Kick Ball Change Podcast

This exploding TWO ACT Podcast should inspire anyone and EVERYONE.

Miss Heather Wilson defies the dance world, and finds creative ways to Kick Ball Change her way through life.

Follow her journey as a young dancer, who was faced with enough kick ball changes to make anyone quit. She pushed right through and found her PIVOT into dance education. The Kick Ball Changes continue from starting Non-profits dance programs, opening dance studio space, navigating heartache and raising power-willed children.

Heather is the director and leader of Baa Baa Ballet https://www.baabaaballet.com/

A comprehensive preschool dance education program, and recently launched her latest project, Grunt if you Understand!

https://www.gruntifyouunderstand.com/

A fundamental program applying visceral learning with science to strengthen young dancers in Ballet.

We hope you are just as inspired after ACT I, you begin to let your kick ball changes move you forward, and not get hung up on them. Sometimes too a kick ball change can last an 8 count or 8 years.

You decide if you get better or bitter.

How do you navigate the path, when the path feels like it falls through?

Tune into this inspiring podcast with Miss Miranda Spada, who realized she was in a BIG kick ball change, but was presented with an opportunity in a moment, and she took the chance, and faced the change, which opened the doors to her heart in what she KNEW she was destined to do.

She is currently the Competition Director at Tonawanda Dance Arts and also directs and runs her own Mentorship Program called L.E.A.D.

This program facilitates the growth of individuals who are looking to enhance their training and work towards pursuing a possible career in dance. She enjoys giving her students opportunities in and out of New York that

enhance their dance journeys. She is involved with the More Than Just Great Dancing Organization under Misty Lown and is also certified in Progressing Ballet Technique (PBT) Levels 1 and 2 as well as ProgressingContemporary Technique. She is also certified in Modules 1, 2 and 3 of Alixa Flexibility. She is

also a Mental Wellness Certified Dance Adjudicator.

Miranda is an adjudicator with many organizations within the Industry including IMPACT Dance Adjudicators, AMP Dance Competition where she also runs and directs their new Ambassador Program, Beyond The Stars, Breakout, Guidance Dance Experience and American Dance Awards. She loves being able to pass on her education and passion to the next generation.

Our students need sensory inputs and at earlier ages. The arts provide tools, as healthy outlets"

Join us on the Kick Ball Change as we welcome Miss Crystal Bacon, a leading Arts Director in North Carolina. She brings us into how she spear-headed changes as an administrator to bring in more arts based programs in the dance schools and local preschools. As a former dancer, she leans into her kick ball change moments of motherhood, and how she embraced them, by stepping into the admin role as she understands the power that the arts can provide.

She is now leading teams, through the support of the State to educate other teachers and parents in the importance of early arts education.

The more children and educators understand the power of the arts, and how they help heal and grow, by allowing both educators and students to lean into them, compassion and kindness will continue to flourish.

This talented dancer and choreographer did not let the challenges of her Kick Ball Changes to hold her back. Miss Tess Ripepi takes us into her journey of performing and traveling and offers us key insights on WHY it is so important to stay connected. You never know the opportunities that can unfold for you when you show up and ask.

As the Head Coach of Charlotte's Dance Team, Tess  continues to foster a supportive environment for dancers to thrive. She understands the need of community in the dance world, and through her creative guidance, and skillful instruction she has been “leveling up” dancers for several years.

Her journey of “LEVELING UP” led her to opening the doors to the expansive Charlotte , NC training program Level Up Dance. This training program, under the direction of Tess was fostered through her own journey of professional dance and performance training.

Level Up Dance isn't just another dance studio –it’s a launchpad for aspiring dancers aged 5-17 to excel in the entertainment industry.

Our mission is to transform passionate dancers into powerful professionals, offering an array of exclusive opportunities. Experience personalized coaching, diverse classes, and a supportive community. As part of our program, dancers gain access to my NIL (Name Image & Likeness) agency, direct bookings for TV/Film work in the Southeast market, and comprehensive college & post-graduation guidance.

We are proud to support Tess and the expansion of her Level Up Dance Company. Her summer Master Class Series and Ballet Intensive is up and running, with an Open House August 3rd from 11-1pm.

https://www.levelupdance.io/

They also will be hosting a High School Dance Clinic with the Charlotte Dance Team on July 27th!

Email or contact Tess and Level Up for more!

Life is movement and for this Choreographer, Dancer, and Creative Artist, she did just that. From an early age this talented dancer grew through her KBC moments of being "too tall" and " not fitting in". She used her strengths and found her our inner passion as a creative artist. This thriving and talented dancer endured many kick ball changes in NYC, between roomate and bed bug issues, to finding dancers and space to create in.

Lean in to her journey of never giving up on yourself or your art work. Her most powerful work she choreographed, tackles the plastic epidemic in our oceans.

