Improving your overall strength can’t hurt… perhaps yoga?Īfter company class each morning, followed by back-to-back-to-back rehearsals, with occasional breaks for costume fittings or physical therapy, and then by the hair-makeup-costume-dance routine of daily performances, landing the title of Second Soloist feels like a dream. So, while the corps is expected to be able to move in startling unison, its members are also competing for bigger roles and promotions. The company promotes almost all its stars, the principal dancers, from within. This is your life now… and you LOVE it! Being in SMBS’s corps is not like being a backup singer. When you are a principal or soloist, you get nights off, but, in the corps, you are expected to dance every night. Your first Corps de Ballet contract… and in no less than the San Myshuno Ballet Company! But your work is just getting started. Are you ready to play your part in bringing the tradition of classical ballet into the future? A typical dancer goes through years of preparatory training, auditions for job placement, hours of ongoing classes and rehearsals, and harsh physical demands, while experiencing the joys of artistic work and performing on stage. It is known for its aesthetics and rigorous technique, its flowing, precise movements, and its ethereal qualities. Are you ready to take the biggest risk of all and commit to one kind of dance career?Ĭlassical ballet is one of the most demanding and respected forms of dance. But is this all you want? You’ve focused hard on being ready, always ready for any kind of dance, but there is one dance path that truly holds your heart. Now that you’ve had your first successful solo, you’re a natural choice for the next one… and the one after that. You didn’t push them, but you’re certainly ready to stop being an understudy and start being the dancer in the spotlight. You’ve got to show them all you have that “it” factor to keep all eyes on you as a soloist!Īt last! Terrible shame about that lead dancer and those stairs at the rehearsal hall. Natural ability will only get you so far. Show up early, know your material and be prepared. As a full fledge member of the troop, your work is just getting started. But it’s made you stronger physically, mentally and artistically. The transition from student to professional is challenging. You have gotten a contract for an apprenticeship with the San Myshuno Dance Company, a world renown dance ensemble! Sure, you’re at the bottom of the totem pole, but this your chance to catch the right eye to become a member, maybe even a soloist! But thanks to your never ending hard work and dedication, you are one of those few. The hope of a career with one of the world’s top ballet companies is limited to very few. You want an apprenticeship with a national company! You could probably work your way up in this small company, but you have your eye on a bigger pond. First Willow Creek… then the world! Keep training. It took a few tries, but you’ve landed a contract with a local dance company. Your first audition! Even at the regional level competition is fierce but you call on don’t have any quit in you. You develop greater dance fitness, strength and endurance to perform these dance skills with cross-training outside of class. Dance class is where you develop your dance skills. Your scholarship and work study pay the bills… barely but you’re too busy paying your dues to care. And right here is where you start paying: in sweat.” Pretty sure we’ve heard that one before. So, you should be fine even if you don’t have Get to Work, but please let me know if you have any trouble and I’ll add a version without that skill.Īnd so, let the music play and lets get right into… The Neia Career Commons file includes the objectives to complete the required skills. So you’re Sim can pay those bills, the pay levels are based on EA careers (since actual dancers mostly do it for the love… the pay really isn’t that much unless you’re in the upper UPPER echelon). This career is based on just a few of the many possible career path a real dancer might choose. Once I started working on it, it just kept growing. And dance has so many possible career paths… the idea just wouldn’t leave me alone. I was very excited by the idea of the Dancer career by xterrix but I couldn’t get it to work since the new updates. PLEASE NOTE: You WILL need the current Neia Career Commons file (included in download) also! *** Tested with Seasons and Game Version 1.
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