Jobs ballroom couples cruise lines

Jobs for Ballroom couples at the Cruise lines

Dancing couples are always busy. There are trainings, practices, competitions, seminars in summer and winter with the short rest. Such hard conditions lead to the wish to give up all work and escape from the “ triangular logjam” 

Physical exercises in combination with emotional tension can contribute to serious psychological stress and as a result the end of dancing career and full changing of the performance. Unfortunately this is the an ordinary situation in the life of sport ballroom dancers. 

How to avoid the pressure of the circumstances and to continue to engage in favorite business at the same time and upgrade the dancing skills?  

There is a good opportunity for changing the daily dancing rut – work at the cruise liner. This work  does not break off your dancing career and give you  new urge for reaching the top of dancing career and good experience from working with the best world  choreographers and there is the most important thing –you can improve you professional skills as dancers. Not without reason psychologists recommend to change your activity and daily rut for rising emotional and physical  tonus. 

Where do you have a  possibility to combine all advantages of high-class rest with rich sightseeing, where will you be able to throw off your tiredness from all competitions and to return to the ball-room in a good dancing shape?  

Work for dancers at a cruise liner 

The work for dancing couple at a cruise liner – it is the work in a show. The quantity of the shows depends on continuance and distance of the cruise route. The standard schedule is: from 5 to 8 performances for ten-day journey and 2-3 performances for 3-4 day journey. It is provided by the standard contract  from 3 to 5 solo from dancing couple in every show and common entrance at the beginning and at the end of the show. Every time there is a “show passage” before the next show. The working day of the dancing couple including “passage”, making-up, and directly show, takes them 4 hours a day. The rest of the time you can rest yourself and train your self. 

The standard term of the contract for dancing couple and for ordinary dancers from the show troupe is 6 months. It does not contain the term of rehearsal that lasts usually from two weeks to 6 months and usually takes place  at the training-centers on the beach and is paid by the employer separately. 

Also there are short-terms contracts – from 1 to 3 months. They are suitable for couples who do not want to interrupt their work in rating competitions. As a rule such contracts are concluded for the short  ferryboat journeys, principally in Europe. In this case the dancing couple has to have their own show suits and performances that are ready to show (in preference Latina) 

The level of the salary of dancing couples is from 3600$ and depends on different causes. The main  cause is the presence of some high-quality promotion products about your dancing couple. Than qualitative pictures and video you have than you have more chances to attract attention to your couple from the cruise agency. You can find the particular advises for preparing dancing promotion products  in the Part “ Work for dancers at the liner” on the web-site of the agency www.risingstars.com.ua. 
 

Thanks to the long-term  collaboration and the good image of our agency from the cruise liners we do not spend a lot of time to make a decision about every couple. Usually the dancing couple  has to present at the casting personally in a case of direct employment but  on condition that you work through our agency, you don’t need to waste your money and time for a journey with a unknown result. 

Extra advantages for dancing couple at a cruise liner

The sport-ballroom couple has the huge advantages before the dancers from the main show-troupe. Such couple can teach classic  ball choreography the passengers of the liner (so-called Hobby-class). It can be either common classes where a group contains 10-20 people or private classes. Such a work is paid separately and it is   substantial increase of your salary according to a contract. If the couple has good knowledge of  foreign languages and as an experience of teaching such a work usually brings them greater money than the main contract.

The couple does not take part in the main performance,  so they do not need to have a good language skills. They absolutely do not need to know English or special dance terms (but ordinary dancers usually have to know this). Generally it is enough to have spoken language.   At the same time you will get a good possibility to communicate directly with native speakers and good chance to improve as your language in different levels trough  speaking to passengers and your professional language through communicating with choreographs and other dancers.

You can get good experience as a dancer working with the world known choreographs. The cruise service invites the best choreographs from The USA and Europe for a performance.

Work at the cruise liner – “yes and no” for a dancing couple 

The world of the sport ballroom dancing is so ruthless and demands whole 100% return from the dancer. Very often this return does not work in a arithmetical progression  from the spent energies and money. There is a very important numerator in the result – “subjective value”. And only the dancer can be aware of it because of years of trainings.   

At the same time the dancer enjoys its business and decreases “subjective value” through the daily trainings. He has already answered the dilettantish question “sport or art”. For the spectators it is the magic art of dance but for the dancer it is daily hard long-hour work at the distinction between physical and emotional power. And the result is clearly observed at the trainings where the dancer with blood and sweat reaches such unsurpassed skill about which the impressed spectator will say – this is art! 

Psychological component of training process is intensified by joint action in the dancing couple. The conflict between the partners is the ordinary thing in the ballroom dancing, none pays attention for it. And less time is wasted for the analysis and  an attempt to avoid such a situation at the beginning. 

