Read Part I of Lightsey Darst’s controversial series in the HuffingtonPost which explains why dancers have to sleep with wealthy patrons in order to survive
and Part II: Why most dance companies are forced to put on schlocky productions to pay the light bills
and Part III: Does art require sacrifice? Or is there something more sinister going on?
Here is one dancer’s feisty retort (and Ballet to the People’s two-cents-worth in Comments)