My life as a cruise ship dancer

Imagine to travel beautiful places, make friends from all over the world, and offer high energy shows for full audience. While working on the ship, it is part of a regular day in the office. As a production dancer on a big cruise line, my main task is to perform in numerous shows and guests experiences during each trip. But as a staff member, daily life is far full of dancing on the ship, and it guarantees that you will surprise you, challenge you, and will help you develop as an actor and a person.

My contract started with six weeks of exercises in the company's studios. As soon as the cast of our 10 dancers and four singers arrived, we learned four production shows as well as in three popup performances, including our sales of celebration and 80 dance party.

Like most cruise ships, shows also needed a lot of partnerships, which I had not experienced much before. Since our cast learned more about working together, however, I was more comfortable to rely on my partners and talk about how we can perform difficult lifts and sequences together. Practicing seven hours a week was a mental and physical challenge, but it created the demand for both demand shows and the fast in the sea.

While traveling on a plane in Fort Louddel, FL, I encountered the whirlwind of new experiences. To find out how to fit your entire life into a small cabin that has to learn my emergency responsibilities as a member of a two -bank bed and a roommate, it took time to adjust the ship, it is the case whether it is your first contract or your fifth. About the things I usually didn't think twice on the ground, such as how to waste my trash or make a phone call, everything became more complicated, unless I learn my way until I lose permanently on the 18 -day ship. But with the support of my cast, which primarily worked on my family ship, went to my new home, eventually became the second nature.

On the ship, another mini -rehearsal process, commonly known as “install”, learned how to stop fitting costumes, prevent prevention formations and learn how to work with the papers and set the pieces on the stage. I had never encountered it before, as stood up in the middle of the stage, and a living band that was played with us. The other parts of the install were more scary, such as the best way to accelerate the wings (the fastest was less than 25 seconds), and the unexpected challenge of dancing on a shocking ship (Hello, core stability!)

Once all the shows were premiered, I was settled in the next several months I had a new routine in the sea. In the days of the show, our schedule resembles a land deal. We will start listening to our cast manager on our last performance, after which some time to make necessary reforms or changes on our feet. After that we ran through the whole show, minus costumes and technical elements. After that, all this was about: fixing and pre -setting costumes, warm, hair and makeup, and going to a difficult lift with your partners. And, finally, the best part: Stepping Stepping is ready to do its best and support my cast.

During the daytime, the portions of the day and the night were busy. In just one deal, I visited more than 10 countries, including Antarctica! But there was a lot of time here, especially on the marine days (when the ship is not documented at a port). Often, the cast helps in various programs, such as hosting the third parties for staff, teaching dance and fitness classes, or in the form of our journey, working in the long -standing maritime tradition of the “crossing equator” for guests. We worked hard, but we also had a lot of fun.

Spending months away from friends and family can be isolated, and it is difficult to lose certain moments like weddings and holidays. But I never really feel lonely on the ship. My fellow fellow, musicians, chefs, technicians, barristas, room stewarders, and more become the familiar neighbors with whom I interact on a daily basis, and in these little conversations, all of this increases a wide sense of the community that I can know about.

As an actor in the sea, the only permanent change. The ports change, the staff members outside the cast are permanently joining and going, and you will never know when you will face unexpectedly, as if a sick cast mate will have to re -block a show at the last minute. But if you stay flexible and embrace every new challenge as an opportunity to learn, there is no limit to what you may find. I'm sure I have a great job that can ask for a dancer, and I'm excited to see where the high sea takes me.