In this episode of Stage Dive, Jack speaks with Mitch DuBois about the magic of following your interests. They discuss how he signed a contract for Disney without having performed a Cyr wheel act on stage, the early days of TikTok fame and social media, and following your inner compass.

ABOUT MITCHELL DUBOIS

Mitch is an acrobat and performer from Michigan. Specializing in trampwall and trampoline, he played team sports throughout his childhood before transitioning full time to acrobatics at 19. He discovered trampwall in 2020 when he moved to California to live in a commune of acrobats now known as Junktramp during the covid pandemic. Using his film school education, he helped the group leverage social media as their primary source of income to survive the pandemic. Along the way, they helped Mitch learn about trampwall and the circus industry as a whole, which led to him starting his own performing journey.

IG: @duballs

ABOUT JACK DAWKINS 

Jack Dawkins is a storyteller, a rapper, and a poet. He also cooks good food and runs really far. His use of the English language has been compared to Michael Phelps’ performance on Saturday Night Live: Wildly entertaining for none of the reasons you would expect. He is, at his core, and in his music, deeply human, and a lover of excessive comma use. Most importantly, he loves you. 

⁠⁠⁠https://jackdawkinsraps.com/linktree/⁠⁠⁠

ABOUT STAGE DIVE 

“The stories behind your favorite artists. Stage Dive sheds light on the beautiful and precarious process of creating and sharing art with the world.” 

🤔 Thoughtful Questions 

🥹 Vulnerable Answers 

🤓 Much Nerding 

Music: https://open.spotify.com/track/5TMLeqJiL2WMPoAcWKhGZz?si=4e6748ab641b46bc 

SHOW NOTES

0:00 Intro

1:28 Albany, Georgia & Working for Disney

3:29 Culture Shock & Systems

11:40 Trampoline and Communal Living

18:17 Relationship to Social Media

28:01 Creating to Producing 

32:52 Traveling & Hitchhiking

41:10 Energy & Inner Compass

50:55 Advice for Gaining a Mentor & Acrobatics Industry

---

Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/stagedivepodcast/support