At what stage in a dancers training should they be informed about Dancer's Professional Ethics?
In module two of our BAPP course we researched Ethics and discussed our codes of practice and conduct within dance teaching. We all blogged about our personal values and codes of conduct in dance.
Dancers of all genres should be aware of dance Ethics and the value on how you are perceived as a dancer. History tells us and so do current stories from professional belly dance colleagues tells us that there are still some dancers that will experience 'casting couches' and give 'favours' to 'men in power' to get to a certain status level for a short period of time only to be dropped as the hot flavour for new 'meat' that comes along. Blogs and comments are being written about Ethics and this has particularly came to light in some cases in Cairo within the belly dancing scene today. This prompted me to remind ourselves about Ethics in dance and to make sure our dance students are also aware of this.
Here is a great piece of writing about Dancer's Professional Ethics.
Dancers' Professional Ethics
