Career options for a dancer
Carolina Cortez
Dance critic
-Dance critics are responsible for attending live dance performances and publishing and broadcasting reviews of those dance performances.
what formal training is required
-You need a broad educational background
-A degree in dance
Job market and what is the average salary
-Median annual wage $33,020
-Median hourly wage $15.88
what characteristics does a person in profession need
-Good critics have an insatiable curiosity about the arts and must have the desire to learn everything they can about the history of the performing arts.
Identify skills and qualities leading to success in dance
-The ability to write well, communicate clearly and be sympathetically as well as adapting particular leadership of publication. Lastly, you must be able to write fast
Choreography
-Create dances or interpretations of existing dances
-choose the music that will accompany a dance
-audition dancers for a role in a show or withing a dance company
Formal training and required education
-High school and sometimes even a bachelors degree
-long term and on the job training
Job market and average salary
-$15.87 per hour
-with college degree, up to $75,300 annually
What characteristics does a person have to have
-Creativity
-Discipline
-Leadership
Identify skills and qualities leading to success
-Patience and willingness
Dance teacher
-Train and develop their pupils in all types of dance
-Work with individuals and all sorts of ages
-Teaching the theory of dance
-Designing dance pieces and performances
formal training and required education
-Teaching degree
-A major or minor in dance
Job market and average salary
-Median salary pay as of 2013 is about $35,500
-predicted that jobs for self-enriched teachers in general would expand by 14% through 2022.
what characteristics does a person have to have
-Charisma and willingness
Identify skills and qualities leading to success
-Good practical ability in dance and music
-An understanding of health and safety to prevent injury
-Patience
-Good communication and people skills
-Ability to control groups of pupils
Sources
- https://nationalcareersservice.direct.gov.uk/advice/planning/jobprofiles/Pages/danceteacher.aspx
- http://study.com/articles/How_to_Become_a_Dance_Teacher_Step-By-Step_Career_Guide.html
- http://study.com/articles/How_to_Become_a_Choreographer_Education_and_Career_Roadmap.html
- http://www.becomeopedia.com/how-to/become-a-dance-choreographer.php
- http://www.academicinvest.com/arts-careers/dance-careers/how-to-become-a-dance-critic