Dancer interested in doing lighting as a way to earn $
Hey yall I stumbled upon this Reddit community and would love some advice and wisdom as a high school dancer.
I dance during school in our dance program and am also in the Choreography and production class. I really resonate with dancing and I aspire to go to college and major in dance, so the choreography and production class is really helping me build skills as a choreographer and teacher through student teaching original choreography and etc..
A part of our production work is working in the theatre (with our old school lights mixed with some new tech) ,doing lighting design for pieces and learning to operate the light boards. So after all that experience, I am much more interested in learning of the field of lighting design. Could someone drop some knowledge on me ? Is it possible that one could have a dance career AND do lighting? Is there a degree to earn in college?