There are many jobs in the performing arts ranging from acting and dancing to producing plays, teaching and handling finances. Jobs in the performing arts can have good pay and depends on what you do. Jobs within the performing arts industry are split up into 3 categories: performers, production and administrative. Job roles within the performance sector consist of dancers, singers, actors, musicians, acrobats, magicians, comedians and many more. Roles in the production sector are choreographers, script writers and technicians. The job roles in the administrative team are producers, directors, front of house, agents, finance and there are many others. Depending on the size of the company, they will have smaller or bigger casts and the amount of job roles there are will vary, for example a large-scale company would have one or two people for each role, where as a small-scale company may have someone doing two roles rather than many people doing one. The three jobs that I have chosen to focus on
is a dancer for the performance role, a choreographer for the production role and theatre director for the administrative job role. For each job role there is an explanation of how to become either a dancer, choreographer or theatre director, the day-to-day jobs/tasks that each role entails, the salary of each role and the positives and negatives of pursuing a career in these roles. When covering the salary of each role, I mention Equity. Equity is the UK trade union that represents people working in the performing arts and entertainment industry. Equity campaigns on behalf of people working for the performing arts and entertainment industry and brings issues to the UK parliament and government. Equity also protects your rights when you are looking for work, applying for work, and working in the industry. In the private sector of the industry, if you are being treated unfairly, or the pay is unreasonable, Equity is the place you need to get in contact with and they are the ones that can help.