Why your Gift Matters

A career in performance is often intense, insecure and short. At an age when most professionals are reaching a peak in their careers, a dancer’s career often ends.

Did you know?

• Most dancers devote at least 10 years to pre-professional training, but their careers last only 14 years on average
• The average annual salary of a dancer in Canada is $18, 500
• As high-performance athletes, dancers face a high risk of career-ending injury

 

New beginnings start with the Dancer Transition Resource Centre

With the generous support of donors like you, we can help dancers:

• feel more secure
• address the unique challenges of their career
• plan and prepare for the future
• acquire transferable skills that are useful in any career
• pursue studies leading to parallel or second careers – studies, which would otherwise be cost-prohibitive for most
• transfer their incredible passion, determination, self-discipline and creativity into wide-ranging second careers when a life on stage is no longer possible. 
• network with their peers and gain important non-performance skills in entrepreneurship, work-life balance, and other areas essential to success