With company audition season upon us, this week's episode focuses on offering tools to research companies in order to develop a practical game plan to get that job of your dreams.
Pas de Chát's host Barry Kerollis is an award-winning choreographer, instructor, and dancer with over 13 years experience in the dance world. His career includes directing Alaska Dance Theatre, dancing for Pacific Northwest Ballet, and traveling the country as a nationally-touring freelance artist. He also runs the popular blog, Life of a Freelance Dancer.
In light of the changing political landscape of the United States, this week's episode is devoted to inspiring artists to use their voice to make statements through their work. Listen in for a discussion on how art work has been representative of challenges and successes in society throughout history and how it is more important than ever that artists create work inspired by current events and relevant issues.
Pas de Chát's host Barry Kerollis is an award-winning choreographer, instructor, and dancer with over 13 years experience in the dance world. His career includes directing Alaska Dance Theatre, dancing for Pacific Northwest Ballet, and traveling the country as a nationally-touring freelance artist. He also runs the popular blog, Life of a Freelance Dancer.
Multiple experts from around the dance world provide in-depth information about Vaganova, Balanchine, and Cuban training techniques in this week's episode. Be sure to check out Part 1 of "Ballet Techniques Uncovered" for information on Cecchetti, Royal Academy of Dance, French, and Bournonville training. (This 2-part episode has been created in collaboration with the “Pirouettes from the Past” podcast on the Premier Dance Network. Head over there for an episode devoted to the history behind some of these techniques).
Pas de Chát's host Barry Kerollis is an award-winning choreographer, instructor, and dancer with over 13 years experience in the dance world. His career includes directing Alaska Dance Theatre, dancing for Pacific Northwest Ballet, and traveling the country as a nationally-touring freelance artist. He also runs the popular blog, Life of a Freelance Dancer.
In this week's episode, multiple experts from around the dance world provide in-depth information about training in Cecchetti, Royal Academy of Dance (RAD), French (POB), and Bournonville techniques. Be sure to listen in next week for Part 2, where Vaganova, Balanchine, and Cuban training will be discussed. (This 2-part episode has been created in collaboration with the "Pirouettes from the Past" podcast on the Premier Dance Network. Head over there for an episode devoted to the history behind these techniques).
Pas de Chát's host Barry Kerollis is an award-winning choreographer, instructor, and dancer with over 13 years experience in the dance world. His career includes directing Alaska Dance Theatre, dancing for Pacific Northwest Ballet, and traveling the country as a nationally-touring freelance artist. He also runs the popular blog, Life of a Freelance Dancer.
With New Years resolutions fresh in our minds and summer intensive, company, and university audition season upon us, many dancers are focused on maximizing their improvement in class to ensure they perform their best. Listen in to this week's episode for tips on how to get the most out of corrections you receive from your instructors and coaches.
Pas de Chát's host Barry Kerollis is an award-winning choreographer, instructor, and dancer with over 13 years experience in the dance world. His career includes directing Alaska Dance Theatre, dancing for Pacific Northwest Ballet, and traveling the country as a nationally-touring freelance artist. He also runs the popular blog, Life of a Freelance Dancer.
From celebrity deaths to election results and terrorist attacks, many people have mixed feelings about this past year as a whole. In this week's episode, Barry offers his final remarks of 2016 as he looks forward to the new year. Happy New Year!
Pas de Chát's host Barry Kerollis is an award-winning choreographer, instructor, and dancer with over 13 years experience in the dance world. His career includes directing Alaska Dance Theatre, dancing for Pacific Northwest Ballet, and traveling the country as a nationally-touring freelance artist. He also runs the popular blog, Life of a Freelance Dancer.
Since parents are investing money and time into their child's dance training, should they have the right to influence how their kids are being taught in the studio? Listen in to this week's episode as Barry shares his thoughts on parents demanding adjustments in training and methodology from dance instructors.
Pas de Chát's host Barry Kerollis is an award-winning choreographer, instructor, and dancer with over 13 years experience in the dance world. His career includes directing Alaska Dance Theatre, dancing for Pacific Northwest Ballet, and traveling the country as a nationally-touring freelance artist. He also runs the popular blog, Life of a Freelance Dancer.
Dancer's often feel a variety of external and internal pressures to work until they drop. Listen in to this week's episode, as Barry Kerollis discusses the importance of taking a day off in your work week to rest both your body and mind.
Pas de Chát's host Barry Kerollis is an award-winning choreographer, instructor, and dancer with over 13 years experience in the dance world. His career includes directing Alaska Dance Theatre, dancing for Pacific Northwest Ballet, and traveling the country as a nationally-touring freelance artist. He also runs the popular blog, Life of a Freelance Dancer.
