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Keep Dancers’ Alliance Rates Alive
Dancers' Alliance is actively adjusting to the current business climate. Music videos are now creating revenue and dancers are more important to pop culture than ever before. As a result, we adamantly uphold our rates and conditions for music video productions of a standard budget and demand that dancers do not work for lower rates on these projects. Our rates must reflect our relevance in today's media.
However, the music industry is economically fragile, and there are a growing number of music video productions with little to no budget. Productions that are certified low-budget may contact the dance agencies and ask to negotiate adjusted rates that best suit the budget, the amount of work, and the number of dancers needed. By adjusting the work hours to reflect lower rates, limiting usage of content, and negotiating standard protections, DA has been dedicated to making sure these low-budget productions still provide work for dancers while maintaining proper protection.
We must stay strong as a community!!!!
Work can sometimes be hard to come by, but we must stick together as a community to ensure the best possible work conditions and opportunities. D.A. rules mean nothing without the dance community's commitment to supporting them. Working for less than D.A. minimums undermines future work for all dancers. For example, if a producer thinks he can hire dancers for $200, it will forever be in that producer's mind that that's what dancers cost. By accepting less than D.A. guidelines you are doing yourself and your fellow working dancers a disservice, because that producer will probably never agree to paying us the wages we deserve.
Our mission is to be the unified voice of the national dance community and to improve the rights and careers of every working dancer through education and solidarity. We negotiate equitable rates and working conditions for professional dancers in non-union work and actively represent the dance community in union proposals and committees.
