There are many different careers in dance such as:
• Musical theatre
• Dance teacher
• Choreologist
• Dance reviewer
• Dance researcher
• Costume designer
• Dancer (performer in a company)
• Choreographer
• Marketer for a dance company
• Dance company director
• Biokineticist
• Physiotherapist
• Hair and makeup artist
• Shoe and foot specialist
• Trainer or body conditioning instructor
• Pianist/ musician
• Set designer
• Lighting designer
• Dance photographer or videographer
• Stage manager
Running a dance company
The first thing one has to do when running a dance company, is start it. Before starting any company, one should have a business plan in which the aim, finances and goals of your company are decided. After adequate facilities
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Once you find an inspiration for your choreography, you need to find a piece of music that you want to choreograph your dance to that is well suited to your theme or inspiration. After finding a piece of music to choreograph your dance to, you would need to decide on your cast and the amount of people you want to dance in your choreography. After you have a definite cast and music, you can begin choreographing. Whilst choreographing one must take into consideration space, tempo, dynamics, interaction between dancers, shape and form, and patterns and the overall message one is aiming to …show more content…
They are either approached by the directors of the production, show or film to make a costume to fit the character the actor is playing, or they are approached by dancers to make a costume for a competition.
Costume designers could be employed by a dance company to design and make costumes for shows or productions the company is producing.
There are many institutes that offer a degree in fashion design from which you can specialise in costume design, namely:
In order to pursue a career as a costume designer, you would need to complete the above mentioned degree, as well as have sufficient funding for a design studio to make costumes in as well as equipment such as a sewing machine, thread, needles etc.
Musical Theatre performer:
Musical theatre performers are entertainers who sing, dance, and act in productions, pantomimes, musicals, films and TV shows. A diploma in Musical Theatre can be completed at several colleges and institutions,
Jazz dance today is presented in many different forms. Jazz history and famous jazz dancers and choreographers have helped influenced what we know today, as jazz dance. It is incorporated in an assortment of styles including, hip hop and Broadway, Jazz dance today has its own movement, while there trendy modern types of jazz, traditional jazz never goes out of style. Over the years, jazz dance has become popular in the media and can be found in music videos, television, movies, and commercials. Jazz dance is always changing with the time periods, and can be found in social dance, musical theater, dance schools, and night clubs.
Indigenous folk culture applies to where music has its origins and where it came from. It’s something that applies to the native people that created the music.
For the dancer, music and choreography are paramount. The music guides the dancer, and the moves express the music. However, the dance has to start from somewhere.
Do you remember the first time you danced? Now think about that for a minute, really think. I’m not talking about the first time you slow danced awkwardly with someone at a school dance, I’m talking about really dancing. Maybe you danced when you were accepted to college, or when you got an A on a test in a class you struggle in. Dancing isn’t something you force, it’s something you let overcome you and allow to happen. When you are really enjoying dancing you are allowing the music to flow through you. There is so many different styles and techniques when it comes to professionally dancing. You have your roots of all styles being jazz and ballet which stem to become hip hop and tap, or a more
Sun dace is a dance performed by the Lakota people who belongs to the Native American cultures such as the plains. The sun dance is one of the most important religious ceremonies for the pains Indian. The North American Indians preform this dance in honor of the sun, to prove bravery by overcoming pain, and insure the life of the people for another year. It shows continuity between life and death. Indians believe that there is no true end of life. They believe in rebirth and the cycle of symbolic true deaths. According to Jordan Paper in his book “Native North American Religious Traditions Dancing for Life.” The ceremony brings the community together, heal the sick and renew social harmony. To Indians, dancing is how they
Humans have expressed thoughts and emotions through movement long before the development of speech. However, the origins of ballet can be traced back specifically to the Renaissance period and the early court dances in France and Italy. Any celebratory occasion, such as the birth of an heir or an influential marriage would call for social court dancing. All ladies and gentlemen of the court learned these rather intricate dances as part of their grooming for society. Around the 1400s, as the court dances became more detailed and complicated, it became necessary to formally codify these dances to maintain consistency. Special dance instructors or “Ballet Masters” began to appear. These men were highly revered and considered to be the finest dance teachers. They also served as dance makers or choreographers, creating dances that were used throughout Europe. King Louis XIV had a profound influence on the progression of ballet. Not only was he an avid supporter of dance, he was also a beloved performer. In fact, King Louis XIV is commonly referred to as the Sun King, a name he received after appearing ornately adorned in gold as Apollo, god of the sun, in Le Ballet de la Nuit (The Ballet of the Night). Many other highly respected dancers include: Giovanni Battista Lulli, Vaslav Nijinsky, George Balanchine, Vladimir Malakhov, and many more, all being men. It wasn’t until the early 20th century where women were finally respected in the dance world. Women like Martha Graham, Angela Isadora Duncan, Mary Wigman, Gret Palucca, Harald Kreutzberg, Yvonne Georgi, and Twyla Tharp were the first dancers and choreographers who began to create a reputation for women that changed the image of dance all over the world. Today, one renounced Africa...
