| If you want to become a music video dancer there | | | | 6. Get good photos done from a good photographer. |
| are many things you can do that will make people | | | | Photos that reflect you and your image, and how |
| take you seriously and enhance your prospects. | | | | clients could adapt your image to meet jobs |
| Follow these tips and you won't go wrong. | | | | specifications are an essential thing you'll have to |
| 1. Start going to a dance studio. The bigger dance | | | | send out again and again and can help you get good |
| studios will often have the best dance teachers so | | | | jobs. |
| you should try and go there, if not many times a | | | | 7. Get a dance agent or join a dance agency. You'll |
| local dance studio will have some very good teachers. | | | | have to audition to get in but they can get you |
| 2. Attend a dance college. Doing a 3 year course at a | | | | many good castings and auditions that you wouldn't |
| professional dance college can give you a strong all | | | | normally hear about. A good agent can turn around a |
| round training as you'll be dancing all the time. Many | | | | dancer's career. |
| jobs will also only accept applicants who have been | | | | 8. Practise. The more you practise the better you'll |
| to an accredited dance school. | | | | become. The better you are, the more |
| 3. Seek out the best dance teachers. Whatever | | | | choreographers that will want to work with you on |
| styles of dance you choose to specialise in seek out | | | | their next music video project. |
| and learn from the best teachers. They can teach | | | | 9. Go to the dance classes and masterclasses of |
| you things that a non-expert wouldn't be able to. | | | | prominent choreographers in the industry. This can |
| 4. When you get good start attending dance | | | | make you a familiar face to them and you can learn |
| auditions and castings. This'll give you an idea of the | | | | the type of current choreography being used in |
| process and the standard you'll have to get to. | | | | music videos at the moment. |
| 5. Speak to other successful dancers who are doing | | | | 10. Remain optimistic. Whilst not every dancer can be |
| well and ask them for advice. Many times they'll be | | | | a music video dancer, many people don't make it |
| happy to give you some pointers. Even if you don't | | | | simply because they just give up. There are many |
| ask them for advice, just by talking to them you'll | | | | rejections at auditions and whilst one choreographer |
| get ideas about how you too can improve your | | | | may not feel you're right for their style of dance, |
| prospects. | | | | another will think you're something special. |