TAXIDANCER
Taxi dancer
A taxi dancer is a paid dance partner in a partner dance. Taxi dancers are hired to dance with their customers on a dance-by-dance basis. When a patron presented a ticket to a taxi dancer, she would dance with him for the length of a single song. The taxi dancers would earn a commission on every dance ticket earned. Taxi dancers typically received a portion of the ticket price as salary; the rest paid for the orchestra, dance hall, and operating expenses. The "ticket-a-dance" system was the centerpiece of the taxi dance halls where the taxi dancers worked. Although they only worked a few hours a night, they frequently made two to three times the salary ...The above text is a snippet from Wikipedia: Taxi dancer
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