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Summary Job Description | Tasks | |||
Perform dances. May perform on stage, for on-air broadcasting, or for video recording. | Train, exercise, and attend dance classes to maintain high levels of technical proficiency, physical ability, and physical fitness. | |||
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Study and practice dance moves required in roles. | ||||
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Harmonize body movements to rhythm of musical accompaniment. | ||||
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Perform classical, modern, or acrobatic dances in productions, expressing stories, rhythm, and sound with their bodies. | ||||
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Collaborate with choreographers in order to refine or modify dance steps. | ||||
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Coordinate dancing with that of partners or dance ensembles. | ||||
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Attend costume fittings, photography sessions, and makeup calls associated with dance performances. | ||||
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Audition for dance roles or for membership in dance companies. | ||||
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Develop self-understanding of physical capabilities and limitations, and choose dance styles accordingly. | ||||
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Monitor the field of dance to remain aware of current trends and innovations. | ||||
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Teach dance students. | ||||
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Devise and choreograph dance for self or others. | ||||
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Perform in productions, singing or acting in addition to dancing, if required. | ||||
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CompGeo Salary Survey Benchmark Job Summary and Competencies
Dancers
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Important Knowledge Competencies | Competency Description | |||
Fine Arts | Knowledge of the theory and techniques required to compose, produce, and perform works of music, dance, visual arts, drama, and sculpture. | |||
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Important Skill Competencies | Competency Description | |||
Active Listening | Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times. | |||
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Coordination | Adjusting actions in relation to others' actions. | |||
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Speaking | Talking to others to convey information effectively. | |||
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Active Learning | Understanding the implications of new information for both current and future problem-solving and decision-making. | |||
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Learning Strategies | Selecting and using training/instructional methods and procedures appropriate for the situation when learning or teaching new things. | |||
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Instructing | Teaching others how to do something. | |||
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Service Orientation | Actively looking for ways to help people. | |||
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Critical Thinking | Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems. | |||
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Monitoring | Monitoring/Assessing performance of yourself, other individuals, or organizations to make improvements or take corrective action. | |||
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Social Perceptiveness | Being aware of others' reactions and understanding why they react as they do. | |||
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Time Management | Managing one's own time and the time of others. | |||
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Reading Comprehension | Understanding written sentences and paragraphs in work related documents. | |||
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Judgment and Decision Making | Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one. | |||
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Complex Problem Solving | Identifying complex problems and reviewing related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions. | |||
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Management of Personnel Resources | Motivating, developing, and directing people as they work, identifying the best people for the job. | |||
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Important Ability Competencies | Competency Description | |||
Gross Body Coordination | The ability to coordinate the movement of your arms, legs, and torso together when the whole body is in motion. | |||
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Stamina | The ability to exert yourself physically over long periods of time without getting winded or out of breath. | |||
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Extent Flexibility | The ability to bend, stretch, twist, or reach with your body, arms, and/or legs. | |||
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Dynamic Strength | The ability to exert muscle force repeatedly or continuously over time. This involves muscular endurance and resistance to muscle fatigue. | |||
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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. | |||
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Gross Body Equilibrium | The ability to keep or regain your body balance or stay upright when in an unstable position. | |||
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Multilimb Coordination | The ability to coordinate two or more limbs (for example, two arms, two legs, or one leg and one arm) while sitting, standing, or lying down. It does not involve performing the activities while the whole body is in motion. | |||
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Oral Comprehension | The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences. | |||
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Speed of Limb Movement | The ability to quickly move the arms and legs. | |||
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Static Strength | The ability to exert maximum muscle force to lift, push, pull, or carry objects. | |||
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Dynamic Flexibility | The ability to quickly and repeatedly bend, stretch, twist, or reach out with your body, arms, and/or legs. | |||
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Oral Expression | The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand. | |||
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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. | |||
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Information Ordering | The ability to arrange things or actions in a certain order or pattern according to a specific rule or set of rules (e.g., patterns of numbers, letters, words, pictures, mathematical operations). | |||
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Arm-Hand Steadiness | The ability to keep your hand and arm steady while moving your arm or while holding your arm and hand in one position. | |||
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Speech Recognition | The ability to identify and understand the speech of another person. | |||
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Speech Clarity | The ability to speak clearly so others can understand you. | |||
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Problem Sensitivity | The ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing there is a problem. | |||
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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). | |||
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Category Flexibility | The ability to generate or use different sets of rules for combining or grouping things in different ways. | |||
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Visualization | The ability to imagine how something will look after it is moved around or when its parts are moved or rearranged. | |||
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Near Vision | The ability to see details at close range (within a few feet of the observer). | |||
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Written Comprehension | The ability to read and understand information and ideas presented in writing. | |||
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Deductive Reasoning | The ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense. | |||
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Memorization | The ability to remember information such as words, numbers, pictures, and procedures. | |||
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Written Expression | The ability to communicate information and ideas in writing so others will understand. | |||
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Inductive Reasoning | The ability to combine pieces of information to form general rules or conclusions (includes finding a relationship among seemingly unrelated events). | |||
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Perceptual Speed | The ability to quickly and accurately compare similarities and differences among sets of letters, numbers, objects, pictures, or patterns. The things to be compared may be presented at the same time or one after the other. This ability also includes comparing a presented object with a remembered object. | |||
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Selective Attention | The ability to concentrate on a task over a period of time without being distracted. | |||
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Far Vision | The ability to see details at a distance. | |||
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Prerequisite Qualification Category | Education and Experience Level | |||
On-Site or In-Plant Training | None | |||
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Related Work Experience | Over 4 years, up to and including 6 years | |||
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Required Level of Education | Less than a High School Diploma | |||
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On-the-Job Training | None or short demonstration | |||
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On-the-Job Training | Anything beyond short demonstration, up to and including 1 month | |||
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Required Level of Education | High School Diploma (or GED or High School Equivalence Certificate) | |||
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Alternate Job Title(s) | |||
Acrobatic Dancer | |||
Ballerina | |||
Ballet Company Artistic Director | |||
Ballet Company Member | |||
Ballet Dancer | |||
Ballet Soloist | |||
Ballet Teacher | |||
Belly Dancer | |||
Burlesque Dancer | |||
Company Dancer | |||
Dance Artist | |||
Dance Instructor | |||
Dance Teacher | |||
Dancer | |||
Discotheque Dancer | |||
Exotic Dancer | |||
Go Go Dancer | |||
Go-Go Dancer | |||
Hip Hop Artist | |||
Hip Hop Dancer | |||
Latin Dancer | |||
Line Dancer | |||
Modern Dancer | |||
Performing Artist | |||
Precision Dancer | |||
Soft Shoe Dancer | |||
Soloist Dancer | |||
Song and Dance Performer | |||
Tap Dancer | |||
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