183. Exploring Passion, Grit, and the Untold Stories of Corps de Ballet dancers with Dr Ruth Horowitz

What kind of dancer will make it in New York City? Do passionate dancers get taken advantage of in the professional world? Today's episode is a conversation with Dr. Ruth Horowitz, a sociologist who specifically studied recent dancers. She interviewed over 80 professionals at various levels of their career and found some really interesting results about passion, how dancers create a career by piecing together different contracts, the grit and determination it takes to make it, and how the identity of a dancer never leaves you. So if you want to know what it's like to move to New York and try to make it as a professional dancer and what kind of dancer is most likely to make it, Dr. Horowitz is here to tell you all about it with some great tools to help you reach your professional dreams. Tune in! Get Ruth's Book: Passionate Work: Choreographing a Dance Career on Amazon or at Barnes and Noble or at Stanford University Press Connect with Ruth on her Website: https://dancerscareers.com Follow Ruth on Instagram: www.instagram.com/horowitz.ruth Follow Passion for Dance: https://followthepodcast.com/passionfordance Other Episode Resources: https://chelseapierotti.com/183