Whether you are traveling as a guest artist and need to give yourself class, warming yourself up for your umpteenth company Nutcracker show, or need to stay in shape for summer program auditions while your school is on winter break, this episode is for you. Listen in as your host shares a set of barre exercises to keep you at the top of your game. Barry Kerollis is on faculty at Steps on Broadway, Broadway Dance Center, and teaches master classes around the country.
Pas de Chát's host Barry Kerollis is an award-winning choreographer, instructor, and dancer with over 13 years experience in the dance world. His career includes directing Alaska Dance Theatre, dancing for Pacific Northwest Ballet, and traveling the country as a nationally-touring freelance artist. He also runs the popular blog, Life of a Freelance Dancer.
Dancer's can be some of the most difficult friends and family for us to find the perfect holiday gift. In this week's episode, Barry taps into the Premier Dance Network community and shares each and every podcast host on the network's top holiday gift picks to help make shopping for any dancer easy. ***Giveaway Alert*** & Happy Holidays!
Pas de Chát's host Barry Kerollis is an award-winning choreographer, instructor, and dancer with over 13 years experience in the dance world. His career includes directing Alaska Dance Theatre, dancing for Pacific Northwest Ballet, and traveling the country as a nationally-touring freelance artist. He also runs the popular blog, Life of a Freelance Dancer.
In honor of the Thanksgiving holiday, Barry offers tips and tricks to help put your life into perspective. Listen in for a variety of tools to reveal everything that you are thankful for. Happy Holidays!
Pas de Chát's host Barry Kerollis is an award-winning choreographer, instructor, and dancer with over 13 years experience in the dance world. His career includes directing Alaska Dance Theatre, dancing for Pacific Northwest Ballet, and traveling the country as a nationally-touring freelance artist. He also runs the popular blog, Life of a Freelance Dancer.
Dance unions, like the American Guild of Musical Artists (AGMA), provide safety and protections for dancers. While helpful in resolving issues with management and negotiating contracts, they can also impose restrictions that limit artistic liberty and financial success for a company. Listen in this week as your host discusses the upsides and downfalls of dancing for a unionized company.
Pas de Chát's host Barry Kerollis is an award-winning choreographer, instructor, and dancer with over 13 years experience in the dance world. His career includes directing Alaska Dance Theatre, dancing for Pacific Northwest Ballet, and traveling the country as a nationally-touring freelance artist. He also runs the popular blog, Life of a Freelance Dancer.
There are three main distractions that students face throughout their training. Listen in to this week's episode on how to cope with outside activities, yearning for an active social life, and coping with heavy school work.
Pas de Chát's host Barry Kerollis is an award-winning choreographer, instructor, and dancer with over 13 years experience in the dance world. His career includes directing Alaska Dance Theatre, dancing for Pacific Northwest Ballet, and traveling the country as a nationally-touring freelance artist. He also runs the popular blog, Life of a Freelance Dancer.
Many dancers are taught to think if they feel they are dancing well, they may get complacent and stop working hard. Listen in to this week's episode as Barry shares his experience with a teacher who taught negative tactics to gain improvement and how he has worked to develop more positive ways to be critical of his own dancing.
Pas de Chát's host Barry Kerollis is an award-winning choreographer, instructor, and dancer with over 13 years experience in the dance world. His career includes directing Alaska Dance Theatre, dancing for Pacific Northwest Ballet, and traveling the country as a nationally-touring freelance artist. He also runs the popular blog, Life of a Freelance Dancer.
Are you 40 years old and thinking about taking your first ballet class? Or maybe you danced through high school and want to get back in shape by taking some contemporary classes? Listen in to this week's Flashcast for tips on getting the most out of Beginner and Intermediate level open classes.
Pas de Chát's host Barry Kerollis is an award-winning choreographer, instructor, and dancer with over 13 years experience in the dance world. His career includes directing Alaska Dance Theatre, dancing for Pacific Northwest Ballet, and traveling the country as a nationally-touring freelance artist. He also runs the popular blog, Life of a Freelance Dancer.
While most dancers endeavor to reach unattainable perfection in their technique, many don't recognize value in their imperfections. Listen in to this week's episode for a conversation discussing personal flaws and how vulnerability can create the most intriguing artists.
Pas de Chát's host Barry Kerollis is an award-winning choreographer, instructor, and dancer with over 13 years experience in the dance world. His career includes directing Alaska Dance Theatre, dancing for Pacific Northwest Ballet, and traveling the country as a nationally-touring freelance artist. He also runs the popular blog, Life of a Freelance Dancer.
Is it ever appropriate to burn a bridge? This week's episode explores different situations where your host has burnt bridges. Barry shares his thoughts on these experiences and analyzes whether they were avoidable or appropriate.
