In our eighth grade classroom we were asked to take a quiz that would recommend some career clusters for us based on our likes and skills. We would then pick a career that interested us and research it. For the final part we would find someone in that career to interview about it. Going into this project I knew that I would pick being a dancer considering this is my first year in the junior company which is a company that Grand Rapids Ballet offers to let it’s students get a taste of what company life tastes like. So far I have really enjoyed junior company and it’s definitely something I would want to do in the future which is why I chose dancing as my career.
Being a professional dancer would require working in a highly competitive environment that demands you to constantly improve and where every action of yours is judged and critiqued which also leads to a stressful environment. A dancers day is typically seven to eight hours long. The required attire is anything you see fitting to dance in such as casual comfortable clothes and
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Ednis Gomez was born in the Dominican Republic, where he began his training at Expresiones y Danza Soraya Gallardo at the age of 16. In 2007, Ednis moved to Madrid, Spain, where he was chosen to study choreography and interpretive dance in the Alicia Alonso institute at King Juan Carlos University. While studying, he danced as a soloist at Ballet de Camara de Madrid for five years. Returning to the Dominican Republic, Ednis danced Choreography by Annabelle Lopez Ochoa and others with the National Ballet. In 2014, he was invited to dance as a guest in Grand Rapids Ballet’s production of Midsummer. The advice Ednis gave me for this career is to give everything you have and more and to be sure that you love it because if you don’t like even a little part of it you won’t make it at