By The Dance Plug Canada
The podcast currently has 12 episodes available.
This week, Giulia sits down with professional dancer, mentor and public speaker, Kim Gingras. In this episode, Kim Talks about her mentorship program and promotes self-love and positivity!
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ABOUT KIM GINGRAS
Kim Gingras is a professional dancer, mentor, public speaker and the woman behind KIMSPIRATION and The KIM GINGRAS Experience.
Having worked with the biggest musical icons such as Beyoncé, Jennifer Lopez, Justin Timberlake, Christina Aguilera, Ariana Grande, Meghan Trainor, Madonna, Gwen Stefani, Nick Jonas, and gracing the world’s most prestigious stages on programs like The Super Bowl, The Voice, Ellen DeGeneres, American Idol, Dancing With The Stars, X-Factor and Good Morning America to name a few, Kim has accumulated a tremendous amount of knowledge and experience in her decade long career.
Not only does she exude the talent and the star quality you look for in a performer but she is also known as one of the upmost professional, hardworking, dedicated, passionate and positive female dancers in the business.
Kim has gained the LOVE and RESPECT from not only her peers, but from tens of thousands of fans from around the world. She is an INSPIRATION and MENTOR to so many. Kim constantly promotes SELF-LOVE and POSITIVITY. She loves to encourage everyone to dream big, work hard and love fearlessly. She knows that it took more than just her talent to get to where she is today and she has made it her MISSION to share those valuable lessons, tools, and practices with the world.
Kim Gingras is truly passionate about bringing full awareness to the power of living a LOVEFUL, GRATEFUL and JOYFUL life all while going after your wildest dreams.
LINKS : www.kimgingras.com and @kimgingras
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This week, Giulia sits down with her good friend, Randi Liberman. In this episode, Randi talks about her experience as a professional dancer working stateside and her professional development program, The Virtuous Movement.
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ABOUT RANDI
Born and raised in Montreal, Canada Randi Liberman has been dancing ever since she can remember. With training in a variety of styles including jazz, contemporary and hip hop, Randi's passion for performing pushed her to move to Los Angeles to pursue her dreams further as a professional dancer. Randi has had the opportunity to perform with some of the nations top artists, including Meghan Trainor, Rita Ora and Fifth Harmony to name a few, and has performed in many live stage performances as well as televised award shows, such as the Teen Choice Awards, the iheart radio Much Music Video Awards, Wango Tango, Boy Band, and WeDay. She has also been in music videos for artists such as Rosalia and J.Balvin, Alesso and Anitta and J.Lately. She has gone on tour internationally, performing throughout Asia, Australia and Dubai with artist Dawin on the “Boomshakalakah Tour”, and also toured North America with Bebe Rexha opening for the Jonas Brothers on the “Happiness Begins Tour”. She has worked with the Cirque Du Soleil in their European show “Diva” and competed on “America’s Best Dance Crew” Season 7. Randi has a love for teaching as much as for performing and has coached and choreographed for competitons, television shows as well as live performances. Randi is often brought back to Canada to teach classes, workshops, and to judge competitions; and she has even recently created her own dancer development program, “The Virtuous Movement” to help young dancers learn how to best achieve their own goals and aspirations. She hopes that by sharing her own experiences in her pursuit of happiness through dance, that she can inspire a new generation of young artists to never give up on their dreams. Randi Liberman | Instagram The Virtuous Movement | Instagram Giulia Tripoli | Instagram Movement Apparel | Website | Instagram The Dance Plug Canada | Website | InstagramThis week, Giulia sits down with dance educator, Neil Schwartz. In this episode they talk about breaking the mold as a dancer, creating your own path and as an educator, what we can do to be better as we move forward in the current climate.
ABOUT NEIL SCHWARTZ:
Neil Schwartz has been dancing since the age of seven. After graduating from the University of Maryland and moving to NYC, he has had the privilege to work with Rhapsody James, Luam, Lisette, Chonique, Eric Jenkins, and more. He has choreographed for artists such as ASTR, Bosco, Wynter Gordon, Rome Fortune, Mateo, PUSH PLAY, TT the Artist, Oyinda, RIVRS, and more. He has also had the opportunity to work with Luam as assistant choreographer for Icona Pop on America’s Got Talent and David Letterman.
