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Dancers

Perform dances. May perform on stage, for broadcasting, or for video recording.

Sample of reported job titles:
Ballerina, Ballet Company Member, Ballet Dancer, Ballet Soloist, Belly Dancer, Company Dancer, Dancer, Latin Dancer, Performing Artist, Soloist Dancer

Occupation-Specific Information

Tasks

  • Train, exercise, and attend dance classes to maintain high levels of technical proficiency, physical ability, and physical fitness.
  • Study and practice dance moves required in roles.
  • Harmonize body movements to rhythm of musical accompaniment.
  • Perform classical, modern, or acrobatic dances in productions, expressing stories, rhythm, and sound with their bodies.
  • Collaborate with choreographers to refine or modify dance steps.

Technology Skills

  • Electronic mail software:Microsoft Outlook
  • Filesystem software:Samba
  • Graphics or photo imaging software:Adobe Systems Adobe Photoshop
    ,    Choreography software
  • Information retrieval or search software:Pinterest
  • Internet browser software:Web browser software

Occupational Requirements

Work Activities

  • Performing General Physical Activities:Performing physical activities that require considerable use of your arms and legs and moving your whole body, such as climbing, lifting, balancing, walking, stooping, and handling materials.
  • Getting Information:Observing, receiving, and otherwise obtaining information from all relevant sources.
  • Performing for or Working Directly with the Public:Performing for people or dealing directly with the public. This includes serving customers in restaurants and stores, and receiving clients or guests.
  • Establishing and Maintaining Interpersonal Relationships:Developing constructive and cooperative working relationships with others, and maintaining them over time.
  • Thinking Creatively:Developing, designing, or creating new applications, ideas, relationships, systems, or products, including artistic contributions.

Detailed Work Activities

  • Audition for roles.
  • Choreograph dances.
  • Entertain public with comedic or dramatic performances.
  • Monitor current trends.
  • Perform dances.

Work Context

  • Physical Proximity:91% responded"Very close (near touching)"
  • Contact With Others:85% responded"Constant contact with others"
  • Face-to-Face Discussions:84% responded"Every day"
  • Indoors, Environmentally Controlled:84% responded"Every day"
  • Spend Time Bending or Twisting the Body:76% responded"Continually or almost continually"

Worker Requirements

Skills

  • Active Listening:Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times.

Knowledge

  • Fine Arts:Knowledge of the theory and techniques required to compose, produce, and perform works of music, dance, visual arts, drama, and sculpture.
  • English Language:Knowledge of the structure and content of the English language including the meaning and spelling of words, rules of composition, and grammar.

Education

How much education does a new hire need to perform a job in this occupation? Respondents said:
  • 45%
    High School Diploma - or the equivalent (for example, GED)
  • 34%
    Less than a High School Diploma
  • 14%
    Post-Secondary Certificate - awarded for training completed after high school (for example, in agriculture or natural resources, computer services, personal or culinary services, engineering technologies, healthcare, construction trades, mechanic and repair technologies, or precision production)
  • 7%
    Some College Courses

Worker Characteristics

Abilities

  • Gross Body Coordination:The ability to coordinate the movement of your arms, legs, and torso together when the whole body is in motion.
  • Extent Flexibility:The ability to bend, stretch, twist, or reach with your body, arms, and/or legs.
  • Dynamic Strength:The ability to exert muscle force repeatedly or continuously over time. This involves muscular endurance and resistance to muscle fatigue.
  • Stamina:The ability to exert yourself physically over long periods of time without getting winded or out of breath.
  • Trunk Strength:The ability to use your abdominal and lower back muscles to support part of the body repeatedly or continuously over time without "giving out" or fatiguing.

Interests

  • Artistic:Artistic occupations frequently involve working with forms, designs and patterns. They often require self-expression and the work can be done without following a clear set of rules.
  • Realistic:Realistic occupations frequently involve work activities that include practical, hands-on problems and solutions. They often deal with plants, animals, and real-world materials like wood, tools, and machinery. Many of the occupations require working outside, and do not involve a lot of paperwork or working closely with others.

Work Values

  • Achievement:Occupations that satisfy this work value are results oriented and allow employees to use their strongest abilities, giving them a feeling of accomplishment. Corresponding needs are Ability Utilization and Achievement.
  • Relationships:Occupations that satisfy this work value allow employees to provide service to others and work with co-workers in a friendly non-competitive environment. Corresponding needs are Co-workers, Moral Values and Social Service.
  • Working Conditions:Occupations that satisfy this work value offer job security and good working conditions. Corresponding needs are Activity, Compensation, Independence, Security, Variety and Working Conditions.

Work Styles

  • Achievement/Effort:Job requires establishing and maintaining personally challenging achievement goals and exerting effort toward mastering tasks.
  • Persistence:Job requires persistence in the face of obstacles.
  • Cooperation:Job requires being pleasant with others on the job and displaying a good-natured, cooperative attitude.
  • Attention to Detail:Job requires being careful about detail and thorough in completing work tasks.
  • Initiative:Job requires a willingness to take on responsibilities and challenges.
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