The job market might be good, but new grads aiming for a career in dance still face limited options. Welcome to the arts gig economy.
They studied other forms of dance like ballroom and Bollywood, they worked on improvisational techniques, and in the final two years they specialized in performance or choreography. They thought deeply about how their art would impact society.
“We’re in a gig economy,” Folkes-Stone, 22, said. “Dancers also now represent that, in that they are able to jump into many different contexts and work with different people.”Mims will continue making her own art, tackling issues around mass incarceration. She plans to fund her art through grants and with commercial gigs, which have included work as a backup dancer.
Even those who join a company, “you kind of accept the fact that you’re always going to be living paycheck to paycheck,” Schiffner said. “But it is something that if you choose that life, you have to love it that much that you’re willing to work for next to nothing.”widely. Even coveted positions with a midsize dance company can top out at around $700 a week for a season of performances.
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