At the same time admiring such distinguished dancing couple as Donny Berns and Geynor Faervezer, Markus and Karen Khilton we have forgotten that these couples had danced 20 years together. And life teaches the only such a stability can lead to the such grate results. 

Here it is on of the story about dancing career of Donny and Geynour… 

“ They were always distinguished by searching their own distinctive features in the Latina.

They improved their dance using different sources. For example they spent about 6 months in the USA in order to study the feature of Latina in the American continent. They got trained with different dance teaches, including the “step-dance” star  Gregory Khaynts. And in a year they took part in the competition “Interntional” at 1998 with new Latina concept.” 

Is it the good example of escaping from rut, is not it? 

For the current moment there is a good chance to dancers to change rut and do not lose dancing shape - work at a cruise liner. Cruise liner combines the best advantages of 5 stars resort hotel and the most safe and comfortable vehicle. Exactly that allows you to combine work and rest, give you a possibility to visit a lot of sights in the most exotic places all over the world and have a chance at the same time dance and visit fitness-center. At the same time you will meet sunrise in a new please more beautiful than the previous – and all these discovering you will perform at our floating hotel. You can estimate by yourself that the work at the liner – it is the work when the world turns around you. 

What is the cruise liner

Sea cruise – is the big part of the world tourist industry. Last 10 years according to the Cruise Lines International Association it has been annual tourists increase approximately for 10%. Only last year the total amount of the passengers has exceeded 14 millions. The total turnover of the biggest cruise companies is  35 billions $.

The modern cruise liner totally meets the requirements of present days for amenities and high service level. There are big  comfortable staterooms, spacious desks, swimming pulls and solariums, bars and restaurants,  sport places and fitness-centers, theatres and halls, beauty salons and spa-centers, nigh clubs and disco-clubs. There are even aqua-parks and golf-fields!

The entertainments and the amenities at the liner are not worse then the same in the best world resorts. As well as hotels liners have their range of prestigious that is measured by stars and this influences for the level and the cost of journey. According to the equipment and the amenity of the liner, level of the service on the board  and other not less important details the cruise companies are divided for 4 groups  - 3, 4 and 5 stars and de luxe. 

There are almost not “freshers” in the cruise business. The biggest world cruise agencies have been working in this  business for ages. Lieder-companies have been increasing their image and reputability year by year. Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines, Norwegian Cruise Lines (NCL), P&O Cruises, Carnival и Princess Cruises – this is the top of the world’s “grands” in the cruise business.

80% of the cruise routes belong to the USA companies. The rest 20% are mainly divided between European and Asian  cruise companies. They all offer flexible prices to attract tourists with the different level of gains. Subject to the route the big cruise liner cruises different time from 1 week to several months and takes in a board passengers that are hunger for salt sea air, luxury rest in the board of the 5* liner and want to admire of floating pass the paradise islands.

Work at the liner – is one of the way to see World. There are some liners belonged to the big companies that literally can float everywhere. Of cause, if a journey is the main goal of the sea work, you will have a good chance to explore the world outside the board and visit a lot of countries.

Work at a cruise liner for musician and circus artists

Besides dancers there are a lot of artists of the other entertainment. There are a lot of musicians which work in the evening at the lobby-bars, at the  restaurants and music salons and very often they are invited to the main show. It depends on the liner but it can be solo-singers and performers, big music groups, jazz and classic orchestras.

The third group of the artists after musicians and dancers – is circus artists. The main circus genres that are involved in the performance – are acrobats,  trapeze artists, adagio, clowns and jugglers.

In order to estimate the scale of the cruise industry, pay attention that since 2004 the company “Royal Caribbean & Celebrity Cruises” the leader of the cruise industry that offers more than 200 sea routs on thirty modern liners has closed the deal with the world known circus  «Cirque du Soleil». Since the December of 2004 the circus would have performed nightly show on the cruise liners in winter time in the route to Caribbean. It is significant that «Cirque du Soleil» has have exclusive contracts only with the  famous world brands. It is so popular that in order to visit their show in Hollywood, Orlando, Las-Wegas you have to book tickets six months before. So a possibility to see «Cirque du Soleil» during the cruise confirms the leader position of RCI&CC holding company in its sector. Canadian circus «Cirque du Soleil» is the strongest corporation all over the world for today.

What do you need to start working?

For starting of the full-fledged work with our agency your couple needs to have promo-products with pictures and video.  You can find the particular advises for preparing dancing promotion products  in the Part “ Work for dancers at the liner” on the web-site of the agency http://www.risingstars.com.ua/job-ballroom-duos-dancesport-couples-employment-cruise-ship-lines.php

International agency «Rising Stars» - www.risingstars.com.ua