SeeArts Podcast 🌟 Building the co-creative Bridge between Arts & Business 🎭🚀

After collaborating at Startup Autobahn in Stuttgart and creating a mesmerising final of light and energy together with the team of DUNDU, Fabian and Dan stayed in touched and via Social Media, SeeArts was following the creative pivot of Dan during the Pandemic Times: In the conversation Dan shares his story of growing up around the globe and "coming with" these experiences that prepared him well for the current uncertainty. Currently, he resides in India from where he digitally ignites events in his unique manner, coaches and ensures that we solve problems with a Startup Mindset. This Mindset applies also for Artists that more than ever experience VUCA conditions currently. Dan gives practical advice how to thrive in these pandemic times and inspires with his credo: Start Now, Start Simple!
Biography of Dan:
DanRam is an igniter. A 5x TEDx speaker, 3x entrepreneur, prolific event MC, and startup coach, his clients range from individual founders to national governments. His eclectic background growing up in 10 countries on 4 continents, his multi-continent education including Yale University and Trinity College, as well as his work in diverse industries from the UN to Consulting to Private Equity to Startups ensures that his clients are at the cutting edge of innovation.

On the ground, he is the founder of several startups in multiple countries and has coached scores of founders and startups. At the national level, Daniel was part of the 7 person panel commissioned by Minister of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation to put together a National Entrepreneurship Policy.

DanRam travels the globe as an Event MC & Speaker at over 100 events a year. Hosting changemakers like President Barack Obama, billionaire founders like Sir Richard Branson, record breaking athletes like F1 champion Nico Rosberg, Grammy-winning artists and celebrities, he works on 4 continents from college campuses to parliaments to in-house corporate innovation days to the biggest tech conferences in the world. His passion is to inspire people with his motto 'Start Now Start Simple' in building a future we all want to live in.
If you are interested in Learning more about Dan and his coaching offerings - get in touch with him and his team and follow him on his Social Media channels:
www.iamdanram.com and @iamdanram on all social media platforms
http://www.iamdanram.com/onlinecourse

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Today we are diving into the world of music & sound creations & it ́s a pleasure to welcome an incredible artist with us

Robert Wolf aka Robeat– a multi-talented musician from Esslingen who is one of the best Beatboxers on Earth: TV and show productions bring him on for real and surreal sound creations, that as a human beatbox, he performs with mouth, lips, tongue and voice

I am looking forward to this inspiring conversation and hoping to learn a bit as well how to create sounds with my body and mouth and so let us welcome Robeat – The Human Beatbox.
Biography and more information: Robeat
Robeat is one of the world's most talented beatboxers and is the reigning European champion. For years, he’s been a large presence in the event and gala area, and has been impressing in TV and film. The 32 year old prodigy leaves audiences speechless time and time again. As a „human beatbox“ – meaning he’s only equipped with his microphone and voice – he demonstrates the artistry of mouth acrobatics. His unmistakable style, that consists of hard techno-beats, fast drum-and-bass rhythms and mellow Hip-Hop sounds, is combined with his foray into singing and comedy. As a one man show or with his 20 minute solo program during guest appearances together with renowned bands – from Hamburg to Munich to Paris – Robeat is on the move everywhere. On German TV he has appeared on several shows repeatedly, proving his TV-qualities and entertaining the whole nation with his beatbox show. In August 2014 he unveiled the first ever beatbox symphony with the Bavarian Philharmonic Orchestra and in December, he set the tone with the viral mega-hit EDEKA-Christmas campaign. Robeat inspires young & old and raises musicality and entertainment to a new level.
Booking: Deborah Wolf @jamvision [email protected]
Instagram Robeat: @darobeat

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Today, we are talking about creative pivots and the Event Design Collective has been shaping the way towards better events. The whole events industry got massively disrupted and we want to ask Ruud Jansen about the state of the union of events: The Switzerland based Entrepreneur Ruud Janssen has been an innovator and game changer in the Hospitality and Meetings & Events Industry since 1994. With his business partner Roel Frissen he co-created Event Canvas methodology and with an evergrowing community, this collective aims at creating common language for Meetings & Events.
Ruud shares with us with story of growing up in different countries around the globe and experience a variety of cultures with a fascination for learning languages.
For him the event canvas is what sheet music is to musician. A way to decode and collaboratively understand that the goal of an event is to create a certain change within the stakeholders and ultimately create value.
The power of a piece of paper lays in the context that people can relate to it and how memories and stories used to be shared, the printing press allowed the further spreading and learning of the past knowledge beyond verbal storytelling. The event canvas takes the gut feeling that we all have and makes it more accessible and visible.
In the process, that I have gone through as well to be come a Certified Event Designer, there are certain challenges as a team but this process showcases once more that if you are learning together, you are staying together as the curious way of learning something also bonds synapse and at the same time powerful human connection are built.
Nobody likes to change but in the present moment we need to get digital dexterity to stay on top of our game what Ruud accomplished with his team through continuously testing, prototyping and setting a certain standard. (e.g. a spare modem!!)
He stays motivated through learning and in his mastermind practise he appreciates the work of Paul Rulkens and his theme of strategic quitting.
An interesting way to discover the digital pivot is for Ruud that awareness that the from home facilitation allows him some 60-70 days due to no travelling. He recommends to use these times for new experiences and not doing more of what has already been done. HIs master decompression hack is the alphorn which also helped him to become a more reliable member of the local musical community.
He recommends to hack your own creativity in talking and listening to inspiring persons and explore unexplored spaces together with them. Meanwhile, he loves these adventures, there is also some highly systemic parts of his life e.g. the rhythmic clock of his dogs.
The main chance of events from an organisational perspective is as well that is gives an outside person a DNA of the company - a gradient of the abilities and on the long run, events can be also viewed as "living organism" with a certain human note to it - meaning that events that have happened for more than two decades might be in a mid-life crisis with the need to reinvent and other events going through a teenage phase or are still in a diaper-start-up mode. It is interesting to discover the rejuvenation potential or at least stay young at heart.
For the online facilitation, it requires some ability to improvise and think three steps ahead, but at the same time one hack is to point out upfront that "if we don't break anything, we aren't experiencing" hard enough as a kind of jail free card with connotation to celebrate failure.

