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Modern dancer Darrin Wright often squeezes in two long rehearsals a day. He's in such demand that numerous choreographers in New York City employ him, including Susan Marshall, Terry Creach, Jane Comfort, Tami Stronach, and Bill Young/Colleen Thomas. This fall he performed in a dozen or more productions. But in the mornings, he doesn't sleep in. He rises at 6:30 A.M., slips into a blue dress shirt, fastens a gold nametag to it, and heads to his bank job.
"It's amazing that you can work with five different choreographers and still need a job," says Wright. His part-time occupation as a bank teller provides about half his yearly income and all of his health benefits. The job also yields him a retirement fund. "Most of my dance colleagues don't even know what that is," he laughs. He confesses that he'd quit the teller job if he could afford to. "It gets a little crazy."
To help pay the bills, dancers take on everything from straight-laced office positions to part-time waitress gigs. Probably the most common criterion is whether the job offers enough flexibility to pursue their passion for dancing.
"I made my intentions clear; I wasn't planning to be a bank person," says Wright, who is allowed to set his own hours as long as he informs his supervisors a month in advance. Some weeks he works 40 hours at the bank, standing for long periods in...
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