ballet dance

Guests - Jason Coosner and Addison Holmes 

Hosted By - Courtney Ortiz and Lesley Mealor

In Episode 91 of Making The Impact - A Dance Competition Podcast, Courtney and Lesley discuss the importance of ballet programs in the competitive dance world and hear from industry professionals Jason Coosner and Addison Holmes about their experiences developing strong ballet programs at their respective dance studios.

Topics Include:

•  What a holistic approach to creating a successful ballet program looks like
•  The fears that surround the idea of implementing a ballet program at a competitive studio
•  How to create a ballet program that works for YOUR studio and YOUR students

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• Addison Holmes - @thesaltyballerina

Check out our guests' current projects! 

Icon Dance, Spring 2022 Ballet/Contemporary Competition + Convention www.icondance.org

Mather Dance Company Trans4m Summer Intensive: July 21-23. Open to public ages 5-23
Mather Dance Company Teacher Intensive: August 1-3

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In this episode, Cherelle talks about how she made the decision to  “burn her ship”, quit her full time job, and pursue her passion of sharing her Trinidadian roots through her Caribbean focused dance and fitness company SocaFit. She talks about how imposter syndrome crept in and kept her community smaller. However, once the pandemic hit, she was forced to either go online or close, so she got over her fears and is now serving people internationally. 

Cherelle is a proud Canadian born with deep Trinidadian roots that extend farther than you or I can imagine. Little did she know that important events throughout her upbringing would subconsciously shape her into the professional entertainer and entrepreneur she is today. 

You could say her journey started at a very young age - playing Mas during Cariwest as a baby and growing up playing the steel drums in her father’s band, Trincan Steel Orchestra, for over 10 years. Fast forward to today, now owning her own Caribbean-focused dance and fitness company, SocaFit. Cherelle created SocaFit to allow her to celebrate and share her Trinidadian culture through dance and fitness and to also create programs to enable youth to explore and learn about their own history. What started as her teaching her mother’s friends in a small room has grown to an international audience for both adults and children.

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Experimentation and Inclusivity

In this episode of DanceCast, Silva interviews Eric Kupers, a director, choreographer and performer in the Bay Area. He is the co-director of Dandelion Dancetheater and director of Bandelion (the interdisciplinary ensemble within the company). Eric discusses his experimental approach to dance-making, the creative significance of inclusivity (both in terms of different bodies as well as different artistic genres), his intro to performance through folk dance at his public elementary school and why exposure to dance is imperative in education, and his development of an inclusive dance program at Cal State University East Bay.
Text by Emmaly Wiederholt and photo by Luiza Silva

http://www.dandeliondancetheater.org/
http://keshetarts.org
http://stanceondance.com
https://www.dancemagazine.com

Creating a More Inclusive World

PODCAST BY SILVA LAUKKANEN

In this episode of DanceCast, Silva interviews Marisa Hamamoto, founder and director of Infinite Flow, the first inclusive ballroom dance company in the US. She shares her myriad experiences with inclusion and why it became such an important concept for her, her difficult history pursuing dance before founding Infinite Flow, why the #MeToo conversation needs to be integrated more into the dance world, and how the discovery of ballroom put her on a new trajectory empowering herself and others to dance.
Text by Emmaly Wiederholt

http://stanceondance.com
http://keshetarts.org
http://www.infiniteflowdance.org
https://www.danceusa.org
http://bodyshift.org

In this episode of DanceCast, Silva interviews Wagner Moreira, a Brazilian dancer, choreographer and teacher living and working in Dresden, Germany. Wagner and Silva discuss the in-between place of living in one country but being from another, the role of Wagner’s father in helping him find dance and his choreographic tribute to him 18 years after he took his own life, the use of nudity in dance and the idea of provocation instead of confrontation, the process of making/becoming/identifying as a dancer, and how technology is changing our modern concept of time.
Text by Emmaly Wiederholt

https://wlmoreira.wordpress.com
https://keshetarts.org
https://stanceondance.com
https://bodyshift.org