Covers strategies including creating a contract, practicing prompt invoicing, pressuring clients to pay, filing a complaint, and taking legal action to ensure payment.

Disrupting Harm in Dance is a curriculum as much about reimagining the future as it is about the practices and tools that can be implemented immediately by anyone or any institution. This is an online self-directed course offering information and tools for dancers, performers, and adjacent professionals to work more safely together.

In participatory budgeting, community members decide together how public funds are allocated and spent in their communities. This article talks through the processes, challenges, and opportunities of PB.

If you’re looking for your first Broadway contract, getting your foot in the door is tricky. Auditions are structured to prioritize members of the Actors’ Equity Association, the union for stage professionals. There are several ways to become a member, but in the meantime, dancers face serious challenges. By Haley Hilton

We have created a brochure aimed at informing persons, especially persons with mental disabilities, of their voting rights, protections, and options! Translated versions of the brochure are available in Chinese, Hindi, Ilocano, Korean, Marshallese, Tagalog, Tongan, and Vietnamese.

There is a tremendous amount of uncertainty in today’s immigration enforcement environment. Not knowing what you can expect for your future, or the futures of your family and friends, is stressful. The information below provides tips for managing the emotional and spiritual well-being of yourself and others.

The siren call of a nonunion gig can be tempting—even for those who have already earned their coveted SAG-AFTRA card. But before you cross that line, think again. Working “off the card” on nonunion projects is a violation that could jeopardize your entire career. By Diep Tran

Territory acknowledgement is a way that people insert an awareness of Indigenous presence and land rights in everyday life. This is often done at the beginning of ceremonies, lectures, or any public event. It can be a subtle way to recognize the history of colonialism and a need for change in settler colonial societies.

Two hundred fifty years of slavery. Ninety years of Jim Crow. Sixty years of separate but equal. Thirty-five years of racist housing policy. Until we reckon with our compounding moral debts, America will never be whole.

The Dancers Amplified podcast is a platform where dancers’ voices are heard. We seek to center the marginalized and amplify the voices of those that have been suppressed for far too long. Our work is as alive as the lives it affects. We are motivators and activators leading the dance world towards an equitable, diverse, and inclusive future, accessible and benefitting all.

The Diversity Style Guide is a resource to help journalists and other media professionals cover a complex, multicultural world with accuracy, authority and sensitivity. The guide contains more than 700 terms related to race/ethnicity, disability, immigration, sexuality and gender identity, drugs and alcohol, and geography.

What is an anti-racist reading list for? We talk with Lauren Michele Jackson, an Assistant Professor of English at Northwestern University, and the author of White Negroes, about the limitations of such listshttps://www.vulture.com/2020/06/anti-racist-reading-lists-what-are-they-for.html