This unit group includes dancers and dance teachers. Dancers are employed by ballet and dance companies, television and film productions and night clubs and similar establishments. Dance teachers are employed by dance academies and dance schools.

ballet dancer, ballet teacher, ballroom dancing teacher, dance instructor, dancer, folkloric dancer, interpretative dancer, tap dancer.

• Practise and rehearse dance routines under direction or instruction to achieve desired interpretation and presentation
• Perform dances as soloists or as members of groups before live audiences or for film or television
• Train and exercise to maintain the required levels of ability and fitness
• May choreograph their own performances.

• Teach dance technique and artistic interpretation to amateur and professional individuals and groups
• Teach the techniques, cultural origins and symbolic meanings of aboriginal, ethnic and folkloric dances
• Teach recreational dancing lessons such as ballroom dancing
• Prepare dance students for specific auditions and performances.

Dancers may specialize in specific types of dance such as ballet, ballroom, folk, jazz or modern.

Bonaventure, Cap-Chat, Chandler, Gaspé, Grande-Rivière, Murdochville, New Richmond, Sainte-Anne-des-Monts

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