Artists Becoming

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. Wendy. 🤩👑 💫 

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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 .

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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 lean into the perspective and visibility around leadership she shares... from dismantling administrative hierarchy to guiding a company through a pandemic. This one left us hopeful, energized, and enlightened by the potential for intentional change happening behind the “casting/barre/stage” door. 🤩💛💫

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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.

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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. 

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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!

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Chloe Angyal is a sociologist, media researcher, journalist and published author. Her most recent work, Turning Pointe: How a New Generation of Dancers is Saving Ballet from Itself (May 2021) presents a passionate & deeply informed exposé on Ballet’s present-state, and more importantly, defines calls-to-action for preserving its future. Tune in as we unpack highlights of Chloe’s findings… from the dance world’s ‘Hidden Curriculum’ to its perfectionism epidemic, we unpack predictable mental health consequences of ballet's culture and discuss ways we can show up differently to inspire long-needed change to save an Art we love. 


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It’s a gift to identify with a “Calling” at any point in life… specifically so from the tender ages that most performing artists lean in— and lean in hard. Today’s SCBT unpacks the “velvet handcuff” of following a purpose-driven career path. For the “lucky few” who realize their Callings as professions, boundaries between our passion and our work are easily blurred — often at the cost of a sustainable relationship towards something (or one) that we love. If this resonates, hop in with us for some proactive ways to invest in yourself, while honoring and empowering your Calling for the long run ✌️💫

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Today’s Guest Artist(s) Conversation is a thought-leading, 4-way chat on Self-Care, with veteran Stage Manager Justin Scribner and Self-care Specialist/Coach, Gracy Obuchowicz. Over his 20-year long career of ‘behind the scenes’ magic making, Justin led the backstage helm on 13 Broadway shows including RENT, Rock of Ages & Once on this Island, to name a few… Gracy, the shiny new Author of Selfcarefully, integrates Ayurveda (the “sister science of Yoga”) with practices and guidance around healthy work/life integration. Together, the two meet at an intersection of deep knowledge and profound leadership around self-inquiry-driven, authentic self-care. 

Sit down with us as we unpack the perils/work arounds of Artist’s “non-traditional” schedules, discern numbing behaviors from “self-care,” discuss flexibility around our Artistic identity, and marinate in the vulnerability/necessity of boundary work. This one’s chock full of gems & we’re over here takin’ notes! 🤓📝

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2nd, 3rd….. 4th cast? Understudy energy hard to keep up? Today’s SCBT speaks power to reframing our circumstances, leveraging the power that we DO have to show up and share our talent whether on the stage or in the back corner of the studio. The grass is greener where you water it 🚿🌱
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