Q & A: Dana Wilson
1. What keeps you going in the field of dance? 2. What do you see as a difference in the dance industry today from when you started? 3. What do you think the difference is between training and social media? 4. What are some tools to continue to educate your self and expand your dance and life knowledge? 5. Extra words from the Dana Wilson!
Gina Pero   Creator and Host: The Gina Pero Show: Living Life Full Out Elite Performance Coach Dance/Movement Specialist Speaker   www.ginapero.com

Life Tools from Dana Wilson: Top Performing Artist/Choreographer

Finding the way you naturally move. Her journey into Hip Hop. Being and becoming visible. The importance of habit and ritual. Tracking progress. Social Media. Turning your passion into a profession. Saying “No” and saying “Yes.” Education. Celebrating failure and success. 
Gina Pero   Creator and Host: The Gina Pero Show: Living Life Full Out Elite Performance Coach Dance/Movement Specialist Speaker   www.ginapero.com

Dana's recent feature in Dance Magazine declares her "Anything But A Backup Dancer".  Since her second world tour with Justin Timberlake, she continues to work in commercials, music videos, TV, award shows, and movies (Amazon Prime,Verizon, Bud Lite, Two and a Half Men, The Grammys SNL, Ellen, Dancing With the Stars, American Idol, Shrek 4, and Charlie Wilson’s War). You've seen her along side Justin Bieber, Hozier, Britney Spears, The Backstreet Boys, Kylie Minogue, Florence and the Machine and as a guest choreographer  for SYTYCD season 7.  Dana is one of the leading voices of her community, as Dancers’ Alliance Board member, SAG/AFTRA Ambassador, and recently started her own company, The Bureau of Nonverbal Communication. Her passion for creating capturing and teaching dance illuminates everything she crosses from the worlds biggest stages to smallest cell phone screens.

  Gina Pero   Creator and Host: The Gina Pero Show: Living Life Full Out Elite Performance Coach Dance/Movement Specialist Speaker   www.ginapero.com

Daily tools that will empower you to life life full out. Simple things you can do everyday to live an abundant life. 
  Gina Pero   Creator and Host: The Gina Pero Show: Living Life Full Out Elite Performance Coach Dance/Movement Specialist Speaker   www.ginapero.com  

Luis Salgado is an international performer, director and choreographer, with an acclaimed career on Broadway, film, television, and stages around the world.  

Luis is currently performing in his fourth Broadway musical On Your Feet and is credited as co-choreographer for the remake of “Dirty Dancing”, other film and television credits include choreographing 2 animated films for Dora's Explorer Girls, and music videos for Wonka Inc. and McDonalds' LR1 single Maña y Corazón. As a performer other Broadway credits include, Rocky the Musical, Women on the Verge... and In the Heights.

Luis has directed and/or choreographed stage productions in NYC winning various awards for best choreography and best direction on a few musical productions. Some of the most achieved credits as a creative include Zucotti Park, Song of Solomon, Amigo Duende, Candela Fuerza y Pasion and the 50th Anniversary Concert of Peruvian singer Cecilia Bracamonte.

Luis is grateful to be directing Bountiful, the 2nd Choreographers Festival while being inspired by many other projects that parallel this process including choreographing Daphne’s Dive at the Signature theatre and creating a commissioned piece for The Alvin Ailey School Professional Division.

Gina Pero   Creator and Host: The Gina Pero Show: Living Life Full Out Elite Performance Coach Dance/Movement Specialist Speaker   www.ginapero.com

 

Q & A: Master body worker/healer   1. Why invest in Rolfing as a dancer? 2. In having scoliosis yourself Gina, how has Rolfing changed your life? 3. What is the best way to find a local Rolfer? 4. What does Rolfing/body work give you?  
Gina Pero   Creator and Host: The Gina Pero Show: Living Life Full Out Elite Performance Coach Dance/Movement Specialist Speaker   www.ginapero.com

Pain is equal to our resistant to change. Your body reflects your life. Core. Breath. Listening to our bodies. Posture. Cue’s for body alignment.

Gina Pero   Creator and Host: The Gina Pero Show: Living Life Full Out Elite Performance Coach Dance/Movement Specialist Speaker   www.ginapero.com

Michelle LynRay Dubh’s journey into the body began with Structural Integration in 1993 when she received a 10 session series. It was such a profound life-changing experience and education of the Body/Mind relationship that she wanted to share the work with others. She became a certified practitioner of the Ida P. Rolf Method of Structural Integration in 1997, and received her Advanced Practitioner Certification for Structural Integration in 2015.

 

Gina Pero

Creator and Host: The Gina Pero Show: Living Life Full Out Elite Performance Coach Dance/Movement Specialist Speaker   www.ginapero.com

1. What is the main difference between getting a degree in dance or not? 2. What is a first step for anyone looking to go to school for dance? 3. What specific skills does it take to become a professional dancer that many people don’t think about? 4. You have lived a full time career in the performing arts playing many different roles, what has been the key to this success? 5. What are ways to stay organized?  
Gina Pero

Creator and Host: The Gina Pero Show: Living Life Full Out

Elite Performance Coach Dance/Movement Specialist Speaker   www.ginapero.com

Mentorship: Choosing a dance studio/college: Full time career in the performing arts: Depth of a program/Breath of a program: Knowing you inside and out: Listening to Life speak to you: Art has purpose: Legacy:

 

Gina Pero

  Creator and Host: The Gina Pero Show: Living Life Full Out Elite Performance Coach Dance/Movement Specialist Speaker   www.ginapero.com   Standing in your presence leads your passion into purpose