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Dance education does an incredible job of preparing dancers for the craft, but what happens when the performance ends?

For many dancers, that education is limited.

Unless they pursue a graduate degree, invest in expensive professional development, or learn through experience, dancers are often left to figure out the business and professional realities of an arts career on their own.

Rai Arts believes that being career-ready means more than being artistically prepared.

The Rai Arts Career Readiness Framework™ was created to provide the foundation for our educational work, bringing together the practical knowledge, professional skills, and career strategies that dancers need beyond their artistic training.

Our approach recognizes that a dance career doesn't exist in isolation. It intersects with money, work, relationships, business, communication, decision-making, and the life you are building outside of the studio.

That's why our work isn't about teaching dancers to become something other than dancers. It's about giving dancers the tools to navigate the world as professionals.

We believe dancers should have access to practical education that helps them make informed decisions, advocate for themselves, and create careers that are aligned with the lives they want to live.

We don't believe dancers should have to choose between being artists and building sustainable lives.

A successful dance career can look many different ways. It can include performing, teaching, choreographing, entrepreneurship, arts administration, creative work, or several paths at once.