IOTPD
International Organization for the Transition of Professional Dancers
Associates
United Kingdom
Dancers' Career Development
Dancers’ Career Development is ambitious for dancers’ futures. Our mission is to enable and empower dancers to thrive professionally and personally leading up to and during career transition. DCD offers a throughline of support from dancers vocational training to their retirement. We are here for every professional dancer working in the UK, at every career stage and across all dance genres.
DCD believes in the power and potential of dancers to excel in any profession they choose to pursue at the end of their performance career. We remove barriers to career progression through a bespoke range of services including personal and professional development workshops, retraining grants, coaching and mentoring: that enable dancers to progress into new roles in and beyond the creative industries.
We promote awareness of dancers’ innate qualities and transferable skills, raise aspirations and build confidence, to help nurture the remarkable talent pipeline of dance artists who will become the next generation of doctors, lawyers, CEOs, scientists, film-makers, choreographers, florists, creative leaders and so much more.