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The DancePreneuring Studio

The DancePreneuring Studio

De: Annett Bone: Creative Strategist
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The DancePreneuring Studio is the place where dance inspires life and business. Each session ties the art of dance with your life and business with stories, strategies and tactics from people who are not only dancers and/or choreographers, but also entrepreneurs. This podcast is for people that want to look at their lives and businesses from a different perspective, and specifically from the perspective of the dance world.© AnnettBone.com, DancePreneuring.com Arte Desarrollo Personal Economía Entretenimiento y Artes Escénicas Gestión y Liderazgo Liderazgo Éxito Personal
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  • From Broken Ballerina to Storyteller with Susan Priver

    From Broken Ballerina to Storyteller with Susan Priver
    Mar 18 2026
    The poetry that I felt in dance began to percolate in another way, so I could express it through language and still use my body. Session Summary A body built for ballet, broken by it, and rebuilt through language, acting, and yoga. In this conversation, Susan Priver traces her path from the School of American Ballet and classical companies like Cleveland Ballet to a devastating firing at 24 that shattered her identity and plunged her into profound depression. She shares how acting training at the Actors Studio, method-based sensory work, and eventually Harold Pinter’s The Lover gave her a new choreography for her inner life, letting her translate the “pure poetry” she once found only in dance into voice, language, and character. Along the way, yoga, art modeling, and teaching became lifelines, helping her live in a body that no longer looked like a ballerina’s while she slowly reclaimed her artistry as an actor and author of the memoir Dancer Interrupted: A True Exposé of a Ballerina’s Fall from Grace. Takeaways from this session: When ballet is your whole identity, being fired feels like erasure.Susan describes being let go from Cleveland Ballet in her mid‑20s during the Reagan-era funding cuts as a trauma that froze her in time, triggering a “very, very deep depression” and a sense of being utterly unloved and without identity beyond dance.​Art doesn’t die when one form ends—it changes shape.Initially more fluent in movement than words, Susan spent years in acting training learning to connect her “sensitive instrument” to the music of language, eventually discovering that the same inner poetry she once expressed in ballet could live inside a character’s body and text onstage.​Sex, Lies and Harold Pinter taps her dancer’s sensuality in a new way.In The Lover, Susan plays Sarah, a wife who keeps her marriage alive through ritualized erotic role‑play, using her dancer’s awareness of sensuality, timing, and physical presence to navigate Pinter’s razor‑edge of fantasy, danger, and desire—without literally dancing. Bongos, ritual, and Pinter’s precise language become the score she moves through.​​Yoga became a bridge between the “fallen” ballerina and the emerging actor.In her late 20s, after her father’s death, stalled auditions, weight gain, and hair loss from alopecia, Susan turned to yoga to manage anxiety, befriend her non‑dancer body, and quiet the “constant negative chatter” that told her she was no longer enough. That practice eventually led to teaching, where she discovered a new voice guiding others into their own bodies.​There are ways through a “fall from grace” for dancers.For dancers who feel their career is over, Susan advocates reaching out—through therapy, movement practices like yoga, mentoring, or education—to translate kinesthetic and emotional intelligence into other forms: teaching, choreography, community programs, other art forms, or entirely new professions. She highlights colleagues who became painters, community dance leaders, and arts educators as examples of what’s possible beyond the stage. Featured Links and Credits: Sex, Lies and Harold Pinter at The OdysseyDancer Interrupted: A True Exposé of a Ballerina’s Fall from Grace– Susan’s memoir of ballet, loss, and rebuilding a life in acting​School of American BalletSusan on Instagram:@susan_priverPhoto above by Jeff Lorch Other episodes of interest: Session #240: When Movement Becomes Medicine with Arianne MacBean Session #239:In the Pull of Gravity: Ballet Preljocaj, Fatigue, and Finding Presence Through Non-Attachment Session #098: How to Overcome Body Image Issues Connect with Annett Instagram: @annettbone Leave a Comment Let me know your reflections, what resonated most about Susan’s journey from ballet’s brutal perfectionism to Pinter’s unsettling intimacy, or any questions you’d love me to ask her in a future follow‑up.
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    36 m
  • Six Weeks Seventeen Voices: Dance at The Odyssey 2026

