 426 million Ft total — funds dance organisations whose continued operation depends on the allocator's preference, not on the audience they can attract.
Amit látsz — és amit nem
The seen: dance companies with stable operating funding, performances staged. The unseen: the audience revenue — tickets, subscriptions, philanthropic giving — that would tell the organisation which programmes people value and at what price, replaced by a grant that severs that connection.
Ellenvetés
"Performing arts can't survive purely on ticket sales — the economics don't work, and we'd lose important cultural organisations."
Válasz
The five-year horizon exists precisely because the economics of performing arts require time to build audience, subscription, sponsorship, and philanthropic revenue. The phase-out does not impose immediate closure — it removes the standing grant that lets organisations grow without developing an audience. Organisations that build genuine audience support survive; those sustained only by a central allocation will not have demonstrated the demand that justifies public subsidy.
Share if you think arts funding should follow audiences, not administrative preference.
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Indoklás
A direct operating grant to dance-arts organisations. This is discretionary cultural allocation in its purest form: a central transfer to specific named-genre arts organisations, with the allocator deciding which organisations, at what level, on a judgement that no price signal informs. The performing arts are the textbook subjective-valuation case — what audiences value is revealed only through ticket purchases, subscriptions, philanthropic giving, and sponsorship. A standing operating grant detaches the organisation's revenue from its audience's revealed valuation. Phase-out over five years; the protected party is the organisations and performers, who have a reliance interest and need time to build audience, subscription, sponsorship, and philanthropic revenue.
Átállási mechanizmus
Linear five-year reduction to zero. Organisations transition to ticket revenue, subscription, philanthropic giving, and sponsorship.
Érintett csoportok
Dance-arts organisations and performers; audiences accustomed to subsidised dance programming.
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