Do you want to become a Dancer? Here is some information to help point you in the right direction:
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Dance is a term for describing ways of using the body to tell stories, interpret music and express emotion.
Styles of dance include:
Even for top soloists, dance is teamwork and performing is a small, but vital part of the job. Maintaining skills and fitness in daily classes and rehearsing take up most of the time.
Dancers work in theatres, film and TV studios, nightclubs, hotels, halls and holiday resorts. Hours can be long and normally involve evenings and weekends. Touring may mean working away from home for long periods.
Dancers can earn from around £18,500, up to £32,000 or more for principal dancers.
A dancer needs:
A dance career is very competitive, and some unemployment is almost inevitable outside the large companies.
Opportunities exist in ballet, contemporary dance, musical theatre and dance in education.
Most dance performance courses have no minimum entry requirements. Many dancers start training at a young age through part-time classes, taking graded examinations. Ballet dancers must start training, at the very latest, by the age of 12 for girls and 14 for boys, while bones and joints are still flexible.
Opportunities for adults to enter dance training are very limited.
Training continues throughout a dancer's career, with even the most successful dancers attending classes daily.
Once in a dance company, promotion to soloist depends on ability, physique and luck - only a few become soloists or principal dancers. Some performers move into teaching, choreography, movement therapy or arts management.
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