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The female dancer's body has been the heart of most ideological stakes underlying the will to depart from academism. Departing from the model of the classical dancer, the contemporary dancer seems to have freed herself from the physical and moral constraints particularly imposed in training institutions. However, the enquiry shows that a stereotyped female body model continues to be imposed in other ways. The labor market of contemporary dance thus reveals the discrepancy between the ideological speech akin to the field of contemporary dance (multiple female physiques allowed to dance, prime interest in the 'singularity' of the individual) and the requirements to obtain a job on the labor market of contemporary dance. Finally, the resonance of job constraints in the intimate field (choice of partner, maternity) illustrates the ambiguity of a profession that is considered like "liberation" and "vocation."