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1062147 NLFXXX10.1177/10957960211062147New Labor ForumWright research-article2021 The People vs. the Culture Elite New Labor Forum 2022, Vol. 31(1) 28 –33 Art Is Work: Copyright © 2021, The Murphy Institute, CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies Article reuse guidelines: A Dancer’s Reflection sagepub.com/journals-permissions https://doi.org/10.1177/10957960211062147 DOI: 10.1177/10957960211062147 journals.sagepub.com/home/nlf Megan Wright Keywords dance, capitalism, contingent workers, labor, arts workers, philanthropy In September 2019, I was in an open-air market had shown up to vie for a single spot at the most in Berlin having a small crisis about the state of recent audition. The competition was so fierce my career. I’d just met a dancer who had been that the company could get away with offering employed by a government-funded dance com- “apprenticeships” that paid $100 a week and pany in Sweden. Like all dancers in the com- have dancers chomping at the bit for them. pany, he’d had a contract that lasted until age I was lucky to have my job. But that hadn’t forty-five—for dancers, a lifetime and then stopped me from thinking that even by American some. At that point, he’d retired, pension in standards it could be better. Earlier that year, I’d hand, to an island in the
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Published: Jan 1, 2022
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