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** Dance Careering in the US with Artist-in-Residence Jamal Story

Part 2: Money and Ethics
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** Thursday, March 7
3:30 pm ET/2:30 pm CT/12:30 pm PT
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Join the Entertainment Community Fund for our second of three webinars with Artist-in-Residence Jamal Story on Dance Careering in the US. Each part of the series will include a Q&A session.

During Part 2: Money and Ethics Jamal shares his knowledge and experience in managing a varied career in dance with Career Counselor Supervisor Patch Schwadron.

Topics of discussion will include:
* How do we assess worth relative to employer/gig fit/financial capacity?
* How can we be both respectable and fair as individuals representing an industry of professionals?
* What practices inside your business are good for the field and for collective thinking?
* Ethics of Global Rule 1 and what non-jurisdictional vs. covered work is
* Injury management/prevention
* Portfolio gathering and leveraging relationships

About Jamal Story

A Los Angeles native, Jamal began serious training at the Lula Washington Dance Theatre. He holds dual degrees in Dance Performance and TV/Radio Communications from Southern Methodist University in Dallas, where he performed with Dallas Black Dance Theatre and the Fort Worth/Dallas Ballet, among others.

Jamal has danced with Donald Byrd/the Group, Madonna’s 2001 Drowned World Tour, Complexions and (as an aerialist and dancer) Cher’s Living Proof: The Farewell Tour. He has since performed in The Color Purple and Motown: The Musical on Broadway, serving as a dance captain on both.

An avid choreographer, Jamal has set works on several companies, taught as a full-time professor ad interim at the University of Missouri Kansas City and co-chairs the SAG-AFTRA National Dancers Committee. Jamal continues his advocacy for educating young artists about changing the landscape of dance and has written two books, 12:34 and Toss in the Ether. Both are available on his website, jamalstory.com.

Jamal also serves as one-third of the host panel for Beyond the Thread, an online forum dedicated to unpacking and deconstructing conversations that happen on social media threads in a more conversational way.
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This program is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.

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