The biggest advantages are you can set your own hours which makes it easier when having to do the school pick ups and drop offs. One of the biggest shocks I had after entering my freelance career was the multitude of duties I had to take on in order to become successful in my field. It is a hard life that is not necessarily easy to maintain, but with lots of hard work and great marketing skills a freelance dancer can lead a very fulfilling lifestyle that few people get the opportunity to experience. The life of a freelance dancer is a very unique one. One thing that really strikes me about freelance work is how revealing the stresses of this career-style are to an artist. On one hand, freelance dancers are paid to travel to sometimes fascinating destinations and get treated like royalty. Freelance dancers are artists that come from an array of places during their career. Who are freelance dancers? What is it like to work as a freelance dancer?

Can you find effective ways to market yourself and the quality of performer you are without appearing that you are an egotistical maniac of a dancer? While on the other hand, time in between jobs can be lengthy and destitute and work can be a challenge to find. Everyone knows that free classified ads are an excellent way to find openings for jobs. And I know this for a fact because I am cheap and Happy Meals are an inexpensive way to feed myself when I’m in a pinch. It is important that you know how to stand your ground in contract negotiations or how to approach an employer when certain work places issues arise. It is never comfortable speaking up to protect yourself or telling an employer that you aren’t comfortable with certain items. What I am talking about is speaking up when you are not comfortable with the compromise (or lack thereof) given. Law profs talking about depression seems relatively unhelpful – my professors spent the first day of second semester 1L year consoling those of us who would be getting poor grades, but it was of little help. We did, however have a little difficulty getting it to effectively work with laminated sheets.

Due to the range of reasons dancers begin training, many are only dancing because they were good at it and have never known anything else. The last few years I danced with Pacific Northwest Ballet, I added university classes to achieve my Associates of the Arts degree and union delegate duties as a liaison between company dancers and management. If you don’t think you can handle this type of pressure, you may need to seek work with a company that offers a union contract or an advocate for its dancers. There are few dancers that are naturally good at promoting themselves for employment. Dancers are greatly unique, but especially so in the sense that almost all of us started our path to professional as children. Are you ready to wear more hats than the word “dancer” implies? I have experienced firings, injuries, famines, transitions, losses, more injuries, burnt bridges, burn out, and much more.

This is a temporary measure until the economy picks up, I’m told, but what concerns me is the cumulative result all of these changes have on artists. 7. Curate your own “blogallery.” It doesn’t have to be about sales so much as keeping your work, and that of artists you respect, in the public eye while your dealer and the economy in general catch their breath. With sales down and foot traffic in the galleries almost non existent, I’m wondering how feasible it is even to show right now. The adhering to ideas will certainly help you find a respectable relocating firm that will certainly get the job done right and also at the ideal price. But you need to move to find out, move and try things. Like other artists who have been honing their craft since early childhood, a handful of professionals find that they really aren’t passionate when the going gets tough. Some are at the beginning of their careers and were not offered a contract with a company, but would still like to dance professionally.