Tanner Dance's accompanists are responsible for providing inspiring, skillful, improvised piano and/or percussion music during our dance classes for children at the Tanner Dance building on the U of U campus, and/or at elementary schools throughout the Salt Lake area. The musician's improvisations are expected to follow and respond to visual cues and verbal instructions from the dance teachers they work with. In other words, our musicians must be able to creatively modify their music from moment to moment to mirror the observed energies, tempos, accents, cues, and counts that the dancers are exploring in the class.The accompanist's role is a part-time position with various weekly shifts available starting in August 2024. Depending on our needs and your availability to commit to certain weekly class times, you could be scheduled to accompany anywhere between 2 hours/week and 19 hours/week.The following two programs are the primary source of work hours available for Tanner Dance's musicians:1. Tanner Dance Studio program This program offers weekly creative/modern dance classes for dancers ages 218 at the Tanner Dance building on the University of Utah campus. Every Studio dance class is taught by one of our experienced teaching artists and assigned a musician to provide live accompaniment each week. Studio classes take place on weekdays mostly between 3:45 PM and 9:00 PM, and on Saturdays between 9:15 AM and 1:15 PM in other words, mostly outside of the hours when children would be in school. Musicians for this program may sometimes be expected to memorize and be ready to play several traditional children's songs for the younger classes, in addition to their regular improvised accompaniment. All weekly classes in the Studio program's 2024-25 session will begin the week of August 19, 2024.2. Arts-in-Education (AIE) program Throughout the school year, Tanner Dance's AIE program provides weekly dance classes in elementary schools throughout the Salt Lake area, offering K-6 students a chance to experience an age-appropriate, semester-long or trimester-long class with one of our teaching artists, accompanied by one of our musicians. As such, all classes that are part of the Arts-in-Education program take place during the school day (8:15 AM at the very earliest to 3:45 PM at the very latest). Musicians will be responsible for arranging their own transportation to the schools where they play; compensation is available for using one's own vehicle to travel between two or more schools in the same day. Weekly classes in the AIE program's 2024-25 session will begin in late August / early September 2024. Whereas our Studio class schedules remain consistent over the course of the academic year, AIE class schedules can sometimes change at the beginning of the trimester or semester at our partner schools.