Philadelphia is home to more than 40 performing dance companies and 2,000 professional dancers. To help promote Philadelphia as "an independent dance city with a wide-open future" Philadelphia Dances was produced as a supplement to Dance Magazine, January 2004. It was sponsored by the Philadelphia Fringe Festival with support from the Greater Philadelphia Tourism and Marketing Corporation. It also contains a calendar of the 2004 season, which was coordinated by Dance Advance.