DANCER

Job Definition:

• Dancers and choreographers conceive and create or perform dances.

Job Description:

• Perform dances. May also sing or act..

Duties and Tasks:

• 1) Attend costume fittings, photography sessions, and makeup calls associated with dance performances.
• 2) Collaborate with choreographers in order to refine or modify dance steps.
• 3) Coordinate dancing with that of partners or dance ensembles.
• 4) Develop self-understanding of physical capabilities and limitations, and choose dance styles accordingly.
• 5) Harmonize body movements to rhythm of musical accompaniment.
• 6) Perform classical, modern, or acrobatic dances in productions, expressing stories, rhythm, and sound with their bodies.
• 7) Perform in productions, singing or acting in addition to dancing, if required.
• 8) Study and practice dance moves required in roles.
• 9) Train, exercise, and attend dance classes to maintain high levels of technical proficiency, physical ability, and physical fitness.
• 10) Audition for dance roles or for membership in dance companies.
• 11)  Devise and choreograph dance for self or others.

Activities:

• 1) Communicating with Supervisors, Peers, or Subordinates — Providing information to supervisors, co-workers, and subordinates by telephone, in written form, e-mail, or in person.
• 2) 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
• 3) 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 of materials.
• 4) Thinking Creatively — Developing, designing, or creating new applications, ideas, relationships, systems, or products, including artistic contributions.
• 5) Coordinating the Work and Activities of Others — Getting members of a group to work together to accomplish tasks.

Abilities:

• 1) Speed of Limb Movement — The ability to quickly move the arms and legs.
• 2) Gross Body Coordination — The ability to coordinate the movement of your arms, legs, and torso together when the whole body is in motion.
• 3) Stamina — The ability to exert yourself physically over long periods of time without getting winded or out of breath.
• 4) Dynamic Strength — The ability to exert muscle force repeatedly or continuously over time. This involves muscular endurance and resistance to muscle fatigue.
• 5) 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.
• 6) Spatial Orientation — The ability to know your location in relation to the environment or to know where other objects are in relation to you.
• 7) Dynamic Flexibility — The ability to quickly and repeatedly bend, stretch, twist, or reach out with your body, arms, and/or legs.
• 8) Memorization — The ability to remember information such as words, numbers, pictures, and procedures.
• 9)Explosive Strength — The ability to use short bursts of muscle force to propel oneself (as in jumping or sprinting), or to throw an object.
• 10) Extent Flexibility — The ability to bend, stretch, twist, or reach with your body, arms, and/or legs.
• 11) Gross Body Equilibrium — The ability to keep or regain your body balance or stay upright when in an unstable position.
• 12) Peripheral Vision — The ability to see objects or movement of objects to one’s side when the eyes are looking ahead.
• 13) Originality — The ability to come up with unusual or clever ideas about a given topic or situation, or to develop creative ways to solve a problem.
• 14) Fluency of Ideas — The ability to come up with a number of ideas about a topic (the number of ideas is important, not their quality, correctness, or creativity).

Knowledge

• Fine Arts — Knowledge of the theory and techniques required to compose, produce, and perform works of music, dance, visual arts, drama, and sculpture.