Making changes
Subtitle: facilitating the transition of dancers to post-performance careers : research report
By: William J. Baumol, Joan Jeffri and David Throsby.
Contributors: Jeffri, Joan.; Throsby, C. D.; Advance Project.
Publisher: Advance Project
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 284
Subjects: Dance -- Vocational guidance; Career changes; Dancers -- Economic conditions
Other titles: Transition of dancers to post-performance careers
Notes: Includes bibliography (p. 73-77).
"With substantial assistance from Sue Anne Batey Blackman, Virginia Hollister, Annemarie Schoepfer and Lauren Tehan".
Table of contents: title: Summary statement; title: Part 1. Facilitating the transition of dancers to post-performance careers. Dancers in transition, the challenge ; Research approach and methods of the study ; The dance industry worldwide, highlights of our country profiles ; Dancer career transition programs and practices and the four transition centers [Career Transition for Dancers (U.S.), Dancer Transition Resource Centre (Canada), Dancers' Career Development (U.K.), Dutch Retraining Program for Professional Dancers] ; Facing transition, the situation of the individual dancer (survey of three countries) ; Guiding hypotheses and the pertinent evidence collected ; Our conclusions and recommendations, some promising programs and practices; title: Part 2. Country profiles and ancillary materials [including] socio-economic characteristics of dance in eleven nations. Dance in Australia ; Dance in Canada ; Dance in England ; Dance in France ; Dance in Germany ; Dance in Hungary ; Dance in Japan ; Dance in Mexico ; Dance in the Netherlands ; Dance in Switzerland ; Dance in the United States; title: Appendix A. Some dancer career transition programs beyond the four formal centers. Dance companies ; Dance schools ; Service, labor, and membership organizations ; Government initiatives for facilitating dancers transition ; Other programs that facilitate the transition of dancers; title: Appendix B. Survey methods for Australia, Switzerland, and the United States; title: Appendix C. Survey questionnaire and responses (raw data from Australia, Switzerland and the United States)