Artists Becoming

After her 20 year-long career (!!!) with the San Francisco Ballet, Principal Ballerina Sarah Van Patten is ready to rechannel her many gifts. Join us in conversation with ‘SVP’ as she reflects on the formative moments of her rise, revisiting roles, and her intentional search for finding, forming & investing in community both on and off stage. 

Dr. Linda Hamilton is nothing short of a Dance World Luminary. You’ve likely lent ears & eyes to her expertise as an advice columnist for Dance Magazine. After her career with the NYCB, Dr. Hamilton took her talents beyond the stage… to serve the very artists who fill it, as a clinical psychologist. Join us in conversation over mind/body connection, adaptive standards, the challenge/potential of supporting perfectionists, and proactive fatigue management, just to name a few. 

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Read: The Dancer's Way: The New York City Ballet Guide to Mind, Body, and Nutrition 

www.Drlindahamilton.com

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 Becoming feeds, fuels, and makes possible those of so many others.

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 human being and true artist, becoming. 

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IG: @zachdestyn 

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 as Eva shares her passion for cultivating young talent by challenging long-standing industry approaches to coaching, while embodying mindful leadership. 

Read: On a personal note…: The world of ballet and beyond through the eyes of a dancer, teacher, and educator available on Amazon

Today on SCBT, it’s a #tbt to that v first partnering class—you know the one. “Playing” with weight balance in sous sous and negotiating physical needs without the verbal words to express them. Hop back in with us as we reflect on the good ol’ confusing (often frustrating) days of “Partnering 101” and propose a reframe: “Relationships 101” …a dance-for-two class in communication that serves far beyond the studios and stages.

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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. 

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IG: @ jimnowakowski
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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?’ … We gush over Positive Psychology’s study of human flourishing, and our collective pursuit of *contentment* — Get your “Me Lists” ready & listen loudly… this one’s chock full of gems, just like our resident, slash-career specialist, @leah__smart💫

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 story of her Becoming.

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IG: @ashleybouder
Ashley Bouder Project: https://www.theashleybouderproject.com/

Dancers Amplified: https://www.dancersamplified.com

Ashley’s Children’s Book: ‘Welcome to Ballet School’ https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0711251282/creativepubco-20

t’s a #wrap on Season 1 y’all and we’re staying calm*

*freaking OUT Join us as we re-cap 20 mind-blowing, heart-expanding conversations with Artists, Becoming across stages, studios, rinks, fields & screens… The @ArtistsBecoming Podcast has gathered Ballerinas, Broadway Stars, Olympians, Dancers, Artistic Directors & more...connecting vulnerably with Creatives who share lessons learned and reveal hidden truths behind the Performing Arts' most potent “ingredients”. Season 1 has been a whirlwind of wisdom—Yours for the listening, learning & returningStay tuned for Season & a handful of SCBT’s coming your way… enJOY.A special thanks to our dream roster of generous Guests:

@theharperwatters
@meryledavis
@devon.teusch
@dylan.moscovitch
@madisonkeesler
@karineplantadit
@mfairchild
@garenscribner
@4pointe
@conholl
@kathryn_morgan
@sabrinamiko
@josephwalshsf
@georgina_pazcoguin
@damngoodyoga
@jscribs
@gracedplace
@chloe.angyal.writes
@lloydknight
@kbreencombes
@wendyw