Dancers and choreographers
Dancers and choreographers devise, direct, rehearse and perform classical and contemporary dance routines.
- Employees (UK)
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- Median annual pay
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- Exposure score ?
- 0.3/10 Minimal 2.7/10 Low strict reading, with tools is 2.7/10 with-tools reading, strict is 0.3/10
- Wage exposure
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Higher exposure than 18% of the 379 UK occupations we scored.
What this score means.
Most of this role's work is still hard for AI: physical presence, practised skill, judgement in context and direct care, the things that do not turn into text.
If you are in this role
Nothing here is under pressure today, but the frontier moves. Learn enough to direct AI at the paperwork around the job. People in hands-on roles who can do that become unusually useful inside their organisations.
A few tasks in this role are within reach of AI, mostly paperwork, scheduling and routine writing. The shape of the role stays the same, and some parts get faster.
If you are in this role
Pick the two or three most repetitive things in your week and try a model on them. Most people underestimate what Claude or ChatGPT already does with admin-shaped work. The time you get back is the gain.
Where the work usually starts.
This role's strict reading is low because its top tasks are judgement, not drafting. The three highest-stakes tasks below are still usually where the work starts. Switch to With tools to see what AI plus the right context can take on.
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Direct rehearsals to instruct dancers in dance steps and in techniques to achieve desired effects.
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Advise dancers on standing and moving properly, teaching correct dance techniques to help prevent injuries.
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Teach students, dancers, and other performers about rhythm and interpretive movement.
These are the most important tasks AI can already handle when paired with the right tools and context. The first wins usually come from building workflows around them. That is the difference between a model that could do the job and one that actually does it inside your business.
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Record dance movements and their technical aspects, using a technical understanding of the patterns and formations of choreography.
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Choose the music, sound effects, or spoken narrative to accompany a dance.
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Seek influences from other art forms, such as theatre, the visual arts, and architecture.
Every role has three or four places like these. Finding them takes an hour. Turning them into a workflow your team actually uses takes a few days.
Every task in the role.
Every O*NET task for this occupation, split by what AI can do unaided and what still needs a person. Importance is O*NET's 1 to 5 rating of how central each task is.
Tasks via O*NET "Choreographers" (27-2032.00).
What AI can already do
1 of 18 tasks, unaided
Develop ideas for creating dances, keeping notes and sketches to record influences.
What still needs a person
17 of 18 tasks
Direct rehearsals to instruct dancers in dance steps and in techniques to achieve desired effects.
Advise dancers on standing and moving properly, teaching correct dance techniques to help prevent injuries.
Teach students, dancers, and other performers about rhythm and interpretive movement.
Record dance movements and their technical aspects, using a technical understanding of the patterns and formations of choreography.
Direct and stage dance presentations for various forms of entertainment.
Choose the music, sound effects, or spoken narrative to accompany a dance.
Experiment with different types of dancers, steps, dances, and placements, testing ideas informally to get feedback from dancers.
Seek influences from other art forms, such as theatre, the visual arts, and architecture.
Coordinate production music with music directors.
Design dances for individual dancers, dance companies, musical theatre, opera, fashion shows, film, television productions, and special events, and for dancers ranging from beginners to professionals.
Audition performers for one or more dance parts.
Assess students' dancing abilities to determine where improvement or change is needed.
Design sets, lighting, costumes, and other artistic elements of productions, in collaboration with cast members.
Train, exercise, and attend dance classes to maintain high levels of technical proficiency, physical ability, and physical fitness.
Read and study story lines and musical scores to determine how to translate ideas and moods into dance movements.
Manage dance schools, or assist in their management.
Restage traditional dances and works in dance companies' repertoires, developing new interpretations.
Tasks via O*NET "Choreographers" (27-2032.00).
What AI can already do
9 of 18 tasks, with tools
Record dance movements and their technical aspects, using a technical understanding of the patterns and formations of choreography.
Choose the music, sound effects, or spoken narrative to accompany a dance.
Seek influences from other art forms, such as theatre, the visual arts, and architecture.
Develop ideas for creating dances, keeping notes and sketches to record influences.
Coordinate production music with music directors.
Design dances for individual dancers, dance companies, musical theatre, opera, fashion shows, film, television productions, and special events, and for dancers ranging from beginners to professionals.
Assess students' dancing abilities to determine where improvement or change is needed.
Design sets, lighting, costumes, and other artistic elements of productions, in collaboration with cast members.
Manage dance schools, or assist in their management.
What still needs a person
9 of 18 tasks
Direct rehearsals to instruct dancers in dance steps and in techniques to achieve desired effects.
Advise dancers on standing and moving properly, teaching correct dance techniques to help prevent injuries.
Teach students, dancers, and other performers about rhythm and interpretive movement.
Direct and stage dance presentations for various forms of entertainment.
Experiment with different types of dancers, steps, dances, and placements, testing ideas informally to get feedback from dancers.
Audition performers for one or more dance parts.
Train, exercise, and attend dance classes to maintain high levels of technical proficiency, physical ability, and physical fitness.
Read and study story lines and musical scores to determine how to translate ideas and moods into dance movements.
Restage traditional dances and works in dance companies' repertoires, developing new interpretations.
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What it means for your sector.
This role's score comes from Eloundou et al's 2023 task labels, weighted by O*NET importance within each O*NET-SOC code, then bridged to UK SOC 2020 through ISCO-08 (the ONS coding index) and US SOC 2010 (the BLS crosswalk). Employment and median pay come from ONS ASHE Table 14.7a, 2025 provisional, which covers employees only.
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