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So, here's something I've started to work on - traveling around North America and picking everyone's brains about how they see themselves in their community, as well as listening to Chicago community ideas and concerns, I thought I'd take a stab at creating something that can visually illustrate how people are feeling about their efforts -vs- reward within burlesque.

I hope this might be a good jumping off point in creating a conversation about how payment might correlate to experience and celebrity within the burlesque community, both locally & nationally. It also proposes MINIMUM show rates that people within a tier should realistically be charging, but they are based on current Chicago rates.

Also, this isn't a checklist, so much as a basis of determining which category best describes you - it's not intended to say "if you don't have ABC, you aren't an XYZ performer." It's trying to describe the things that we use/dismiss to determine which tier we percieve ourselves and others belonging to. In other words, not every quality may be necessary to put self/others into a certain category.

Got critique or feedback? It's very welcome!


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