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Labor pains: a survey.

Publication: Dance Magazine
Publication Date: 01-MAY-05
Format: Online - approximately 682 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

Article Excerpt
As dancers become more concerned with their working conditions, salary inequities, and contracted weeks of work, unions have played an important role in negotiating and resolving disputes between management and dancers. Several issues have cropped up in recent months.

* In December, all 21 members of non-union Ballet Concierto de Puerto Rico walked out of scheduled performances of The Nutcracker because of unpaid salaries and the management's refusal to open its books. The company contacted four laid-off members of Dance Theatre of Harlem--Dionne Figgins, Naimah Willoughby, Mark Burns, and Ebony Haswell--to replace dancers in principal roles. According to Figgins, a representative...

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