Managing arts and education careers. Making career transitions and career change.

1. A Personal Journey as Example
©Marylloyd Claytor

2.  Parallel careers
Having two careers--twopaths
•Teaching
•Dance
Dance
•Dance
•Teaching
Teaching

3.  Avoid chaos
 Avoid stress

4.  What are YOUR priorities?
◦ Not the priorities of others…
What do you need?
What bothers you?
Be honest with yourself!
No one need know your priorities
but you!

5.  Be honest with yourself when things are not
going well
 Share with your support network
 Analyze, regroup, and develop a strategy

6.  I thought my career would work out.
◦ I did not have a plan.
 Support network
◦ I did not have one.
 Unable to analyze, regroup, or develop a strategy
◦ I needed help but could not ask.

7.  Senior Year College Plan
◦ Applied for numerous training programs in the
Northeast
 Retail
 Banking
 Summer Vacation Plan After Graduation
 Taught dance in private studios in hometown
 Fall Plan After College Graduation
◦ Attend graduate school
 but not enough money

8.  Unreasonable – Pie in the Sky
 Refusal to accept reality
 Uninformed
◦ Did not recognize or accept economic climate of
the country at the time
◦ Did not accept reality of personal economics

9.  Charles Dickens said it all…and now my
mantra… “It was the best of times and the
worst of times…”

10.  Move On
 Take the good out of the bad
◦ Your assets will be greater than your liabilities.

11. Teach to Perform
Teach and Perform
Teach Dance Classes
Free Rehearsal Space
Perform
Pittsburgh
New York City
Five Pittsburgh
Centers
Produce New
Choreography

12. Education
Teaching
Educational
research and
consulting
Dance and
Ancillary Arts

13. Career Relationship
Teach
Substitute teacher
Locate a university
to grant certification
in a part time
program
Consult
Enroll in class to
improve teaching
leading to
instruction of other
teaching
professionals
Dance
Obtain permission
to perform in a
venue to film a
specific
choreographic work

14. Teaching
Obtained
teaching
certification in
an arts
discipline and
permanent
teaching
position
EducationalResearch
Teaching
voluntarily in a
professional
development
program
DancePerformance
Filming in
venue of choice
free of charge
in exchange for
videotaping
programming
in new cable
franchise

15. Teaching
Teaching in
a permanent
position and
enrichment
activities
EducationalResearchand
Consulting
Obtaining an
advanced
degree and
participating
in programs
as a fellow
Dance
Producing
specials
aired on
local cable
service

16. Acknowledge Change
Curriculum accepted
for after school dance
program with funding
Teaching in
professional
development
program for teachers
Program is accepted
as part of a university
degree program
Dance project for
young people
accepted with
funding by a
mainstream religious
entity

17. Change in Education
• Charter schools, cyber schools, changes in funding
Change in Preparing Self
• Embarking on online educational opportunities
• Second masters degree and superintendent letter of eligibility
Change in Arts Community
• Difficulty locating new dancers and regular dancers
• Revisiting/refreshing classic modern dance techniques

18. Education
•Life beyond the
teaching career
•Presenting
educational
workshops and
professional
development
presentations
EducationalResearchandConsulting
•Pursuing a
doctorate
•E-learning and
Educational
Technology
focus
DanceandancillaryArts
•Dance in an
electronic world
•Ancillary arts of
the dance
•Music
•Fiberarts
•Video
•Photography