53. reinventing your dance career: cruise ships to Broadway to professor, why burnout is really boredom & how to choose a dance college with Lindsey Hanson

<p>Lindsey Hanson has performed on Broadway, on the Radio City stage, on Sesame Street, and on cruise ships doing trapeze. And every time she got to the top of one corner of the dance world, she started over in a new one, on purpose.</p><p><br>She danced with a contemporary jazz company through the Joffrey Ballet School, then cruise ships, then musical theater, then TV and film, and then played the White Queen in Third Rail Projects&#39; Then She Fell. While she was still on tour, she earned her MFA from Montclair State. Today she&#39;s a newly tenured dance professor at Hope College, her alma mater, and she&#39;s wrapping up a year of four site-specific works made in worship spaces, funded by a $250,000 grant from Creative Arts Collective: Holland, a bird&#39;s-eye dance film, 22 dancers in New York, and a fourth in Grand Rapids.</p><p><br>We get into the night she learned a duet, lifts and all, 30 minutes before curtain on a ship, what it&#39;s like to find your mark at Radio City when the show is a magic act, the thesis premiere COVID cancelled that went on to 13 film festivals, and the three words that got her through grad school: action cures fear. She also pulls back the curtain on how grants actually work and why burnout might really be boredom.</p><p><br>Then we go deep on choosing a dance college. BFA vs BA vs conservatory, what to ask on a campus visit, why your professors are your first network, and why &quot;the industry&quot; is so much bigger than you think.<br>If you&#39;re auditioning for college this fall, or you&#39;re scared to start over at something new, this one is for you.</p><p><br>Stay in the loop with me 🤍<br>Instagram &amp; TikTok: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/kickingitrealpod/?hl=en" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">@kickingitrealpod </a><br><a href="https://www.instagram.com/potentiallygabby/?hl=en" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">@potentiallygabby</a></p><p><br>Find Lindsey here 👇🏼<br>Instagram: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/lindseyhansoncollective/?hl=en" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">@lindseyhandsoncollective </a><br>Website: <a href="https://www.lindseyhansoncollective.com/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">lindseyhansoncollective.com</a><br></p>