Category: Dance Around the Globe
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Why Dance?
The Transformative Power of Dance This article explores the transformative power of dance, highlighting its social impact in promoting inclusivity and unity, its educational benefits in enhancing skills and personal development, its economic contributions through career opportunities and tourism, its physical health benefits, and its role in nurturing mental well-being and…
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EP0032 CECILIA ILIESIU | GLOBAL
Global Ballet Teachers: Our Mission Our mission at Global Ballet Teachers is to promote diversity and equity in the arts by creating free community-lead courses, classes, and resources to educate and empower ballet teachers around the world. The Reach Our community has members in over 40 countries from Nigeria, Ghana,…
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EP0030 MINDLEAPS | GLOBAL
Mission MindLeaps uses dance to develop the cognitive skills and social-emotional learning of at-risk youth to ensure that they can succeed in school, enter the workplace and leap forward in life. About MindLeaps Founded in 2005 (as RDDC: Rebecca Davis Dance Company) by social entrepreneur Rebecca Davis, the company was…
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EP0029 TIM PODESTA | AUSTRALIA
Deeply rooted in the creative community, we hold our values dearly. Inclusiveness, diversity, purpose and authenticity are beliefs that drive us to go beyond. Projection Dance uses dance to make a difference, inspire change and be a fearless voice and active advocate for innovation and dialogue surrounding the development of…
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EP0026 CASEY HERD | BALLET RISING
Welcome to this special interview with Jozef Varga (Principal Het Nationale Ballet) and Casey Herd (Founder of Ballet Rising). We have heard many stories from dancers around the world, but what about the story of our own Casey? “When dancers stop dancing, they have to re-invent themselves.” Learn in this…
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EP0020 BRIANA + GREG | WEB MONETIZATION
In this interview Ballet Rising director Casey Herd discuss with fellow grantees, Briana Stuart and Greg Hannam, what is web monetization, how it works, and why it’s important for people in the dance industry to understand it as we shift into the digital world. We finish off with an introductory…
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EP0019 PAUL SEAQUIST | GLOBAL
Casey Herd talks with renowned ballet impresario/entrepreneur Paul Seaquist about the state of the dance world. Paul Seaquist is one of the most important ballet impresarios in Europe. He is the Executive Director of Seaquist Dance Marketing, one of the first dancer and choreographer management companies in the world.
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BALLET RENAISSANCE
An article by Lindsay Alissa King about the rising popularity around the world of classical ballet.
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BEHIND BALLET RISING
A former principal dancer with the Pacific Northwest Ballet in Seattle and the Dutch National Ballet in Amsterdam, Casey fell in love with travel during his years on the road as a ballet dancer. Following his retirement from the stage in 2016, he embarked on a new project that combines…
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UNITED WORLD OF BALLET
SUPPORTING BALLET ABROAD BOOSTS BALLET AT HOME By Lindsay Alissa King In the epilogue to her 2010 book Apollo’s Angels, Jennifer Homans wrote, “We are watching ballet go, documenting its past and its passing before it fades altogether.” Homans’ opinion, one that was perhaps not uncommon at the time, was…