Why dancers in America cannot earn a living wage

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)

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