Profession Audience and Career Implications

I am currently 'in limbo' with my interviewing as my final interview could not be conducted until this weekend, this has however meant the questions I intend to ask have really evolved from spending time finding new and interesting literary articles.

Mina suggested I looked at various reports on the Dance Uk website, browsing the sites homepage has really stimulated my approach to how my professional artifact could benefit and map out a possible route for how my career can continue to develop.

The research I am doing into the meaning of dance has been so revealing, and is fuelling my passion for the subject more than ever. Although at the moment my work involves both performing dance and teaching, I couldn't answer if someone where to ask 'what exactly do you want to do with your career'? Is anyone else in this situation?

I feel the enquiry process itself is linking to my professional practise as it stands right now, but mainly through the communication of a professional artifact, it could help to sculpt and shape insight into potential future roles.

Learning about what Dance means to others, I am sharing in experiences I had never even contemplated before, even with my dance back ground and experience. But how can I communicate to my audience what I have found?!

Possible ideas, leaflets, video clips, images, posters......

Re-calling on past events I have taken part in, how about Flash Mobs? Although I am not wanting to promote Dance as a product so to speak, my research into their purpose suggests these are effective at drawing attention to something with the element of fun and surprise.

Here's a great example, what I noticed was the range of participants, age's, professions etc. Despite the participants being so diverse, somehow Dance, Music, and the element of surprise has brought that whole population together for that moment.

Is there a way I can capture this for my Professional Artefact? As a work in progress perhaps?

Along similar lines, another report on the Dance UK website contains information on how such an organisation goes about campaigning to raise Dances profile.

In this particular report, various famous dancers have got together, with contributions from many dance schools and professional organisations to create a manifesto to get the governments attention on how to change legislation to create conditions dance needs to flourish further.

Although I am by no means attempting to achieve this sort of impact, simply acknowledge the way in which the manifesto itself draws ones attention is really effective.

The link to see it is below, it has lots on information for the whole of the dance industry, lots of you may find some parts useful.

Dance UK Link