“Plastic Ocean”

The work began as a site-specific commission for the Westbeth gallery in NYC. From there the work was invited to be expanded and performed at the United Nations Headquarters in NYC, and later another version was invited to the Dzul International Dance Festival in Campeche, Mexico. The work consists of dancers moving throughout a sea of plastic bags wearing costumes by Zachary Alexander and dancing to original music by Bettina Sheppard. The visual of the dancers moving in waves throughout the overwhelming amount of plastic is quite striking. The bags almost create a type of water-like movement onstage to dance in, but the gravity of the message creates a bittersweet memorable image for audience members.

Join us on this incredible journey of the mystical choreographer and

professional dancer, Miss Danielle Marie Fusco. Learn about how this creator came into understanding her healing power, by using the healing power of dance. Through overcoming injury, discovering self-discipline, and Kick Ball Changes, this talented and culturally based creator found her way of making an impact on every stage and for every audience she encounters.

Follow her on American Strega where she will be exploring Italian mysticism, magic, spirituality, dance and culture through the lens of an Italian American @american.strega

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@daniellemariefusco

Www.daniellemariefusco.com

Join our guest, the Tap Master himself, Mr Anthony LoCascio, on this incredible Kick Ball Change journey of performing under the stars in Monte Carlo with the stars like Stevie Wonder and more. His incredible journey of tour life with TAPDOGS, led him down the road of understanding health first hand, with a major Kick Ball Change with his physical body. Listen to his captivating journey of wellbeing, health and nutrition and how it played such an important role in his career.

You can find Anthony and his talented wife through https://taplifecompany.com/

You can also experience online classes like no other with this hoofer here:

https://taplifecompany.com/events

A black leotard. Hair in a bun. Dancer ready for her audition.. until reality offers a Kick Ball Change and every other dancer shows up in their sparkle, razzle dazzle attire.. This wasn't a nightmare, but a reality for Miss Casey Noblett's first NBA audition. Join us as she takes you through her creative journey of dancing in her mother's studio with her brother, to the NBA dancer's audition that Kick Ball Changed her way to thrive. Her attention to dancers in the industry has led her to be a leading choreographer as well as a founder of both N-House Productions in 2001 and Commercial Dance Intensive in 2014.

Commercial Dance Intensive offers young dancers a chance to get education, in the skills required to be successful in the professional dance world. CDI has had it's own Kick Ball Change moments, but listen in to how Miss Casey created magic with those moments to make the experience for dancers more impactful.

https://www.commercialdanceintensive.com/

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Join us on the remarkable journey of how Kat Wildish was inspired against all odds to become a leading Prima Ballerina and Dance Educator in the United States.

One school field trip at the age of 8 is all it took, for Miss Kat Wildish to connect to her dream. Ballet. Listen to her Kick Ball Change moments from resistance of guidance counselors who discouraged her dreams of being a dancer, to a dance educator who asked her if she wants to be a big fish in a small pond, or a tiny fish in a big pond.. We are thrilled that Miss Wildish said NEITHER!! She chose to be a big fish in a big pond, dancing her way on stage with the greats, like Rudolf Nureyev, Margot Fonteyn, Cynthia Gregory, and Fernando Bujones. She was hand-picked for NYCB by George Balanchine and for ABT by Mikhail Baryshnikov.

Miss Kat Wildish is still preserving the artistic passion by continuing to educate at Universities and studios in NYC. You can find her full schedule her, and even take classes with her virtually

https://taylorjgordon.wixsite.com/katwildish

https://www.instagram.com/katwildish/

https://gibneydance.org/people/kat-wildish/

Join this creative and talented dance educator/leading professional in the ballet world as he takes us through his Kick Ball Change moments in life. Dive into how they became a foundation for his training, his family, career, and professional journey, which most recently receiving approval by the Balanchine Trust to perform the full “Who Cares?” for the Cary Ballet Conservatory.

From early Kick Ball Change moments of having to use a padlock on his school bag, to having a universal chance to audition for a company director he denied previously. Donnell talks openly about how ego can be a catalyst for young dancers, and as he takes you through his journey of how he let go of his ego of the TOP 5 dance companies to be in, and how that opened the doors to principle dancer, securing contracts for companies dancers in the future and becoming a leading educator with the prestige Cary Ballet Conservatory. His involved work onstage has carried him through the supportive training he offers, as well as his engagement with the ORZA ballet shoe which is using corrective technology to keeps ballet dancers healthy. https://orzabrand.com/collections/orza-pro-one

Check out the Cary Ballet Conservatory, in North Carolina which has an amazing Spring 24 line up: Jill Bahr’s “Alice in Wonderland” and George Balanchine’s “Who Cares?” May 4th in Raleigh, NC.

https://www.caryballetcompany.org/season-tickets-spring-works/

https://www.caryballet.com/about-us