Job description Dancer in the South Coast–Burin Peninsula Region

Find out what work is like for a dancer in Canada. This work description is applicable to all Dancers (NOC 53120).

Dancers

Description

Dancers are employed by ballet and dance companies, television and film productions and nightclubs and similar establishments. This unit group also includes dance teachers who are usually employed by dance academies and dance schools.

Job duties

Here are some of the main activities and tasks that Dancers have to perform, and some of the physical demands they involve:

  • A new main duty
  • Practise and rehearse dance routines under direction or instruction to achieve desired interpretation and presentation
  • Perform dances as soloists or as members of groups before live audiences or for film or television
  • Train and exercise to maintain the required levels of ability and fitness
  • May choreograph their own performances.
  • Dance teachers
  • Teach dance technique and artistic interpretation to amateur and professional individuals and groups
  • Practise and rehearse dance routines under direction or instruction to achieve desired interpretation and presentation
  • Perform dances as soloists or as members of groups before live audiences or for film or television
  • Teach the techniques, cultural origins and symbolic meanings of Aboriginal, ethnic and folkloric dances
  • Train and exercise to maintain the required levels of ability and fitness
  • Teach recreational dancing lessons such as ballroom dancing
  • May choreograph their own performances.
  • Prepare dance students for specific auditions and performances.

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Sources Occupational and Skills Information System & National Occupational Classification

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