More information about the Event Design Collective with great free resources www.eventdesigncollective.com

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Our first guest is the world-renowned juggler & performance extraordinaire Viktor Kee who has inspired Fabian when he learned juggling.
Openly Viktor shares his story of escaping Kindergarden and opening up the magical windows of imagination in the World of Circus: His idols and the inflection points
The audience can witness what drives him as an artist, father but as well social change maker and agency owner and the importance of creating your own formula, that means sourcing from within, what describes for Viktor the ultimate way of really creating and being an artist.
Viktor Kee has been performing on stage since he was six years old, the Ukrainian born juggler is a graduate of the professional Circus School in Kiev. He has won awards at most of the world’s major circus festivals including Cirque de Demain in Paris and the International Circus festival in Monte Carlo. A favorite with audiences around the world, Viktor has performed at the Moulin Rouge, Lido de Paris, the Friedrichstadtpalast in Berlin, the Mirage, and the MGM Grand with Barbra Streisand in Las Vegas, Teatro Zinzanni in Seattle, the Royal Albert Hall in London, and around the world with Cirque du Soleil’s “Dralion”, “Voyage de La Vie” Singapore and currently played a lead character in new Cirque du Soleil show “Amaluna”. In the development of Viktor’s career he has stood on the shoulders of his forefathers in the juggling world. He has pushed the level of artistic expression in juggling to new levels. For Viktor, the world of movement and object manipulation is not only external, but also a physical manifestation of the internal emotional world. It is an ephemeral event that begs to be experienced viscerally as much as visually. Quite possibly the world’s best juggler, Viktor Kee, has developed a unique, mesmerizing style of juggling. A style of performance that melds dance, acrobatics and juggling into a wondrous ballet of sensuality. Along his career on stage Viktor is a Founder and Creative Director of Art Vision Production working on developing and managing other artists. Recently a new step was taking, Viktor has organized a Non-Profit “Viktor Kee Foundation” focusing on giving back to the communities by creating charity missions around the globe where Art Helps the World!
Latest performance of Viktor "Light" in Circus Knie
Homepage www.viktorkee.com
YouTube channel:www.youtube.com/viktorkee
Facebook Page: www.facebook.com/viktokeeofficial
Instagram:@viktorkee

Please support the Viktor Kee Foundation with your donation
Viktor Kee Foundation, is a 501©(3) not-for-profit organization with a charity mission around the globe.

We are an ever-growing global community of committed, compassionate people who volunteer our energies to rid the world of poverty and anguish. We believe that performing arts not only can entertain, but also empower individuals and communities to rise above economic poverty, while improving the lives of everyone they touch.

Through myriad global projects, we are showing people a new path and creating an Open Circle of ambassadors around the world — visionaries who share our passion of bringing a social, educational, and artistic experience, as well as entrepreneurial spirit, to those who need it most. Our charitable work has helped empower individuals and foster hope in countless communities around the world.

Spearheading our efforts are volunteers of the Viktor Kee Foundation, none of whom are supported by funds generated by our projects.

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Radha Agrawal is a shining powerhouse. After experiencing frustration with the nightlife scene, she felt the urge to bring people together and create real connections and community. Wanting to maintain all the things she loved about going out (dancing, creativity, connection) but leave the unsavory spilled drinks and bouncers behind, she launched Daybreaker, a sober early morning dance party that now has over 500K members who participate worldwide.
Radha and Fabian get to know each other during a 2015 San Francisco Daybreaker and the Giant DUNDU was a special surprise for the dancing crowd in the Bay Area. The reconnection after her book launch in Los Angeles while Fabian was performing with the Giants of Light at the World ́s Best concluded in a ecstatic dance with Baby Soleil in Radah ́s belly and the pandemic invited them to cross the big pond virtually and have DUNDU join the Digital Dance parties.
Radha shares her entrepreneurial spirit with a three step approach how to find a start-up idea and showcases powerfully why the mindset of iteration is perfection helps to get things started. With her fam of Daybreaker she organises massive online dance-outs and strives to build Joy institutes around the globe. You can experience this Joy practise with the on-demand online training D.O.S.E. (14 days for free) that helps you to connect your neurotransmitter into a vibrant cocktail.
In the conversation we covered her journey out of investment banking into becoming a experience designer and community architect, the power of rituals and the need for Belonging.
We also recommend to read her Book Belong which is a masterpiece as even before the pandemic the world has been in a state of disconnection and Belong brings powerful tools into the game to "go in to go out" and illustrates in a very visual way how we have to rethink old structures (updating the pyramid of needs)
45 minutes with the super spreader of energy just dance away and we can't wait to play together again
As if that wasn’t incredible enough, Radha is the Co-Founder of THINX period underwear which she created with her twin sister Miki Agrawal, is launching a new business, LiveItUp, and now she’s launching her new book, Belong, about finding your people, creating meaningful community, and living a more connected life.

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