DanceSpeak

DanceSpeak From a living room in Los Angeles, DanceSpeak brings you candid interviews with the movers and shake

05/22/2026

The lows don’t have to be ignored 🫣

Juicy honest as fudge-cicles interview with is here and ready to be listened to 🤩

Ep. 225 on Apple Podcasts and Spotify

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She took the kind of criticism that makes some dancers quit and used it to become even more unapologetically herself. An...
05/14/2026

She took the kind of criticism that makes some dancers quit and used it to become even more unapologetically herself. And it worked.

is a choreographer, educator, and author of Putting My Heels Down. A Tisch-trained artist whose choreography received critical acclaim early in her career, Kara went on to become one of NYC’s most renowned Pilates instructors while navigating major pivots in both artistry and life.

This episode is for dancers, teachers, and choreographers navigating ambition, change, longevity, and identity as life keeps shifting around you.

Topics we explore include:

💃🏽 How to evolve as an artist without losing yourself

🕺🏻 Building a sustainable career beyond one version of success

💃🏿 The emotional reality of identity shifts in dance

🕺🏾 Balancing artistry, ambition, caregiving, and real life

💃🏻 What helps creatives move through uncertainty with more clarity

🕺🏽 Redefining purpose when life doesn’t go according to plan

This conversation is layered, honest, and full of perspective for anybody trying to build a meaningful artistic life that can actually grow with them.

Listen now on Spotify + Apple Podcasts 🎧

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05/03/2026

This explains a lot.

🎧 Get all the dance history-tea and inner workings of NYC’s club/street dance culture in ep. 224 of DanceSpeak w

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04/21/2026

🔥There are so many stories behind the dances we love. Learn them, and you might prance a bit differently

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🎙 DanceSpeak Episode 224 with is out!Archie Burnett is a pillar of New York’s dance and club culture, whose lived exper...
04/13/2026

🎙 DanceSpeak Episode 224 with is out!

Archie Burnett is a pillar of New York’s dance and club culture, whose lived experience spans generations of movement, music, and community.

Topics we explore in this episode include:

🔥 What club culture actually looked like in NYC and how laws + tragedies changed everything

🔥 Who the dance police were and what they did!

🔥 Growing up in Crown Heights, navigating racism, and finding identity through movement

🔥 Working 4 jobs while staying committed to the dance

🔥 How culture travels, shifts, and sometimes gets misunderstood

This episode is history, philosophy, and lived experience —> straight from someone who was there.

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04/09/2026

Had no idea 🤯

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03/23/2026

📚YOU CAN DO IT!!👟👠

Ep. 223 w is the lived experience of immigrating, persevering, studying, putting in those dance hours + PASSION and creativity a very fulfilling life 🙌

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🎙 DanceSpeak Episode 223 with is out!May is a touring and commercial dancer who completed her doctorate in psychology w...
03/17/2026

🎙 DanceSpeak Episode 223 with is out!

May is a touring and commercial dancer who completed her doctorate in psychology while actively working in the dance industry.

In this episode we get into:

🔥 How May structured her life to complete her PhD while continuing to work professionally as a dancer

🔥 The perfectionist mindset many dancers develop
and why it stopped working once she reached UCLA

🔥 What it was like immigrating to the United States, learning English, and navigating school and dance simultaneously

🔥 The complicated reality of being an industry dancer in the age of TikTok and Instagram

🔥 May’s perspective as both a dancer and psychologist on mental health, diagnoses, and movement as a tool for regulation

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03/15/2026

🎤 Ep. 222 w

This share right here gos to deep. Would love to hear your thoughts and experiences below ⬇️

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NOTE: this audio was extracted from the camera recording (not our mics). With the noise removal, some of Brian’s actual diction/annunciation is missed. Listen to the audio version for the FULL proper audio! 🔥🎧

03/10/2026

A teacher’s job is NOT just to teach you what the like 🤯

Anyone else low key hit an ‘a ha’ moment with this?

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