Beyond Performance: Building a Better Future for Dancers and the Art of Dance.

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This is a 64 page document providing rigorous comparative research that documents and lluminates the issue of dancer career transition on a global basis, providing a platform for analysis, action, and advocacy.


An excerpt:

OBSERVATION #4:
Multiple strategies will be necessary to address the career transition needs of dancers
on an international scale, because the broader context in which dancers carry out their
work varies from country to country. Factors that come into play on a country-by-country
basis include the degree to which the arts are publicly or privately supported, cultural
attitudes towards the arts in general and dance in particular, the dominant dance
genres in a particular country or region, and the nature of existing worker protections in
the form of social benefit programs. Because of this variability, the global dance community
has much to learn from shared information about “promising practices,” which
can be adapted and refined to meet local conditions.

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