Jenny Accettura is a registered dietician and the founder of Center Stage Nutrition. With a 17-year history in dance that included ballet, contemporary and Scottish dancing, she understands the unique challenges that dancers face in fueling for performance with unrealistic body image expectations. Her passion is helping aspiring professional and retired dancers fuel optimal performance and build a healthy relationship with food through one on one counseling and nutritional workshop.

In this episode, Jenny shares what it really takes to lean into your responsibility to fuel your body the right way. She addresses the importance of proper decision-making when it comes to a dancer’s nutrition, debunking what we’re taught by teachers and the beliefs that we have as dancers.

Resources

Center Stage Nutrition Website: https://centrestagenutrition.com/
Center Stage Nutrition Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/centrestagenutrition
Center Stage Nutrition Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/centrestagenutrition/

Thank you for listening,

So much ♥,

Susanne & Gina

Christy & Susanne connecting this week over events in their lives this past week. Come join us with no judgment. We are holding space to learn, laugh, and downright pointe at ourselves.

In the performing arts, we are so clung to a certain way success needs to look, and if we're not getting there, we never made it. In this episode, we challenge you to think about what success really means to you—not the industry, not your friends, not your parents, not your teachers, but you. Christy and I also share our former experiences and perspectives of what success looked like and what success looks like to us now.

Thank you for listening,

So much ♥,

Susanne & Christy

In this episode, Gina and I discuss how you can have the power to make your own choices in the dance industry where the teacher is considered the wise one and you are the student. We brainstorm ways in which dancers can gain awareness of their freedom. We uncover the responsibility of having freedom and how we as dancers can be much more powerful once we take that responsibility. Gina and I then share tips to gain awareness of where we are.

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So much ♥,

Susanne & Gina

Susanne is joined by Rachel this week as they record live together and discuss R.I.S.E Media's New York City artists networking event this week. We wanted to open that space up for other performing artists who understand that you don't have to do it alone, even though you know, the industry portrays that picture still. It's in our power to truly change that. 

Thank you for listening,

So much ♥,

Susanne & Rachel

New York City artists networking event

Ali Phillips began her career after founding Bust a Move Dance, one of Australia's first inclusive dance companies for children, teens, and young adults with disabilities in 2009. She was only 17 at that point in unparalleled experiences in the dance education and business space. While also establishing herself as a represented leader, Ali discovered a passion for creating inclusive communities. Currently living in Toronto and specializing as an embodied leadership coach for dance and fitness studio owners, Ali is widely known for her ability to disrupt and challenge the status quo.

In this episode, Ali discusses the dynamics of starting a business at a young age. She shares the need for authenticity, showing up as yourself, and building up the muscle of self-trust in being a young leader in the industry. Ali opens up about the mindset shifts she experienced in her early days. Ali believes that leaders are anyone who sees the potential in other people and are drawn to uplift them.

Resources

• Ali Phillips aliphillips.org
• Bust a Move Dance https://bustamovedance.com.au/
• Bust a Move Dance Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/bustamovedance/
• Bust a Move Dance YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBPznxHU2bA
• Bust a Move Dance Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bamdance_/
• Ali Phillips Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ali_phillips09/?hl=en
• Ali Phillips LinkedIn: https://ca.linkedin.com/in/aliphillipscoach
• Kaboom Coaching Website: kaboomcoaching.com

In this episode of Coffee Chat, Christy and I talk about the cycle of prioritizing work over our mental, physical, and spiritual health. We examine where this habit stems from, how damaging it can be, and the need to break the cycle. We believe that you are worthy and you matter whether you're getting the role or not.

Thank you so much for listening, much ♥,

Susanne

Gina McFadden is a dance educator, choreographer, yoga instructor, health coach and author. Gina danced professionally with The Joffrey Ballet of Chicago, Ballet Pacifica, State Street Ballet and The National Choreographers Initiative. She has been on the faculties of Boston Ballet School, Grand Rapids Ballet School, New Jersey Ballet School, Hope College and Grand Valley State University. Gina has degrees in business and legal studies. She is a certified yoga instructor as well as a Holistic Health Coach working with global clientele. She lives in Charleston, SC with her husband and two daughters where she is an avid home-cook and a highly marginal golfer.

In this episode, we lay the groundwork for a new podcast episode series where we share some of our experiences with aspiring dancers and help you to gain more awareness that what you do in a studio daily is a part of becoming a successful dancer.

Much ❤ Susanne & Gina

Susanne shares that over her latest travel experiences and how she was forced to bring herself into a steady state of reframing the experiences that she was facing. Susanne had a choice to either stop everything, accept it was to much, allow the negative wash over her or reframe the moments to see the lessons, the gifts that were showing up for her.

New York Event August 28th 2021

Alexandra Farber originally from Washington DC began her training at Maryland Youth Ballet and Houston Ballet too. Alexandra has also attended various summer programs, including those offered by the school of American Ballet Theater, San Francisco Ballet School, and the Houston Ballet, Ben Stevenson’s Academy. She joined Texas Ballet Theater in 2012, and in her time there has performed as Odette-Odile, as Aurora in Sleeping Beauty- Atlanta, in Dracula, the Sugarplum, the Snow Queen and Clara in the Nutcracker, the Winter Fairy in Cinderella, and in William Forsythe’s in the Middle Somewhat Elevated. In Ben Stevenson’s Twilight pas de deux and his Four Last Songs. She also performed leading roles in George Balanchine's Allegro Brillante, Jerome Robbins’ The Concert, Glenn Tetley’s Voluntaries, Carlos Acosta’s Carmen, Christopher Wheeldon’s DGV dance, and many more.

Her mixed media art was accepted into Viridian Artist’s New York City, 30 under 30 show in 2021 and her latest choreography, The Way We Change was an official selection in the International Authors Film Festival, and won best dance film from the Silk Road Film Award, Cannes. She is passionate about art-making and supports those who do this on a consistent basis.

In this episode, she shares about not just what 2020 deprived her of, but also her lessons learned, as well as what it brought her. She shares her perspective as an artist, a producer, and a choreographer, and also a creator outside the studio.

Resources

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/farbie/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/alexandra-farber

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexandra-farber

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so much ❤
Susanne.

In business and performing arts today, it feels like you got to fit in and leave your emotions at the door in order to get there. Christy and I challenge this notion. We look at the value of accepting and showing your emotions when you walk into the studio. This challenges the industry’s perspective which views emotions as a sign of weakness and inability to do the job. We bring our personal experiences in the industry and explain reasons why you should involve your emotions in what you do.