How you can gain worth and respect in your line of work with Knicole

10/05/20 • 52 min

In this episode Joanna Vargas interviews Knicole Haggins. Listen in as Joanna and K talk about previous dance experiences. K gives you different stories that happened behind the scenes from tours with different “A List” pop artists.

In this episode you will learn about:

How your journey can change from one day to another.
What kind of sacrifices you might make to pursue your dance goals.
The importance of committing 100% to all your dance gigs regardless of how big or small.
How being social with your dance mates on tour can make a great impact on stage.
What kind of changes we can make towards a more educated dance community regarding current events.

Quote: “My ship is coming in even if I have to tug it myself.”

K gives you an inside look on what happens off the big stage as a dancer for concerts. She also talks about her band and how different it is performing with her band vs as a dancer.

Question Highlights:

What inspired you to start dancing?
What was one memorable dance experience on tour?
Tell us about your band. What projects are you working on?
What can you do to keep your dance job consistently?
With BLM going on, what are your perspectives on how dancers can educate themselves?

About “K”Nicole:

"K"nicole is a Cali native Angeleno. She is a veteran and ambassador of both community and entertainment industry, a versatile performer, who has worked on many platforms such as world tours, award shows, TV & film, theater, commercials, music videos, and much more. She has worked with musical legends including Chris Brown, Ariana Grande, Lady Gaga, Prince, and Usher just to name a few and recent shows such as The VMAs, Penny Dreadful, The Masked Singer, The Latin Grammys, GLEE, and several others! Knicole studied dance at many studios and attended Fullerton college. Her home team in the community is Team Millennia, and she has also been an artistic director for Boogiezone Breed.

Having spent years on many screens and stages, her purpose in life is to help people feel and connect to the positive nostalgia and theatrics of the entertainment industry. Knicole has traveled the world performing, choreographing, and teaching, and also works as a talent consultant, helping to advise careers and develop artists. Her specialties as a teacher include expanding movement range, helping students to find authentic feeling and performance, understanding musicality, and conditioning the body to execute with strength. She is also a singer songwriter as well, performing throughout California with her band, she is also known as Alice King. Relentlessly pursuing big dreams, Knicole aka Alice has known that her mission is to spread more love and happiness through the art of music & dance; thru movement & sound. May you live yours!

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In this episode you will learn about:

How your journey can change from one day to another.
What kind of sacrifices you might make to pursue your dance goals.
The importance of committing 100% to all your dance gigs regardless of how big or small.
How being social with your dance mates on tour can make a great impact on stage.
What kind of changes we can make towards a more educated dance community regarding current events.

Quote: “My ship is coming in even if I have to tug it myself.”

K gives you an inside look on what happens off the big stage as a dancer for concerts. She also talks about her band and how different it is performing with her band vs as a dancer.

Question Highlights:

What inspired you to start dancing?
What was one memorable dance experience on tour?
Tell us about your band. What projects are you working on?
What can you do to keep your dance job consistently?
With BLM going on, what are your perspectives on how dancers can educate themselves?

About “K”Nicole:

Follow “K”Nicole:

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Learn more: Maxt Out Dance Competition
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Maxt Out on Facebook
TikTok @maxtoutdance
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How you can humanize dance as an education with Thalia

In this episode Joanna Vargas interviews Thalia Ramos, director of Cubcakes, a junior dance company. In this episode, Joanna and Thalia really get into spiritual and emotional mental tools. Learn how much power you have to create a sweet future!

In this episode you will learn about:

What you can do with emotional and mental tools.
How your emotions and feelings might not be truly yours.
How you can immerse and inbody if you feel defeated.
What you can do to humanize dance as an education.
How we are capable of healing ourselves spiritually and mentally.

Quote: “The way you do anything is the way you do everything.”

Thalia shines a light on how much power you have and to embrace your feelings, good or bad. She expresses how it is important to ask questions to yourself to get answers and everything will come to place.

Question Highlights:

How did you get to where you are now?
What is your favorite part about being a director?
What kind of wisdom do you give your dancers about life in general regarding the gifts of this pandemic?
What new passions or hobbies have you created during the pandemic?
What do you see in the future for dance?

About Thalia:

Thalia has been honored for her work as a professional dancer, choreographer, and creative director. Based in LA, CA Thalia is focused on creating her own lane in the dance community. Her work to bring conscious learning into the dance educational system is best represented in her youth crew CUBCAKES. Their credits are best known for their TV appearances especially on NBC World of Dance season 2. Since paving her own professional career her work can be characterized as a blend of powerful versatility and artistic range. She has made space and taken on work that allows her to support

others, teach mindfulness, spark conversation, create collaboratively, and pursue endless explorations in movement. She is endlessly grateful to continually witness how this work transforms dancers, audiences, community, and herself.

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How much work and passion goes into putting on your dance competitions with Anna Sarao

In this episode Joanna Vargas interviews Anna Sarao about what it takes to put on a dance competition for thousands of dancers. These ladies spit it all out, the good and the bad.

In this episode you will learn about:

How you can feel uncertain about one dance path and yet end up finding a dance path that suits you.
What kind of sacrifices you can make to pursue your dance goals.
The importance of committing 100% to a dance business.
What older dancers want to teach the dance community now.
What kind of changes the dance community might have after the pandemic.

Show Notes:

Quote: “You are the walking answer to your life.”

Anna talks about how she went from being one of the OG dancers on Culture Shock San Diego, CA to becoming the Artistic Director and going into building Body Rock dance competition.

Question Highlights:

What inspired you to start dancing?
You created Body Rock. Tell is how did you come upon that and what’s your favorite part about being a dance competition director?
Tell us about your most memorable Body Rock competition year.
We know that it’s been hard for creatives during this pandemic. What have you been doing to stay motivated and have you discovered anything new?
You have your masters in family therapy and you're a mental health coach. Where did you go to school and what inspired you to focus on that?

About Anna:

Anna started her career in dance in 1996 as a dancer for Culture Shock San Diego. The only formal training was staging and choreography at Mesa Community College with Angie Bunch. She promoted her to Artistic Director for CSSD in 2000. That same year, her teammate and best friend passed away from cancer. This gave Anna the drive to pursue dance seriously. She had an agent briefly but failed to become a professional industry dancer. Eventually she became known for her thematic dance medleys with CSSD. Later, she produced and became the CEO of the event Bustagroove aka Body Rock Dance Competition. Anna also produced Body Rock Junior, several talent shows, a dance play, and a dating game! She no longer performs due to age/physical injuries but remains active behind the scenes. Before COVID, she judged events regularly and remained a mentor for over 25 years. She recently completed her Masters in Family Therapy. Anna also loves talking with people and hosted her own Youtube Channel and Podcast called Boba Talk. Since COVID, she has been offering talks on presenting issues in our dance community. Anna has also been hosting learning and healing circles as a Creative / Mental Health Coach.

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