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Artists Becoming is elevating standards of well-being across the performing arts industry. Join us for conversations with Ballerinas, Broadway Stars, Olympians, Dancers, Artistic Directors & more... Connecting vulnerably with Performers who share lessons learned and reveal the hidden truths behind blood, sweat and tears. Hosted by: Shelby Elsbree & Jessica Cohen Rate/Review/Subscribe to join in our latest Guest Artist convos! IG: @ArtistsBecoming
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This week, we’ve mined the rich AB archives for gems from conversations with THE Lynne Charles, Leah Smart, and Karine Plantadit. The well of this wise council reaches deep—be it indulging strengths, leaving comfort zones behind, or embracing the evolution of your artistry—these take-aways are for keeps 👑x3 Enjoy! 🪞💫Follow the 👑Council: @charlynballet @leah__smart@karineplantadit
Kara Duval embodies the word teacher in its every essence. From managing her relationship with criticism (as a former dancer) to building a business around her core compass, Kara has unlocked a lifetime of movement freedom for herself, and the loyal following that tunes into Range, her stunning platform offering sustainable movement classes. Enjoy the awe-inspiring journey of her Becoming. 💫💫💫Follow Kara Duval: @karaduvalpilatesrange.karaduvalpilates.com
Dani Rowe is redefining leadership as the Artistic Director of @Oregon.ballet.theatre. Discover her path to becoming a world-class choreographer, what fuels her creative process, and how she translates her past, perspective, and position to lead with intention. Enjoy! 💫💫💫 Follow Dani Rowe: @_danirowe_@oregon.ballet.theatrePhoto credit: Alexander Reneff-Olson
In Part 2 of ‘Becoming Beyond the Stage’, we welcome two more brilliant minds to the career transition conversation—Desean Taber and Kirsten Evans. What a gift it is to learn from their thought processes, career insights, and impassioned journeys towards roles & realizations beyond the stage. In intimate voice notes, these lovely artists indulge us in reflections of their becoming, sure to inspire and empower our own. Please enjoy and share with a friend 💛Follow Desean Taber:IG: @deseanta...
Giuliana Hazelwood is bridging the gap between art and medicine. Tune in to hear how her work as the Director of Health & Wellness at Joffrey Ballet School in NYC (and over here @bedside.manner) challenges the dysfunctional narratives we too often subscribe to, and provides artists with tools to heal and protect our mental health. Enjoy! 💫💫💫Follow Giuliana Hazelwood: IG: @bedside.manner
In this new format for Artists Becoming, we dive deep on a theme close to our hearts and the Artists Becoming community - Career transitions. With two magnificent artists and humans who have chosen to continue their careers beyond the stage, we ask the questions that so many artists reflect on and ponder while making leaps to new chapters. How do we continue to evolve beyond our artform? Who are we beyond the stage? When do we know that it is time to make a departure from the stage lights we’...
Susan Magsamen is an expert in neuroaesthetics—a field that highlights the power of art and aesthetic experiences to heal and transform our brains and bodies. This conversation offers an indulgent dive into her deep well of wisdom. From managing uncertainty and skill transfer to nostalgia and embodiment, we discuss a sweeping range of subjects covered at length in a book she recently co-authored with Ivy Ross: Your Brain on Art: How the Arts Transform Us. Please enjoy. 💫💫💫Follow Susan Magsame...
Maria Kochetkova is the definition of ingenuity—from her original studio style to her value-driven career moves, she’s paving courageous paths for ballet dancers to take ownership over their roles and relationships with performance art. We chat about exercising autonomy in dance as a profession, the pressing need for female representation in choreography, and how Maria is embracing vulnerability—both on and off stage—to gear up for her “most important work yet,” motherhood. Enjoy! 💫💫💫Follow M...
Marika Molnar’s name precedes her. A veteran artist with a sixth sense for healing, the magic of her mind & touch has kept our nation’s top dancers performing at their peak for over 22 years. As NYCB’s original (and current) on-site physical therapist, a dance educator, acupuncturist and nutritionist, Marika brings a holistic consideration to injuries, leveraging active listening skills and a mindful intuition to manage the most stressful—and threatening—moments of a dancer’s career. Her ...
Zachary Downer is an esteemed stage-to-screen artist who’s elevating every field he touches… from Ballet to Broadway (CATS the Musical and Hello, Dolly!) to the Big Screen (Annie Live!), this one is Showing. Up. Differently. Here’s your invitation to marinate on the journey of an intentional creator who’s relied on faith, mentorship, and sit-down chats with himself to build a career as beautiful as he is—from the inside, out. To know him is to love him. Please enjoy this shooting-star of a hu...
