Perform dances

Little of this can be handed to software today.

This work is the relationship itself. An agent can prepare for it and write up what happened afterwards, which is real time saved, but the encounter needs a person present and answerable.

Key facts about this work activity
How automatableBarely automatable
Kind of workRelationships, negotiation and public-facing presence
Jobs that do it1 occupation
Tool categories that applyNone
O*NET activityPerforming for or Working Directly with the Public (4.A.4.a.8)

What this looks like on the job

Not our paraphrase. These are real task statements recorded against this activity, spread across the 1 occupation that perform it.

  • Harmonize body movements to rhythm of musical accompaniment.
  • Perform classical, modern, or acrobatic dances in productions, expressing stories, rhythm, and sound with their bodies.
  • Collaborate with choreographers to refine or modify dance steps.
  • Coordinate dancing with that of partners or dance ensembles.

What we would actually use

Nothing in our landscape addresses this work. That is the honest answer rather than a padded list: this activity needs a person present, or a machine rather than a software agent.

Our pickBuy nothing

Buy nothing. An assistant can prepare you for the encounter and write up what happened afterwards, which is real time saved, but the encounter itself is the work and it needs you in it.

Chosen for the cheapest thing that does the job, not the best funded. Nothing on this site is sponsored, and the full landscape is there when you want to disagree with us.

Who does this work

1 occupation in the O*NET database perform this activity. Each one has a full breakdown of its other tasks.

Work that goes with it

O*NET groups these under “Present arts or entertainment performances”. In practice they tend to be done by the same person, in the same sitting.

Related work activities
ActivityJobs
Collaborate with others to prepare or perform artistic productions9
Audition for roles3
Perform music for the public3
Entertain public with comedic or dramatic performances3
Perform for recordings2

Method. The activity, its taxonomy placement and the occupations that perform it come straight from the public-domain O*NET 30.3 database. The automatability band is ours: we map each of O*NET’s 41 generalized work activities to how much of its output current software can produce, assuming a person still reviews and owns the result. It is a coarse three-way judgment on purpose. A precise-looking percentage here would be invented.