Lately, I've been hearing some different comments from local dancers and friends of mine. My dancer friends and I want to become professionals someday. We want to dance on big deal companies and become choreographers. We've even talked about becoming Rockettes (which would be AMAZING)! But now the dance world has become so hard to figure out that we don't know where to start. So I did a little research and found an amazing way to help your dancing career.
NETWORKING is probably one of the biggest things you could do to help your dancing career.
An example of networking: You take a class.You really liked the class, so you go and talk to the teacher afterwords. You tell them you enjoyed there class and say thank you for the opportunity. (Teachers and choreographers love love love being appreciated. Many students don't take enough time to thank there teachers and choreographers, especially when the students are kids.) The teacher will definitely notice you. Afterwords, you friend the teacher on facebook or instagram, and take other classes from them. They start to notice you more and if you are doing really well in their classes, they remember you. Say you took a few hip hop classes from a teacher. You guys are friends, and they know how good you are. Later, a friend of the teacher needs hip hop dancers to audition for a show. The teacher tells their friends about you and invites you to the audition. And because you were recommended, the choreographer notices you at the audition and BOOM! Your chances of getting hired are far better than everyone else. That is networking. To make your career successful you need to do this A LOT!
Take classes and dance EVERYWHERE! It will give you so much more experience with different teachers and how people in different places run your classes.
Do your research. If you do research on the artistic director or choreographer running an audition, you will know exactly what they are looking for and know what to practice. It helps a ton.
OVERALL!
Just get your name out there! Try your hardest! And don't quit! If you quit, you are done. Over. You can't get your career back on track. So don't quit.
