Originally published as a special issue of Research in Dance Education, now with an added chapter, this text acknowledges and celebrates the increasingly diverse careers and employment networks in which dance professionals and dance educators are engaged.

Angela Pickard is Reader in Dance Education and Subject Lead for Dance Education and Dance (BA), at Canterbury Christ Church University, UK. She is also Editor in Chief for the journal Research in Dance Education.

Doug Risner is Distinguished Faculty Fellow, Professor of Dance, and Director for the MA in Dance Teaching Artistry program at Wayne State University, US.

Introduction: Dance and Work, Special Issue

1. Embodying Precarity, Pain and Perfection: Young Dancers Commitment to the Ballet Body as Aesthetic Project

2. Gaga as Embodied Research

3. Creative and Embodied Methods to Tech Reflections and Support Students Learning

4. Rebalancing Dance Curricula Through Repurposing Black Dance Aesthetics

5. WhoLoDancE: Digital Tools and the Dance Learning Environment

6. A Delicate Balance: How Postsecondary Dance Faculty in the United States Perceive

Themselves Negotiating Responsibilities Expected for Tenure

7. Body Trouble: Sexual Harassment and Worker Abuse in Musical Theater Dance Employment