Transforming Pain into Powerful Expression with Joey Cooper

Featuring emotional anecdotes and thought-provoking insights, this episode with Joey Cooper offers a deep dive into the world of artistic expression. Joey shares how his personal experiences, including the end of a significant relationship, impacted his work as a dancer and artist. Through various projects and collaborations, he continues to explore the different versions of himself and how these versions play into his creative process. This episode will inspire listeners to embrace vulnerability as a means of self-exploration and connect with their emotions and the audience on a deeper level.

Wisdom and Inspiration on Dance at The World Choreography Awards

To create one’s own world takes courage -Georgia O’Keeffe It takes courage to create.  It takes courage to be vulnerable, to share your art with the world. Courageous is one word I would easily use to describe the artists in attendance at The World Choreography Awards that took place in December 2021 at The Globe…

How To Effectively Lead Yourself and Others to More Success

“The true mark of a leader is the willingness to stick with a bold course of action — an unconventional business strategy, a unique product-development roadmap, a controversial marketing campaign — even as the rest of the world wonders why you’re not marching in step with the status quo. In other words, real leaders are…

How an Experiment Became an Experience: The Rise of The Leela Dance Collective

What started as an experiment to carry on a legacy, has turned into a successful dance company, The Leela Dance Collective.  They have provided incredible experiences to audiences all over the world. Their latest work, Son of The Wind,  will be presented soon at one of my favorite venues, The Ford Theaters in Los Angeles on Saturday,…

#198: How to Make Great Impressions in Dance, Life and Business [Podcast]

Session Summary:  First impressions can be lasting impressions. LA Dance Project and Mythili Prakash made lasting great impressions with their performances, and provided valuable reference points in their work that apply to dance, life and business. If you’ve listened to prior episodes when I review dance events, I take note of my first point of…