Made for Dancers
Build a Reel and Headshot Package That Gets the Right Auditions
Also useful for: people in Creative
150 min
Advanced
Creative
Dancer
Advance Your Career
Career outcome:
Build an Asset
Build a focused reel and headshot system around the dance jobs you want, the proof casting teams need, and the assets worth improving next.
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Use this when
Your reel feels broad, dated, too long, or disconnected from the auditions you want. Your headshots look polished but don't support clear casting lanes. You're preparing for a new market, representation outreach, or a run of higher-value submissions.
You'll need
- Target Work
- Market and Submission Context
- Casting Evidence
- Current Package Status
- Footage Inventory
- Headshot Inventory
- Practical Constraints
- Rights and Usage Notes
You'll get
- Primary and secondary casting lanes ranked by evidence
- Every current asset assigned a clear use or removal decision
- Missing footage and image priorities ranked
- Reel structure documented with specific clip directions
- Lead headshots matched to primary casting lanes
- Rights and technical risks flagged
By the end of this playbook
You will have:
- Primary and secondary casting lanes ranked by evidence
- Every current asset assigned a clear use or removal decision
- Missing footage and image priorities ranked
- Reel structure documented with specific clip directions
- Lead headshots matched to primary casting lanes
- Rights and technical risks flagged
Sample
This is sample data, not your prompt. Pro unlocks this higher-stakes Playbook. On Free Playbooks you can still copy the assembled prompt into any AI.
Sample input
Target work: Commercial tour, music video, and televised live performance work in Atlanta and Los Angeles. Casting evidence: Repeated callbacks for grounded commercial choreography, featured ensemble work, and camera-focused artist pieces. Footage: Six class clips, one artist performance, one music video excerpt, and one rehearsal capture. The artist performance has the clearest role visibility. Two class clips are polished but visually similar. Headshots: One clean commercial image, one dramatic editorial image, and two smiling lifestyle images. Constraints: Five-week deadline, one short studio shoot, and four editing hours. Rights: Artist performance and two class clips cleared. Music video permission unknown.
Sample assembled prompt
Primary lane 1: Commercial artist performance... Clear front-line placement, grounded groove, clean... Decision: Open the main reel with... Cut before the wide formation change... Primary lane 2: Camera-focused music video... Strong facial performance and lens awareness,... Decision: Use as temporary support. Replace with a controlled camera combination... Archive: Class clip 5 Reason: Duplicates... Lead headshot: Clean commercial image Use:... Risk: Editorial image signals a darker... Top gap: Production-quality camera choreography with... Smartest fix: Film one 30-second studio... Main reel target: 58-72 seconds Opening:...