Entertains by performing dances, or creates dance compositions. This occupation requires high levels of creative talent or personal commitment and interest as well as, or in place of, formal qualifications or experience.

Skill Level

1

Specialisations

• Ballet Dancer
• Contemporary or Modern Dancer
• Exotic Dancer

Unless you are exempt in very limited circumstances, you are required to have a positive Skills Assessment to apply for the visas listed above.

Skills Assessment authority for Dancer or Choreographer is Vocational Education and Training Assess (VETASSESS). To have a positive skills assessment, you must meet the following criteria:

• Three pathways for skills assessment by VETASSESS
  • Pathway A – Qualification(s) assessed at least AQF Diploma level with a highly relevant field of study and at least one year of post qualification highly relevant employment at an appropriate skill level in the last five years
  • Pathway B – Qualification(s) assessed at least AQF Diploma level with an additional qualification at least AQF Certificate IV in a highly relevant field of study and at least one year of post-qualification highly relevant employment at an appropriate skill level in the last five years
  • Pathway C – Qualification(s) assessed at least AQF Diploma level without a highly relevant field of study and at least two years of post-qualification highly relevant employment at an appropriate skill level in the last five years
• Applicants must meet both the qualification and employment requirements to obtain a positive skills assessment
• Note: For pre-qualification employment (if all of your employment is before your qualification assessed at the AQF diploma level), three years of highly relevant employment in addition to at least one year of highly relevant employment at an appropriate skill level in the last five years.

entertain by portraying roles in productions, performing and composing dances, and performing a variety of other acts.

Tasks

• reading scripts and undertaking research to gain understanding of parts, themes and characterisations
• learning lines and cues, rehearsing parts, and applying vocal and movement skills to the development of characterisation
• preparing for performances through rehearsals under the instruction and guidance of production directors
• acting parts and portraying roles as developed in rehearsals in film, television, radio and stage productions
• practising dance routines and interpreting the choreographic content of the production
• performing dances for audience entertainment, coordinating body movements and facial expression, usually with musical accompaniment
• composing and notating ballet compositions and other dance routines
• creating and performing individual performance routines
• rehearsing, auditioning and travelling between entertainment venues

Skill Level

Most occupations in this unit group have a level of skill commensurate with a bachelor degree or higher qualification. At least five years of relevant experience may substitute for the formal qualification. Some occupations in this unit group require high levels of creative talent or personal commitment and interest as well as, or in place of, formal qualifications or experience (ANZSCO Skill Level 1).

Occupations in this Group

• 211111 Actor
• 211112 Dancer or Choreographer
• 211113 Entertainer or Variety Artist
• 211199 Actors, Dancers and Other Entertainers nec