Cultural capital or Habitas of dance

Since the campus session in November,  I have been considering what the cultural capital or habitas of my area of professional practice might be as a dancer. A cultural capital or habitas is basically the underlying, un official code of conduct within your work place but a lot of the time it is not stated, it is simply understood by anyone within the profession. Those from a different work setting may find some aspects of the habitas quite odd.

I came up with the following ideas for a ballet dancer's cultural capital or habitas:

• Appearance: women are expected to have their hair neatly tied back and be well groomed, even just for class or rehearsal. Men have to wear tights or shorts.
• It is not advisable to sit around in the studio, if the dancer is not being used they should be practicing.
• It is not a good idea to obviously shadow another dancer unless you have been asked to do so. If you do the other dancer may become offended and think that you are stealing their part.
• The director's word is final even if you disagree it is not advisable to argue. The dancer needs to just nod and agree a lot of the time.
• Often dancer's are used to close physical contact so it is quite normal to hug each other when greeting. Anyone outside of the profession can find this quite odd!