What an honor to welcome Eva Draw the Artists Becoming roster. An honor’s graduate of the Bolshoi Ballet School, former Principal Ballerina with the Moscow Stanislavsky Ballet Theater, a world-renowned Ballet Mistress and teacher (National Ballet of Canada and Royal Danish Ballet), current Dance faculty for UNCSA and newly-minted memoir author. Eva has been sculpting the next generation of Artists for over 20 years after a 15 year-long career of gracing international stages herself. Join in a...
Mega-talent Jim Nowakowski is a dancer with BalletMET, a TikTok sensation, So You Think You Can Dance finalist, and an all-around Artist Becoming from tip to toe. The inspiring, original path of this Artist gave us all the chills—no doubt the story of his perseverance to the craft, commitment to the climb & intentional embodiment will leave you smiling from the inside out. Follow: IG: @ jimnowakowskiTik Tok: jimnowakowski
In this expansive, love-fest of a conversation, Leah Smart provides us with psychological tools & empowering permission to deconstruct our relationships with identity, our ‘calling,’ our spirituality, and our fruitless yearning to engineer certainty as Artists, becoming. We breakdown the Vulnerability equation involved with switching the script of “the Movies we’re living in” 🎬🤯We trade the limiting question of ‘What do you do?’ with the freeing (yet intimidating) alternative: ‘Who am I?’...
Ashley Bouder, a world-renowned Artist and Principal Ballerina with the NYCB, has been gracing the world’s stages with her talent since the start of her career and early rise to stardom. From navigating reviews and criticism to embodying much-needed change in dance culture, we cover all realms of Artistic agency, dance partner relationships and normalizing motherhood among elite athletes. Ashley invites us inside the ups and downs of her extraordinary ascent— Lean in and listen loud to the st...
It’s our highest honor to seal off Season One of the Artists Becoming Podcast with THE luminous Restless Creature herself: #HRH Wendy Whelan. While the journey of this fine Artist’s blossoming is well known, the generosity of her conversation held us captive in the singular way her talent lit up stages across the globe for over 30 years. Join us, in welcoming this world-wide renowned Ballerina, choreographic muse, teacher, coach and current Associate Artistic Director of New York City Ballet....
Close your 👀 & raise your hands if you’ve ever been caught up in the great, big, all-too-sticky puddle of commiseration (🙋🏼♀️🙋🏻♀️) …whether it’s dressing room drama or backstage banter, misery loves company for a reason. Join us as we navigate a hard topic & offer some reframes that hold us accountable for the energy we bring & leave behind. Send to a friend, the group chat, maybe that real one that you can truly count on to bring the good vibes .Follow us on IG:@artistsbecoming...
Kathleen Breen Combes is a Megawatt-Super-SHEro & definitive Artist, becoming. In this intimate conversation with our first Artist-turned-Artistic Director, @Kbreencombes guides us along her unique journey from a childhood calling to dance to redefining the role of Principal with Boston Ballet. Now the Director of @FestivalBalletProvidence, Kathleen integrates lessons from every deterrent, distraction and empowered conversation, informed by her dynamic career as a Ballerina. Join us as we...
In today's SCBT, we draw from @AdamGrant's widely circulating @nytimes article 'There's a Name for the Blah You're Feeling: It's Called Languishing'😐Join us as we map the "...dominant emotion of 2021" onto our own experience with navigating through & beyond artistic ruts & realities. We'll travel through the murky moments towards flow & for goodness sake you're invited because Community, y'all. Let's go at it together.Follow us on IG @artistsbecomingSubscribe to the Podcast!Share ...
Welcoming THE Lloyd Knight to the AB roster today! Lloyd is a one-of-a-kind, Principal dancer with The Martha Graham Dance Company, a Guest Artist with Royal Ballet of Flanders, a model and teacher to boot. Join in as he unpacks the influence of Graham technique on his groundedness as a whole-person, and reflects on how his 16-year tenure with a company known for reshaping American dance has taken unique and inspiring form. Follow Lloyd’s Becoming: @lloydknight Subscribe to the Pod...
As performing artists, we’re no stranger to expressing ourselves… through our bodies, through the music, & beneath the bright lights. But what about expressing our voice (& no we aren’t talking a choir solo or an 8 bar cut)? Today we dig into the topics of learning how to navigate challenging conversations, communicating clearly and intentionally, finding power in the big “no”, and asking the right questions. Who/What/Where/When/Why? Y’all!Follow us on IG@artistsbecomingwww....
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