Street performer jobs in Finland
Street performers create street arts performances for outdoor spaces, using space and audience as a creative resource. They create their performance through playful exploration and experimentation with the purpose of entertaining and possibly also of sharing critical opinions concerning societal issues. They stimulate audience participation as a component of their performance whilst respecting the audience's safety and integrity.
Street performer - Which skills are essential?
Perform in front of live audiences.
Accept feedback, proposed discussions and avenues of exploration about the precision of movements, rhythm, musicality, precision of the performance, interaction with peers and stage elements, areas requiring improvement. Take feedback into account to develop the potential as performer. Note the choreographers/repetiteur/dance master instructions, the instructions of other collaborators (dramaturge, performers/dancers peers, musicians, etc.) assuring being in the same page with direction team.
Maintain portfolios of artistic work to show styles, interests, abilities and realisations.
Ensure that other workers and clients are treated with respect and that appropriate civil liability insurance is in place at all times of instructing.
Encourage the audience to share a different perspective on objects, themes, artefacts, etc. Use the visit or the mediation activity as an opportunity to experience an open space for dialogue and getting to know each other. The very moment must heighten a better understanding of broad, social processes, issues, and their various representations.
Promote yourself by joining networks and circulating promotional material such as demos, media reviews, website, or a biography. Form a promotion and management team. Propose your services to future employers or producers.
The history of art and artists, the artistic trends throughout centuries and their contemporary evolutions.
Take the necessary precautions to ensure the physical safety of an audience or people visiting an activity. Prepare actions in case of emergency. Administer first aid and direct emergency evacuations.
Understand, analyse and describe your own performance. Contextualize your work in one or various styles, trends, evolution, etc. Self-evaluate your work in rehearsals and performances.
Convey the artistic values of the art form(s). Respond to the reactions of your audience and involve them.
Memorise your role in a performance or broadcast, whether it is text, movement, or music.
Use bodily actions to interrupt and interact with the structure of the public space.
Develop one's own ways of doing artistic performances, motivating oneself with little or no supervision, and depending on oneself to get things done.
Apply the safety rules according to training and instruction and based on a solid understanding of the prevention measures and risks to your own personal health and safety.
History of street performance and street art traditions.
Adapt the public space for a street arts performance.
Gather samples of the materials you expect to use in the creation process, especially if the desired piece of art necessitates the intervention of qualified workers or specific production processes.
Street performer - Which skills are useful but not essential?
Use and understand body language, gestures and other paralinguistic cues.
Select pieces of music for a live performance. Consider factors such as ensemble abilities, availability of scores and the need for musical variety.
Tell a true or ficticious story so as to engage an audience, having them relate with the characters in the story. Keep the audience interested in the story and bring your point, if any, across.
Plan, monitor and report on the budget.
Perform in artistic productions of differents disciplines such as classical ballet, modern dance, contemporary dance, early dance, ethnic dance, folk dance, acrobatic dances and street dance.
Create and develop educational resources for visitors, school groups, families and special interest groups.
Handle petty cash for minor expenses and transactions required for the daily running of a business.
Demonstrate degrees of maturity by fully understanding one's own qualities and abilities which can serve as sources of confidence in different situations.
Develop speeches, activities and workshops in order to foster access and comprehension to the artistic creation processes. It can address a particular cultural and artistic event such as a show or an exhibition, or it can be related to a specific discipline (theatre, dance, drawing, music, photography etc.). Liaise with storytelles, craftspeople and artists.
Perform on a level accessible to children and young adults, whilst also censoring unadvisable content.
Manipulate purpose-built or improvised instruments to produce musical sounds.
Create an emotional connection with the audience through your performance. Engage the audience with sadness, humour, anger, any other emotion, or a combination thereof, and let them share your experience.
File and organise personal administration documents comprehensively.
Act in front of an audience, according to an artistic concept.
Use the voice to produce musical sounds, marked by tone and rhythm.
Manipulate objects and images to create optical illusions.
Participate in cultural and artistic mediation activities: announce the activity, give a presentation or talk related to a piece of art or an exhibition, teach a class or a group, lead artistic mediation activities, lead or participate in a public discussion.
Share humourous expressions with audience, eliciting laughter, surprise, other emotions, or a combination thereof.