It will allow me to be a manager and better my leadership skills. I will learn how to manage a big group of people, which is something that can be applied to many various careers. I will learn the best way to be a teacher and to stay calm and focused when things get difficult or crazy. All of these skills are not only applicable to the dance world, but to life in general.
In the Italian Renaissance it was a court dance for nobility, a serious theatrical art form in seventeenth century France, moved it’s way up to an acclaimed fine art in twentieth century Russia and America, and is now bigger than ever world wide in the twenty-first century. Stemming from the latin word ballere, Ballet has turned into the technically perfect, incredibly athletic, and jaw-droppingly beautiful dance form it is today thanks to the hard work of choreographers and musicians of these four major periods of time. I intend to use this paper to answer the Who, What Where,When and Hows of ballet. “Who brought ballet to where it it today?”, “When and How was ballet used throughout history?”, “What makes it the foundation of all dance?”,
I have never really come up with a choreography on my own, so it was difficult for me. I thought that a three minute dance was going to be easy and simple, but in fact it took a lot of time and effort. To begin with I needed to get familiar with the song, in spite of the fact that I’ve listen to the song many times, I never really pay consideration on each and every verse and the meaning behind this song. I had to concentrate on different aspects of the music, for example, rhythms and harmonies which allowed me to get inspired and come up with the choreography. I basically divided the song into sections and identified the repeats and volume.
Then, there is technical theatre. This area of theatre is my favorite and the goal for my future. Technicians are the ones who create the world for the actors or somehow manage everything behind the scenes. Before I explain the multiple fields and areas of technical theatre, I must stress how important this side of theatre is overall. When it comes down to getting a degree in technical theatre or pursuing it, people tend to view it as a purely practical occupation and experience based. Take a look at it in comparison to performance; in a graduate thesis by Christian J. Hershey in 2015, he took a survey of college courses offered for theatre education for a technical focused theatre degree rather than those offered for a performance focused
The Northern Territory is known for its culturally diverse population and some would say it is the ‘multicultural hub’ of Australia. With all of these cultures comes distinctive customs and traditions. Throughout history dance has been used to help people develop a sense of identity, the younger generations are also taught social patterns and values through the different dances. The significance of these traditional dances was to reinforce and celebrate cultural law and practices including the celebration of the passage from child to adulthood or spiritual worship. The predominantly Western culture in Australia often causes minority groups to struggle for recognition regarding their beliefs and traditions. This is parallel to the Australian dance industry, where many cultural dance groups feel they have to justify who they are and are often
They are often put into dance history to learn who created what. They do this to not just have them know what theyre dancing, but to also know wher everything originated from. The terminology from Vagonova differs from other techniques. They are usually given not only technique classes, but they have to experience choreography classes. This helps them to grow up to be better choreographers and
Have you ever thought about the history of dance, or how long human life has known it? Dance has been here longer than we actually think. We can take dance back all the way to 600 BC to Now. Dance has made very big changes overtime. It went from doing it in honor for only the dead or religious situations to now just doing it for fun. The way or different moves have also changed over this big course in time. It ways and moves have changed, and the outfits used to perform these different types of dances. There has been clean and dirty dancing all along, some of things in those dances have stayed, others haven’t. Dance has been a very great thing and will stay being a great thing during human life because it expresses a lot. It expresses itself, and a person can express their feelings, in the different kind of moves. It does take time to get to know the moves but you can get through.
“Dance, the art of precise, expressive, and graceful human movement, traditionally, but not necessarily, performed in accord with musical accompaniment. Dancing developed as a natural expression of united feeling and action.”
On the night of the DancePlus performance, I saw numerous little performances. There were six of them in total and the one I had most reactions and favors to is the last one of the first half, which is called Swampin. It was choreographed by John Evans with additional material by Oluwadamilare Ayoride, Jennifer Payan and surprisingly, the dancers. Usually what I would expect from a piece of dance performance is choreographers dominating the process of being creative on the grounds o f coming up dance moves. However, this time, it is nice to see how the dancer actually participating first hand in the creating process of the whole performance which would definitely benefit the quality of the dance, since the dancers would their own choreography