Duties and tasks

• Directing and participating in rehearsals to practice dance steps and techniques required for a performance
• Auditioning for dance roles or for membership in dance companies
• Conceiving and creating dances, which often convey a story, theme, idea or mood, by a pattern of steps, movements and gestures
• Performing dances as a soloist, with a partner or as a member of a dancing group before live audiences or for film, television or other visual media
• Coordinating the production music with the music directors
• Training, exercising and attending dance classes to maintain the required levels of ability and fitness