Pas de Chát's host Barry Kerollis is an award-winning choreographer, instructor, and dancer with over 13 years experience in the dance world. His career includes directing Alaska Dance Theatre, dancing for Pacific Northwest Ballet, and traveling the country as a nationally-touring freelance artist. He also runs the popular blog, Life of a Freelance Dancer.
Fresh on the heels of his South American honeymoon, this week your host shares his experience traveling for 3 weeks through Peru, Chile, Argentina, and Uruguay, and how important it is to seek experiences that challenge one's own perspective. From there, he discusses a fan's displeased reaction to one of his social media posts while traveling in Santiago and how it is the job of an artist to use their artistic exploration to open minds to outside perspectives.
Pas de Chát's host Barry Kerollis is an award-winning choreographer, instructor, and dancer with over 13 years experience in the dance world. His career includes directing Alaska Dance Theatre, dancing for Pacific Northwest Ballet, and traveling the country as a nationally-touring freelance artist. He also runs the popular blog, Life of a Freelance Dancer.
In this week's quick concept episode, your host takes a few questions from Pas de Chát listeners and responds. Questions include how a parent can best support their adult artist child, what the responsibility of a stager is, and more.
Pas de Chát's host Barry Kerollis is an award-winning choreographer, instructor, and dancer with over 13 years experience in the dance world. His career includes directing Alaska Dance Theatre, dancing for Pacific Northwest Ballet, and traveling the country as a nationally-touring freelance artist. He also runs the popular blog, Life of a Freelance Dancer.
Most ballet fans know many of the Principal dancers on the rosters of their favorite dance companies. Listen in to this week's quick concept episode for Barry Kerollis' list of dancers to watch in top tier companies who are not Principal dancers.
Pas de Chát's host Barry Kerollis is an award-winning choreographer, instructor, and dancer with over 13 years experience in the dance world. His career includes directing Alaska Dance Theatre, dancing for Pacific Northwest Ballet, and traveling the country as a nationally-touring freelance artist. He also runs the popular blog, Life of a Freelance Dancer. Have you ever wondered where you should purchase seats in a theatre to best view a dance performance? In this week's quick concept flashcast, your host offers his advice on where and where not to buy tickets in a theatre based on your own personal viewing preferences.
Pas de Chát's host Barry Kerollis is an award-winning choreographer, instructor, and dancer with over 13 years experience in the dance world. His career includes directing Alaska Dance Theatre, dancing for Pacific Northwest Ballet, and traveling the country as a nationally-touring freelance artist. He also runs the popular blog, Life of a Freelance Dancer. Have you ever wondered how to find an appropriate dance school for your kid? Listen in to this week's episode for a comprehensive description of different types of dance schools ranging from pre-professional training to recreational programs.
Pas de Chát's host Barry Kerollis is an award-winning choreographer, instructor, and dancer with over 13 years experience in the dance world. His career includes directing Alaska Dance Theatre, dancing for Pacific Northwest Ballet, and traveling the country as a nationally-touring freelance artist. He also runs the popular blog, Life of a Freelance Dancer.
When a worker in the Marketing field seeks work, they look for jobs in Marketing, not McDonalds. In the Arts field, why isn't this the case? Professional dancers and artists are often shamed into feeling like they should take whatever work they can to make ends meet, even if outside of their field. Listen in to this week's chat for details.
Pas de Chát's host Barry Kerollis is an award-winning choreographer, instructor, and dancer with over 13 years experience in the dance world. His career includes directing Alaska Dance Theatre, dancing for Pacific Northwest Ballet, and traveling the country as a nationally-touring freelance artist. He also runs the popular blog, Life of a Freelance Dancer.
Pressure to find a dancer's own ideal body comes from the history of our art form, our own self-driven goals, and judgment from our peers. Listen in to this week's episode for a discussion on weight and body dysmorphia.
Pas de Chát's host Barry Kerollis is an award-winning choreographer, instructor, and dancer with over 13 years experience in the dance world. His career includes directing Alaska Dance Theatre, dancing for Pacific Northwest Ballet, and traveling the country as a nationally-touring freelance artist. He also runs the popular blog, Life of a Freelance Dancer.
With the 2016 Summer Olympics in full swing, everybody has their eyes on the competition and minds on the gold. In this week's episode, Barry Kerollis considers whether ballet should be competed as a sport in the Olympics
Pas de Chát's host Barry Kerollis is an award-winning choreographer, instructor, and dancer with over 13 years experience in the dance world. His career includes directing Alaska Dance Theatre, dancing for Pacific Northwest Ballet, and traveling the country as a nationally-touring freelance artist. He also runs the popular blog, Life of a Freelance Dancer.