Homework

Homework: extended reading dance careers: 

• Crucial to have a good level of training and several different skills e.g. Teaching in administration or talent. 

Teaching: 

Many go from a performance-based career to then a teaching career as a performance career is often short-lived and due to the demand for such a highly competitive industry, they no longer become the best option. You can teach in the private sector which is your more classical dance technique classes or school level education like GCSE or A level dance. Private dance teachers often have other qualifications like ISTD or RAD. Teaching in schools requires a BA honors. 

 

• Other progression careers are choreographer, dance teacher, community dance practitioner, costume and set designer, dance performer, culture and dance officer, dance filmmaker, dance journalist, dance producer, dance photographer. Ect.  

• Dance and costume design, you could build your way up without a degree but also a lot of experience and connections possibly even a higher national diploma.  

 

The advice I would give to a young person wanting a career in dance is to continue with dance training especially the basics like ballet. Also, to research what type of dance you want to do weather is musical theatre and performance or it's more commercials roles or teacher, and then choose the adequate college/ uni you need to acquire those qualifications. Build connections with people in dance that can direct you. 

 

A training pathway that a professional dancer might have taken is dance training up until 16 then a level 3 diploma in dance and at 18 then go onto places Rambert which is a conservatoire and train with the elitist level people which is all vocational training. They would then get put in touch with an agent or get scouted and would go into, for example, the royal ballet productions such as the nutcracker. Here they would build up a repertoire with the company and then either stay or move to another dance company around the world. Possibly switching more into more of a choreographic route after being a performer.