What It Means To Be A Professional Performer

What It Means To Be A Professional Performer

Professional Performer

08.02.2023

Like most things, it starts from childhood. We’re taught to dance and sing to help us learn about the world, and we expand our imaginations by playing pretend. At that age, dancing, singing and acting are a guaranteed dopamine hit that leaves everybody smiling. At some schools and colleges, these activities are called Enrichment, because performance really has the power to nourish your soul and help you reconnect with yourself. However, for most people these pursuits soon become nothing more than extracurricular hobbies as life gets in the way.  

But what happens when you choose to pursue a career in performance instead?  

Although from the outside it may look like it’s all fun and games – and to be fair it can be – becoming a professional actor, singer or dancer takes a lot of dedication. Like every other industry, there can be boring days when the creativity just doesn’t flow. Even though you won’t work in an office, you still have to deal with all the usual admin like invoices and tax, write up lengthy pitches and proposals, come up with promo ideas and conduct long and involved health and safety audits. So, while your hours might be different, you’re still working through a lot of the same processes as everyone else.  Pushing through when they’re not feeling your best also becomes a far more involved process because performance requires a unique level of intensity, expression and physicality that you don’t find anywhere else.  

However, even though it can be tough there really is nothing better than sharing your talent with the world. The look of surprise on people’s faces as your performance elicits some unexpected deep emotion is so rewarding, and the way it feels to bring joy to people every day is indescribable. You get to tap in to a level of communication that goes beyond words and experience an almost instinctive understanding of the connection all humans have with each other.  

Contrary to popular belief, a career as a professional performer doesn’t mean striving for perfection at all costs. Yes, you need to know your lines and routines, but the thing that sets you apart is having the heart to get up on the stage and give it your all, day after day. To make each performance feel like the first time, while conveying the type of energy, excitement and passion that makes your audience feel alive. It’s electrifying.  

So yes, a professional performance career isn’t for the faint-hearted, and just like any job it can get monotonous or stressful or just downright hard, but it’s so worth it. To be a professional performer means creating moments in time that people can lose themselves in. It means moving people to tears. It’s putting smiles on faces and making eyes widen in delight. It’s high vibe and full throttle but most of all it’s the truest expression of all the things that make you, you. And there’s nothing better than that.  

 

 

 

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