Professional dancers open up about their struggles and challenges


[post_page_title]When you scramble to get by in the off-season[/post_page_title]
Dancing is one of the most grueling things you could do short of making cellphones in a sweatshop somewhere. When it’s on, it’s all the way on – during a regular on-season, dancers typically work for 32 straight weeks and perform in 80 shows.

When you scramble to get by in the off-season

That’s six days of work, with only one day off. Then you have the off-season, when you’re not working at all. Great, right? Wrong. You still have to eat, leaving you to either do seasonal work in some other field or take gigs dancing somewhere else. Hey, pirouettes won’t keep the lights on.

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