Neil was hand selected to choreograph the launch of Pharrell Williams’ fragrance, “Girl,” for Sephora. He was also an assistant choreographer with Lisette Bustamante on Girl Generation Hikkup. He was also hand selected to work with actor Channing Tatum as a contributing choreographer for the flashmob seen on The Today Show in promotion for Warner Brothers Magic Mike. He has traveled to Hawaii, Peru, Mexico, Brazil, Croatia, Sweden, Switzerland, Vienna, Argentina, Dominican Republic, Israel, and Italy teaching workshops and was a recipient at the Young Choreographers Festival in 2010 and as a returning guest artist in 2011.
Neil guest teaches at Millennium Dance Complex and Movement Lifestyle in LA. His choreography can be seen on The Today Show, Good Morning America, NBC Live, PBS, World of Dance, Carnival Choreographers Ball (NY/LA), Rhapsody James presents Sirens After Dark, and more.
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This week, Giulia welcomes Derick 'Xclusiv' Robinson to the podcast. In this episode, they both touch on building strong foundations and the importance of your roots and finding happiness within.
ABOUT DERICK
After many years of training at the provincial and national levels of soccer, Derick left his sporting roots behind to explore the world of dance. Starting out as just a hobby, dance has grown into more than just a passion; it’s his way of life. Derick graduated from George Brown Dance’s P106 Commercial Dance Program in 2011. He has had the opportunity to work with such artists as Down With Webster for the 2013 MMVA’s, Divine Brown at the “Toronto New Years Bash” in 2011, and Lady Gaga at the 2011 “Much Music Video Awards”. He is the founder and choreographer for the all male Hip-Hop dance crew, The O.G. Crew (Original Gentlemen). They have competed at World of Dance Toronto, The Canadian Street Dance Championships, and on Much Music’s Best Dance Crew, and performed for Trish at The America’s Next Top Model Live Event in Toronto, which he choreographed. Derick is also a member of the Toronto Raptors North Side Crew.
Over the past few years Derick has developed and refined his own style of dance that is only starting to be exposed to the Toronto scene. His work has been seen at The Bazaar Showcase, On Much Music and at Toronto’s Choreographer’s Ball. He believes that creating a connection between emotion, movement and the music is what makes his choreography so unique. Derick’s choreography is based with Hip-Hop, but he likes to fuse it with other styles such as African and contemporary.
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This week, Giulia sits down with the very inspirational Luca "Lazylegz" Patuelli. In this episode, Luca talks about his journey as a dancer with a physical disability, overcoming adversity and how having a disability can be a strength to discover who you are.
ABOUT LAZYLEGZ
Luca “Lazylegz” Patuelli has been dancing (B-boying) since he was 15-years-old. He has developed a unique dance style incorporating his crutches and the strength in his arms, that has gotten him worldwide recognition. Lazylegz has been featured on Ellen, So You Think You Can Dance Canada, America’s got Talent, and many more. Luca was the segment director and lead performer for the 2010 Vancouver Paralympic Opening Ceremonies. Luca is the founder and creator of the ILL-Abilities™ Crew, an international B-boy crew comprised of the world’s best “ILL-Abled” dancers. Luca also co-founded Projet RAD which was Canada’s first inclusive urban dance program offering people of all ages, all abilities the possibility to participate in accessible dance studios. Luca has been recognized as the Canadian Ambassador for Dance and received a Meritorious Service Medal from the Governor General of Canada for his dance outreach programs.Luca speaks 4 languages (English, French, Italian, and Spanish) and travels the world teaching/sharing his passion for dance to people of all ages and all abilities. Luca is now on planning on combining what he has learned with ILL-Abilities and Projet RAD to take his career to the next level while constantly sharing his message to the world “It’s about taking the bad and making it good” and there are “No Excuses, No Limits”!
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This week, the host of The ARTISTic Process, Giulia Tripoli discusses how one can figure out their why and how one can create change.
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This week, Giulia welcomes Danièle-Jocelyne Otou to The ARTISTic Process!
