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The Vaganova Method was created and developed by Agrippina Vaganova herself. She wrote the “Fundamentals of Classical Dance”. She was a massive influence on Classical Ballet during her time dancing, teaching and still has a timeless legacy to this day. The Vaganova method has its hand in almost every Classical Ballet School across the world. Even though the Vaganova methodology has greatly influenced the world of classical ballet but every professional dancer must be able to adapt to any dance style due to the standards held in the industry today. Hope you all enjoy the podcast. :D

This is will be the last installments of season 1 of the Ballet Reality Podcast. We will be moving to Season 2 after this four part series of episode 14. Part 1 of episode 14 discusses how writings about classical ballet have a huge impact on every generation of dancers who aspire to become professional dancers. Many great dancers have wrote books about classical and have assisted the evolution of the art form by doing so. We have phenomenal pedagogical, historical, and inspirational writing from all different walks of life in classical and they are all worth the read. Hope you enjoy this episode! :D

In this episode of the Ballet Reality Podcast we discuss teaching! Teaching may sound like some rudimentary way of. passing along traditional knowledge in the world but it way more valuable then what meets the eye. Our world is ran on teachers’ willingness to pass along information that may not be available by other avenues. As classical ballet students, fundamental steps are absorbed first then skills, and after that it is up to creativity of the dancer to apply their own artistic within the mist of their career as professionals. If this is what teaching was all about then we could have just learned classical ballet on YouTube, but it’s not. The teaching is made special when we absorb not only the information of what is objectively being told to us, but also when we take in the inflections of the voice and the examples made of how to go about certain things and how and why we shouldn’t go about certain things. These values in teaching are invaluable in the sense that no matter how much money we pay for the teaching, it is way more valuable then any price we could possibly put on the lessons.

Sports science and athletics. The dancer has the opportunity I today’s day and age to extend their career for a longer amount of years if the sports science is incorporated properly into their career. The person who can take care of their own correctly can live a long healthy life regardless of career path. This is one of the concepts that in The Ballet Reality. When I acquire my certifications in Pilates, Yoga, Calisthenics, I will apply the concepts mentioned in The Ballet Reality to own career and be the example of the research I mentioned in the Ballet Reality. In tomorrow’s episode of we will discuss teaching and it a has become one of the greatest trends on the internet. Thank for listening! :D

Writing a book can give rise to many different avenues in a dancers career. This opens opurtunitues up to teaching, public speaking, making a record of a choreographer’s methodology, and writing more books for different publisher. Writing a book increases brand awareness as well as a dancer’s audience. The book is based upon my video blog, written blog, podcast, and other social media posts. It will entail the extensive research over the years I went through to become a professional dancer after my Classical Ballet training at a later age in life than most do. And how I will incorporate a athletics and sports science into dancing to give way to healthy and physically strengthening way of training, conditioning and diet for the body. In tomorrow’s episode I will be discussing this with you. Thank you for listening to today’s episode of the Ballet Reality Podcast. Join me tomorrow as we discuss more of the reality of ballet! :)

The stage presence is just as, if not, more important than the other two parts of performance preparation that makes the dance presentation more of an unforgettable experience to the audience. Taking care of the body comes first. Developing the character role is a crucial part for acting success on stage. Lastly stage presence amplifies the quality of dancing on stage. Stage presence isn’t a quality that is taught or practiced, it is part of a performer naturally, and it is up to the dancer to draw it out of themselves for the audience to enjoy and for themselves to indulge in as well ;)! Thank you for listening to my three part series of episode 10 of ballet reality. I hope you join me for tomorrow’s episode where I discuss my book, “The Ballet Reality” and my other social media endeavors as well! Thank you again for listening! :D

This is the second part of the three part series of how a dancer prepares for the performance. This episode discusses the topic of character development. In Classical Ballet believable acting is a vital necessity to a successful production. When one dancer is using the full faculties of their own imaginative processes to portray the character role, it allows for the other dancers to go into their roles easier and is enjoying and entertaining for everyone in the audience. Proper technical execution of the classical ballet step are crucial, of course. But without proper acting they are not apart of the atmosphere of the production and are just on stay showcasing step without narrative. Dancer do not talk on stage, so we must communication using our facial expressions, and body language alone for expressing situation and circumstances of real people. In the part three we will discuss stage presence. Hope you enjoyed this episode and tune into tomorrow’s episode of the Ballet Reality podcast. Thank you for listening!

This is the first episode of a three part series of how a professional dancer prepares for a performance. It takes more than just learning the choreography and executing technically virtuoso steps. It dancer must take care of their body. The days leading up to the performance are crucial. If the dancer is healthy, they are fully prepared to take on all the rigors necessary to push their body fits the vision of not only the choreography, but also the vision and ideal they wish to fulfill as well. Thank you for tuning in today! Part 2 speaks upon development of the character portrayal of the role they have been assigned. Part 3 discusses stage presence of dancer to to be able to project their presence to the entire audience. I hope you enjoy this podcast and tune into the next two parts of this three part short series episode. Enjoy!

I give all of my mind, body, and soul to classical ballet because I believe in it. It has given me all of the opportunities for making my life better. I admit I have had a lot of anguish and anxiety holding on to past rejection and adversity from my experiences due to the fact that I have not had much time that a traditional aspiring ballet dancer has had. Yet alas, I have achieved becoming a professional dancer. I wish for any and everyone listening to my podcast to achieve their all of their greatest aspirations in life. Thank you for listening! :D

The strategy behind the content and craft that one pursues to make or have must have a smaller goals set in it to ensure victory and success.

The purpose of exposure and publicity is to give your the chance to see if they are interested in what you are doing. This helps the creator or crafter to then gauge the value it gives to people which may well inevitably lead to evaluating the monetization of such service.

In this episode I bring to the for front the importance of research and networking in your respective industry for the sake of relevancy.

Dancing is Life- In this episode we begin to incorporate some new audio equipment. I usually record on AirPod but now I have high quality microphones! Today I discuss my upbringing in dance and my give you my back story on my aunt teaching to dance and how she influenced me and my experience with Willow Street Studios when I moved to Carbondale, Illinois at the age of sixteen. There are alway up and downs in life. No person lives life the same as another. Everybody has there own experiences that shaped and molded them into the person they became. We can always learn from one another’s experiences!

Dancing is life- I generally need to keep in mind that I dance because I wouldn’t rather be doing anything else. I have been cracking down more on my strategies and projects towards promoting my dancing and decided on an idea that everyone will hopefully enjoy. More details and exciting things are to come!

Dancing is life- My efforts and progress made over the summer is all coming full circle. I see the effects of my progress even after the very first week. My dancing has became so much better since starting my business. I believe much more is to come from the work I am now involved in. My future in dance is where I’m most happiness when it come to how I aspire to live my life. Many more things to come.

Dancing is life- this phrase means so much to me that it is going to take over my entire podcast and all my time to help everyone listening and following know how serious I am about it. My passion in dance is not just my Internet personality but my actual reality. I hope I can bring all of you following a little closer to seeing what kind of path that I walk down in life. It is not a path many choose to follow because it takes everything out of them. I literally lost my entire social life and my regular lifestyle because of my drive, ambition and passion I have towards dance. The decision to choose a life dedicated to dance was a natural yes for me. Due to having a life that is naturally apt to Dancing, I knew by being the most natural person I could be I would naturally be around those who are naturally around that kind of person.

Dancing is life- Many people keep discourage others when they do things unusual but this way of being is recognized by those you are have been there. Risking everything to pursue their passion.