Street Performer Legal, Social & Cultural Professionals

History of street performance and street art traditions.

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.

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.

Convey the artistic values of the art form(s). Respond to the reactions of your audience and involve them.

Maintain portfolios of artistic work to show styles, interests, abilities and realisations.

Memorise your role in a performance or broadcast, whether it is text, movement, or music.

Perform in front of live audiences.

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.

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 …

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.

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 …

Use bodily actions to interrupt and interact with the structure of the public space.

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 …

Adapt the public space for a street arts performance.

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.

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 …

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.

File and organise personal administration documents comprehensively.

Plan, monitor and report on the budget.

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, …

Manipulate purpose-built or improvised instruments to produce musical sounds.

Select pieces of music for a live performance. Consider factors such as ensemble abilities, availability of scores and the need for musical variety.

Demonstrate degrees of maturity by fully understanding one's own qualities and abilities which can serve as sources of confidence in different situations.

Use the voice to produce musical sounds, marked by tone and rhythm.

Act in front of an audience, according to an artistic concept.

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.

Manipulate objects and images to create optical illusions.

Perform on a level accessible to children and young adults, whilst also censoring unadvisable content.

Share humourous expressions with audience, eliciting laughter, surprise, other emotions, or a combination thereof.

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 …

Use and understand body language, gestures and other paralinguistic cues.