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How do you, as a dancer or artist, keep on going despite what others say about the performing arts? Why aren't the arts prioritized as much as other things?

I am an undergraduate majoring in dance. I love dance and creating, and I want to be able to pursue this in my future. There are a lot of negative comments and ideas about pursuing the arts for one's future. I know there have been many times when I have felt discouraged and nearly stopped dancing to do something others deem right and traditional.
How does one maneuver around those feelings of discouragement and keep on creating? Why aren't the arts prioritized when art is such an important part of everyone's culture? Without art ,we wouldn't have the majority of what we have now.
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It is people like you that make the world a better place. And I agree we need to keep the Arts alive and well. However, the reality is that dancing is a difficult profession to make a sustainable living. I have a friend who is a beautiful dancer and went out to California to dance and is barely surviving and unable to support herself and now is getting older without anything to fall back on. I would recommend a dual major path. Since you are creative maybe a teaching path where you can teach art and dance on the side or maybe nursing which is a caring field and flexible such that you can also dance. Or maybe a business degree which would allow you to dance and open your own dance studio. Don't put all your eggs in one basket so you can have some other skills to fall back on. But keep on dancing!
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