Top Three Things I Have Learned from Being a Professional Dancer

1. Choose your teachers wisely. 
If you want to find work, seek out classes that are beneficial for you. Finding working choreographers, who are
 teaching open classes and taking them, helps your chances of finding dance work. Staying connected with your dance training obviously will increase your technique. Now think about your career. Take classes from multiple teachers to become a part of multiple artists “mental catalog.” When choreographers seek out dancers to hire, they pull from their own classes first.

2. Do what you fear, not just what you love. 
The more diversity your dance education has, the more marketable you become. Don’t just take one style of dance and don’t just be a dance performer. Choreographers now a days like to mix styles and are trying to find more ways to innovate dance by adding technology, acting, singing, painting, you name it. Having another skill to go along with your dancing helps you to stand out from the crowd and differentiate you from a million other people who can also dance. 

3. Be a Good Person. 
Remember, people want to hire dancers who are pleasant to be around. Showing up late, not being prepared and talking about your fellow dancers are all bad traits to have. Some of the most talented dancers have been looked over because of the way they carry themselves and the way their attitude is perceived by employers, from their body language and work ethic. There are 43 muscles in your face, that’s more than both your legs combined, which also need to be exercised.