Tag: freelance dancer

Eleni Loving lunging while holding a microphone on stage. The lighting is dark and she is wearing a tank top with yellow pants

From Gibney Company to “Sleep No More,” Contemporary Dancer Eleni Loving Is Driven by Curiosity

Eleni Loving unspools movement like a magic trick. Dancing Twyla Tharp’s percussive The Fugue (1970/2024) with Gibney Company, she captures the work’s airy groundedness with precise musicality and a deadpan delivery. In Jermaine Spivey and Spenser Theberge’s Remains, she is a marionette who has cut her own strings, her gestures at once precisely calibrated and wholly in-the-moment, both […]

Here's How 3 Dancers Make #FreelanceLife Work

More and more frequently, dancers are embracing their entrepreneurial spirit and eschewing the stability of a company paycheck for the creative freedom of freelance life. Some have been in full-time companies—or could be—but many are choosing to be their own bosses instead. Of course, freelancing is not without its challenges. Dancers are at greater risk […]