    Six Weeks Seventeen Voices: Dance at The Odyssey 2026
    Jan 5 2026
    Art is always speaking about issues because it's about humanity and empathy and visions. Session Summary

    Dance holds our everyday stories and wildest questions—and when curated intentionally, an entire city moves differently. Barbara Müller-Wittmann shares how her 2017 "risky experiment" grew into LA's largest independent contemporary dance festival: 17 choreographers, 6 companies, 6 weeks of boundary-pushing work across two stages.

    A Few Key Takeaways
    • Barbara's curation process: staying connected with artists, blending returning favorites with fresh voices for cohesive evenings.​
    • Stories driving selections, from family puppets to social justice via Dancing Through Prison Walls—art as humanity, empathy, visions.​
    • New expansions: dance films from Dare to Dance in Public, workshops, interactive experiences to feel dance "in all its forms."​
    • Qualities that make her say yes: work that touches, surprises, melts the heart—beyond technical skill.​
    • Simple artist visibility tips: email curators, invite to rehearsals, share short videos—she watches every one.​
    • Audience magic: loyal subscribers who attend everything, declaring "I didn't know dance could be this in LA."

    Featured Links and Credits

    • Dance at The Odyssey 2026


    Other Episodes of Interest Session #202: 10 Constant Things in Dance, Life and Business Session #184: Letters to Dance Session #106: Lessons from The Last One Connect with Annett

    Instagram: @annettbone Share what speaks to you about this episode.

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    20 m
  • Breaking, Battles and Dance Education with Ryan ‘Bboy Frescy’ Everett

    Breaking, Battles and Dance Education with Ryan ‘Bboy Frescy’ Everett
    Jan 1 2026
    Groove and feeling behind the execution are what make it look like breaking instead of just acrobatics. Session Summary From birthday breaking classes to international battles, Canadian breaker and educator Ryan Everett (Bboy Frescy) shares how work ethic, community, and curiosity have shaped his journey in hip hop. He talks about not being “the most talented in the class,” learning to love the grind of practice, and why showing up for the community matters just as much as winning or losing.​ Ryan also explores the evolving landscape of breaking, from battle etiquette and subjective judging to the power of groove, foundation, and studying all the elements of hip hop culture. A Few Key Takeaways Show up for the culture.Even if you don’t feel “ready” to compete, being present—cyphering, spectating, supporting—builds experience and community.​Let work ethic lead. Not being the most naturally talented can become an asset when it motivates you to train with consistency and intention.​Stay after you lose.The event is bigger than your bracket; the cyphers, conversations, and shared energy are part of what you give back.​Don’t shrink your style. Trying to match what you think judges want can water down the individuality that makes your dancing memorable.​Honor every element. Learning about music, DJing, graffiti, and MCing offers context that can transform how you move and how you listen.​Use footage wisely. Let battle clips and tutorials inform you, but resist the urge to compare or copy to the point you lose your own voice.​Groove is non‑negotiable. Bouncing, rocking, and feeling the music for full songs helps keep your breaking rooted in dance, not just acrobatics.​Tailor your own pattern. Your journey doesn’t have to look like anyone else’s; you can follow references while still designing a path that fits you.​ Featured Links and Credits Ryan on Instagram Pulse Studios Calgary YNOT Ballet Lubbock Other Episodes of Interest Session #227 Beyond Cyphers: Cros One's Legacy & Business BrillianceSession #226 From Breakin' to Breaking Free with Bboy WicketSession #221 How To Cultivate the Effective Habits of a Champion Connect with Annett Instagram: @annettbone Share what speaks to you about this episode—how you work your craft. Leave a Comment Share your reflections, questions, or favorite moments from this episode.
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    56 m
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