Ballet is an elite and predominantly white profession that has mirrored history. Black dancers have been historically excluded and remain severely underrepresented through controlling images, discrimination, and marginalization. As an occupation, ballet demands intensive emotional and aesthetic labor. This research relies on interviews to better understand the experiences of Black women in ballet in context. It specifically examines the ways that Black dancers negotiate two forms of labor that have typically been theorized separately: emotional and aesthetic labor. Theoretically, these findings build on and challenge conceptualizations of emotional and aesthetic labor as separately theorized social processes. In this article, I show how emotional and aesthetic labor are on dramatic display through Black ballet dancers’ workplace experiences.

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黑人芭蕾舞演员：情绪和审美劳动的管理*

芭蕾舞是一个反映历史的精英职业，主要是白人。黑人舞者在历史上一直被排除在外，并且通过控制形象、歧视和边缘化仍然严重不足。作为一种职业，芭蕾需要大量的情感和审美劳动。这项研究依靠访谈来更好地了解黑人女性在芭蕾舞中的经历。它专门研究了黑人舞者协商两种通常被分别理论化的劳动形式的方式：情感劳动和审美劳动。从理论上讲，这些发现建立在并挑战将情感和审美劳动作为单独理论化的社会过程的概念化。在本文中，我将通过黑人芭蕾舞者的工作经历展示情感和审美劳动是如何戏剧性地展示出来的。