Daniele-Jocelyne Otou is a brand strategist, entrepreneur, and social engagement enthusiast. Originally from Cameroon, Daniele-Jocelyne moved to Canada from Senegal at age 4, where she grew up as an engaged youth, involved in many youth organizations. 5 years ago, while bed ridden from a difficult pregnancy, Daniele created and launched FemaleDepartment.com, a collective for women whose mission is to facilitate conversations and experiences -both online and IRL. She now also works at Apathy Is Boring, Canada’s official Youth Get Out The Vote Organization, where she’s merging her passion for brand strategy and community work.
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The Artist(ic) Process is brought to you by Movement Apparel. Combining a love of fashion and dance, this Montreal-based family-owned company creates comfortable, affordable streetwear to help artists feel their best so they can create their best. Inspired by 90s retro style, the colourful unisex gear is natural, eco-friendly and antibacterial to help eliminate odour and sweat while inspiring dancers to give it their all. A believer in artists supporting artists, Movement Apparel has pledged to donate 5% of their sales to the Fondation des Artistes to help the community as we get through the pandemic together.
Visit movementapparel.ca and use Code: iamanartist for 15% off at checkout.
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This week, Giulia sits down with Facilitator, Coach and Speaker and an inclusivity and diversity specialist, Dr. Todd Jenkins.
Dr. Jenkins is a certified Leadership Management International Facilitator, Coach and Speaker with more than 10 years of training and development, leadership development, and diversity and inclusion work experience. He is an award-winning chef diversity executive, trainer and strategist. He has worked with several clients, 1:1, small and large businesses and organizations throughout Europe, South America, Asia and North America. He has spoken to crowds as large as 30,000 and trains groups inside fortune 500 companies, colleges and universities and various non-profits. He spends his life dedicated to helping others see their greatness through education, exposure and best practices. His inspiration, energy and motivation have been said to move mountains.
Dr. Jenkins continues to explore his strong passions through research and practices in leadership training and development for individuals and organizations, youth services and development and intercultural conversations. In particular, Todd’s doctoral dissertation focuses on Management, Leadership, Supervision, and Retention as it relates to the Minority and Millennium Professionals. Outside of work, he is active in his community, an international traveler and spends his time enjoying family and friends.
He works continually to cultivate new and exciting collaborations and push the boundaries of his creations. He reminds himself daily of a quote he heard from one of his idols Debbie Allen “If you stay ready, you never have to get ready” and this is exactly what he is doing - remaining constantly ready for the next phase of his career.
—— The Artist(ic) Process is brought to you by Movement Apparel. Combining a love of fashion and dance, this Montreal-based family-owned company creates comfortable, affordable streetwear to help artists feel their best so they can create their best. Inspired by 90s retro style, the colourful unisex gear is natural, eco-friendly and antibacterial to help eliminate odour and sweat while inspiring dancers to give it their all. A believer in artists supporting artists, Movement Apparel has pledged to donate 5% of their sales to the Fondation des Artistes to help the community as we get through the pandemic together. Visit movementapparel.ca and use Code: iamanartist for 15% off at checkout. _____ Hollywood Jade | Instagram Sarah Steben Photography | Instagram Jaime Kastner Copywriting | Contact Giulia Tripoli | Instagram Roy Urbanozo | Instagram The Dance Plug Canada | Instagram | WebsiteThis week, Giulia sits down with the host of The Very Vulnerable Podcast, Lindsay Tompkins. As a Social Media Trainer, Podcast Host, Consultant and Coach, Lindsay Tompkins is an inspiration to the community by simply being unapologetically herself. In this episode, she gives incredible insight on the importance of being vulnerable, feeling confident in your own skin and understanding how to truly listen.
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The Artist(ic) Process is brought to you by Movement Apparel. Combining a love of fashion and dance, this Montreal-based family-owned company creates comfortable, affordable streetwear to help artists feel their best so they can create their best. Inspired by 90s retro style, the colourful unisex gear is natural, eco-friendly and antibacterial to help eliminate odour and sweat while inspiring dancers to give it their all. A believer in artists supporting artists, Movement Apparel has pledged to donate 5% of their sales to the Fondation des Artistes to help the community as we get through the pandemic together. Visit www.movementapparel.ca and use Code: iamanartist for 15% off at checkout.
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Photo of Giulia Tripoli by Sarah Steben
Copywriting by Jaime Kastner
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The podcast currently has 12 episodes available.