After Dance - what happens next?

[Jan McNulty]

Kate Columbus has written a nice piece for Stage En Pointe.  It is included in the Daily Links but I thought I would link the article here too:

 

 

http://www.thestage.co.uk/columns/en-pointe/2013/08/after-the-dance-what-happens-next/

 

[taxi4ballet]

One of my dd's maths teachers used to be a stage manager for a ballet company (another interesting career path), and she told me at a parents' evening that a lot of the dancers studied with the Open University, and she would often find them in the wings with their laptops while waiting to be called for rehearsals.

[chrischris]

It must be scary to suddenly find yourself out of a job in your thirties, especially as most ballet dancers don't earn enough to build up any kind of savings, but it's pretty common now for people to switch jobs/ careers quite a bit, so it's perhaps not quite as scary as it perhaps was 20 or so years ago, when people tended to stay in the same job for the whole of their working life

[Lisa O`Brien]

After Dance - What Happens Next? You get old and fat. Or is that just me ??!

[Jan McNulty]

I found this blog interesting.....

 

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/dolly-williams/bolshoi-ballet-how-not-to-be-a-diva_b_3836270.html