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To become a backup dancer is a field with a lot of competition. The thing is most people aren’t aware of what it takes to become a backup dancer.

The tips below will show you what it takes to be a backup dancer for music artists and bands. It shows you the skills that will help you from the initial stages of auditioning through to actually getting booked for the job. Follow these tips and be ahead of the pack.

1. Talent: That’s right talent is one of the most important things. Spend all the time you can perfecting your skills, going to dance classes and be the best you can. It’ll help you!

2. Belief: No dancer achieved great success without believing in their talent. Believing in yourself whether you’ve been praised or just turned down for 5 auditions in a row.

3. Persistence: A lot of dancers will leave the race for backup dancer jobs because they’re not tough enough to be rejected so many times. It takes persistence because directors are always looking for different things on different jobs.

4. Image: Image is not a skill but creating a ‘sellable image’ for yourself is. Your image needs to look good whatever it is, and something that people can look at and say ‘Yes I could see that dancer in this video.’

5. Dedication: Dedication is needed to keep up practise whether times are thick or thin.

6. Stamina: Music videos can be long days. You can be filming from early in the morning till late at night. Days of 12 hours or more aren’t uncommon. The plus side is you’ll usually be well paid.

7. Patience: There can be a lot of waiting around any time you are filming whether it is a film, television show or music video. It takes patience because naturally as a dancer you want to be dancing. Often waiting around can take it out of you more than actually dancing itself.

8. Professionalism: Getting on with the job at hand with minimal fuss. Dancers that bicker or complain a lot aren’t fun for the crew or artist involved to have around.

9. Personality: A likeable personality or natural charm can work wonders. Some people can just seem to get on with everyone and are always great fun to have around. Not surprisingly they get booked often.

10. Good contact: Staying in touch with agents, returning phone calls about jobs and rehearsals, being easy to get in contact with. This makes it easier to get booked and much simpler for the people who you’re working with.

Belly dancing has been popularized over the years as a joyful woman’s art, and why not, after all it has all the essential ingredients that make it worthy to be cherished at moments of joy or woe. Now days belly dancing is not only practiced by female dancers, even male dancers all over have taken a deep interest in this form of art. This dance form was made popular by the Arabs, who called it raqs sharqi (“oriental dance”). With the passage of time, Belly dance has witnessed several alterations in its form, style, and costume and the same goes for its music.

When it comes to Belly dance music, it’s those grooving beats with their upbeat motions that imparts this dance form its true beauty. The graceful movement of each part of the body with a flickering pulsation of the hips and the hypnotic music forms the awe-inspiring sight to behold.

This music is always associated with Middle Eastern Music. Improvisation of this genre has taken place with the introduction of various instruments, each of which has their own specialty. Nonetheless, This music has to be such that it creates an electrifying and stimulating atmosphere and helps to ignite the fire both within the dancers and the audiences. The traditional Middle Eastern music instruments like tabl beledi, nakara, and a wide assortment of Eastern frame drums multiplies the real flavor of Belly dance.

Along with different “fusions” of belly dance, the music has also fused with different forms and styles of music. The contemporary form of belly dancing has been popularized by Shakira, the Latin America rock star. She brings forth a beautiful blend of Belly dancing along with Latino as well as other modern dance forms. Suhaila Salimpour, (world renowned dancer, performer, and choreographer) has also stepped up in revolutionizing music with her online belly dance mp3 store that features very modern and very classic styles of bellydance music. All for download.

Music stores all across the globe houses Belly dance CDs and DVDs, which can be enjoyed at leisure moments.

If you want to become a music video dancer there are many things you can do that will make people take you seriously and enhance your prospects. Follow these tips and you won’t go wrong.

1. Start going to a dance studio. The bigger dance studios will often have the best dance teachers so you should try and go there, if not many times a local dance studio will have some very good teachers.

2. Attend a dance college. Doing a 3 year course at a professional dance college can give you a strong all round training as you’ll be dancing all the time. Many jobs will also only accept applicants who have been to an accredited dance school.

3. Seek out the best dance teachers. Whatever styles of dance you choose to specialise in seek out and learn from the best teachers. They can teach you things that a non-expert wouldn’t be able to.

4. When you get good start attending dance auditions and castings. This’ll give you an idea of the process and the standard you’ll have to get to.

5. Speak to other successful dancers who are doing well and ask them for advice. Many times they’ll be happy to give you some pointers. Even if you don’t ask them for advice, just by talking to them you’ll get ideas about how you too can improve your prospects.

6. Get good photos done from a good photographer. Photos that reflect you and your image, and how clients could adapt your image to meet jobs specifications are an essential thing you’ll have to send out again and again and can help you get good jobs.

7. Get a dance agent or join a dance agency. You’ll have to audition to get in but they can get you many good castings and auditions that you wouldn’t normally hear about. A good agent can turn around a dancer’s career.

8. Practise. The more you practise the better you’ll become. The better you are, the more choreographers that will want to work with you on their next music video project.

9. Go to the dance classes and masterclasses of prominent choreographers in the industry. This can make you a familiar face to them and you can learn the type of current choreography being used in music videos at the moment.

10. Remain optimistic. Whilst not every dancer can be a music video dancer, many people don’t make it simply because they just give up. There are many rejections at auditions and whilst one choreographer may not feel you’re right for their style of dance, another will think you’re something special.