The Creative Economy generates about 3 percent of world GDP and 1 percent of jobs of the economically active population, according to a 2015 UNESCO s research. From the industries that compose this economy sector, the Performing Arts subsector, in which dance is embedded, stands out as the largest source of income for USA, Australia, Russia and China. In Brazil, investments in the dance segment is still embryonic and low expressiveness. In this context, dance, which has been professionalized for almost 200 years with classical ballet, seeks ways to attract and keep the public. For that, marketing communication is fundamental, mainly through the meanings transferred to consumption and the consumption experiences represented in its discourse. This work identifies the approximations and deviations in the consumption meanings enunciated in the discourses of the consumers of dance performances and in the marketing communication of the dance companies. For that, 61 posters, 46 synopses, 5 institutional sites and interviews with 10 frequent audience members of classical and contemporary dance was analyzed based on the theoretical-methodological tool of the French discursive semiotics. Six different themes were found in each discourse. The consumption axiology proposed by Floch (1991) was used to show the meanings of consumption found in each of them. The results of the research, which may support managerial decisions of dance company managers, indicate a certain distance from critical, practical and utopian valuations and an approximation in the ludic valuation of dance performances.