A dancer’s artistic career is intense, highly specialised and usually shorter than that of a ‘traditional’ profession. For this reason, the transition to new professional opportunities creates a crucial challenge, requiring appropriate tools, transferable skills and a stronger supportive ecosystem.

 

The Creative Europe-funded project NewSteps was created to support dancers by researching and piloting an innovative dual-career pathway, as well as other capacity-building opportunities, that bridge the worlds of dance, cultural management, and new employment opportunities in the cultural and creative sectors.

 

Through research, training, international mobility, networking, and awareness-raising activities, the project aims to strengthen participants’ skills and contribute to greater awareness of the issue of dancers’ career transitions and changes at the European level.