Akeisha de Baat is contemporary dance artist turned online fitness enthusiast for dancers, based in Vancouver, Canada. She loves to create new works, self produce shows, and encourage other artists to go after their dreams. After 6 years of running Warehaus dance collective, her body had enough of suffering from overuse, fatigue, and compounding small injuries. Akeisha chose to seek the unconventional route of a personal trainer to help her recover and get back to being herself. Through this process, she started to connect with more dancers with similar stories and from that created the Resilient Dancer program, which provides dancers world-wide with monthly workouts to support healthy dancing.
In this delightful conversation, we talk about Akeisha's unusual path through dance, starting with roots in traditional Polynesian dancing as a link to her family, carrying the history of different dance styles in her body, her love of countertechnique and what it is exactly, plus we talk a lot about being a dancer as an artist versus an athlete. For you non-dancers, we also talk a lot about processes that are applicable to all. For example, what resilience means and not only what it is to be a resilient dancer, but a resilient artist, how an injury forced her to take a break and how taking a pause can effect the creative process, and her interest in energy and the law of attraction.
SHOW NOTES
-Akeisha’s website and instagram -The Resilient Dancer program,
plus a free download of 5 of her favorite dancer exercises-Polynesian dancing: Akeisha’s Omas showcase
-Learn more about Horton, Graham, Lamone, Cunningham
-Warehaus collective (her former dance collective)
-More on Countertechnique / One Body One Career Intensive
-Contact Improvisation
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