OK, so I'm being deliberately provocative.
I have been expecting the dance sector to be slow to fully recover from Covid - which, as I write is showing itself to be far from over and still full of unwelcome surprises.
But it feels like I am now noticing a new phenomenon: Manchester (and Salford) seems to be actually repulsing dance.
Either this or there is a complete failure in dance programming within the twin cities or a complete collapse in confidence in booking dance into the city.
Maybe the city now has a unfillable space between large-scale populism and small-scale touring. There is no middle. Where is the medium-scale touring and why is so much of it going elsewhere? Is this a funding or audience-development issue?
Obviously, The Lowry is still getting Rambert. Birmingham Royal Ballet, Matthew Bourne and Northern Ballet and some other key regional touring players and HOME is boldly flying the flag for dance by almost literally only booking Hofesh Shechter.
But in recent weeks BalletBoyz, Phoenix Dance Theatre and National Dance Company Wales have all been booked in Huddersfield and/or Chester - and Dance Consortium are still doing their every-other-tour trick of missing The Lowry meaning we don't get NDT2 next year.