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The ballet podcast where we get in ‘Hard Corps’ with dancers around the world, having open and honest conversations about the struggles and rewards of full time ballet training.

THE HARD CORPS PODCAST THE HARD CORPS PODCAST

    • Health & Fitness
    • 4.5 • 10 Ratings

The ballet podcast where we get in ‘Hard Corps’ with dancers around the world, having open and honest conversations about the struggles and rewards of full time ballet training.

    2. Creating a world that you fit into as an artist with Marika Brussel

    2. Creating a world that you fit into as an artist with Marika Brussel

    How everyone and welcome back to this week’s episode, in conversation with Marika Brussel independent ballet choreographer based in London. I’m so grateful to be currently working with Marika in the production of Warp & Weft, particularly her piece ‘By a Thread’. This week we chat about her journey from America to the UK and building her world in London as a choreographer, finding inspiration and work outside the typical ballet company environment. Tickets to Warp & Weft: https://tickets.marylebonetheatre.com/tickets/series/WarpandWeft If you’re interested in checking out Laura Coffey’s book

    “Enchanted Islands”

    You can purchase here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Enchanted-Islands-Mediterranean-Odyssey-Mythology/dp/1837993130

    I hope you enjoy the episode!
    Love
    Romy xx

    • 26 min
    1. How turning down a contract can lead you to the right one in conversation with Athletistry

    1. How turning down a contract can lead you to the right one in conversation with Athletistry

    Hi everyone and welcome back to the podcast! Welcome to SERIES 7!

    for this weeks episode, I am joined by Shane Wuerthner, probably better known as Athletistry on Instagram.

    We talk about his journey through professional ballet training, audition season and his experience of turning down a contract at the Royal Danish Ballet, and how this led him to go on to dancer soloist roles at Vienna State Opera, San Francisco Ballet, and Queensland Ballet, where he retired to settle down in Australia.

    During lockdown Shane started personal training, which led him to where he is today, the creator of ‘Athletistry’ and online service for dancers to improve their range and quality of movement.

    You can find Shane here;

    IG: @athletistry

    TikTok: @balletstrong

    YT: Ballet Strong

    I hope you enjoy the episode

    Romy xx

    • 1 hr 8 min
    11. The journey to find out where you fit in this industry with Maeve Nolan

    11. The journey to find out where you fit in this industry with Maeve Nolan

    Hi everyone and welcome back to another episode and the final episode of the season before Christmas and a little holiday break.

    *TRIGGER WARNING - BODY IMAGE*

    This week I'm joined by Maeve Nolan (@maevenolan), a good friend of mine here in London. We talk about her training in Australia at Tanya Pearson, her move to Europe to study at The English National Ballet School and her transition into company life. We talk a lot about body image, body dysmorphia, finding where you fit in the industry among the standards we still see today.

    Thank you Maeve for such an open and honest conversation.

    Have a lovely holiday,

    love Romy

    • 1 hr 9 min
    10. the new generation of ballet teachers with Brook Ogle

    10. the new generation of ballet teachers with Brook Ogle

    Hi everyone and welcome back to the podcast,
    This week I’m joined by Brook Ogle. 
    In this episode we chat about her journey into ballet, the challenges that came with transitioning into professional ballet training.
    Brook is now a teacher in London at a range of pre vocational and vocational ballet schools, we chat about her experience into teaching and what she hopes to bring to her students.

    You can find Brook on IG @brookeogle

    Thank you to everyone that tuned in to this weeks episode, hope you all have a great week,
    Love 
    Romy

    • 1 hr 9 min
    9. The new Cinders production & fuelling as principal ballet dancer with Jessica Fyfe

    9. The new Cinders production & fuelling as principal ballet dancer with Jessica Fyfe

    Hi everyone and welcome back to this week’s episode in conversation with Jessica Fyfe, @jessicafyfeofficial, currently a guest principal dancer with Scottish Ballet.
    We sat down and talked about Jessica’s journey from the beginning, the challenges that came along from having a serious injury during her first year of Australian Ballet, to the choreographic journey of the new production of ‘Cinders’ by Christopher Hampson at Scottish Ballet.

    You can find tickets to watch Jessica’s UK debut at Scottish Ballet here:

    https://www.atgtickets.com/shows/scottish-ballet-cinders/theatre-royal-glasgow/?&&&&gad_source=1&gclid=CjwKCAiA9ourBhAVEiwA3L5RFrx-MkhWPrSk7Kxf9KqTyLfA0dMlaPY3GncTsGUTlwfrM4QqKaScaRoC1ysQAvD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds

    Find out about Cinders here:

    https://scottishballet.co.uk/whats-on/cinders/

    Fuelling recs on IG
    @ausdancersoverseas
    @r_mcgregor

    Find more about Coda (not spon)
    @wearecoda.agency

    https://l.instagram.com/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fcodaclassical.com%2Fdancers%3Ffbclid%3DPAAaaN5eGe1OkcoS2bJH3IMzm9K6g7pSiUomiXBmrXCyczYAJsqYROfft7Dl4_aem_AVHgpIO93No9Jl208mKwQOcfVD9MPyN2SighhWOvITRXmHUXG56KdZJtxBshEpVgxTU&e=AT2IJE-pYmrLYDdMX1YOs62SwIe6j_dI1DkiW7oIoo1LEaTK9zNXZZ4f9SSoMKiC3qrOK0Ixo6Bo6ZBmZBrcUJ8fINXCINT3NONtN-nu3XOmyiFWI1RldLmV-PRUwfsMhBg

    Thank you so much to everyone that tuned into this week’s episode,
    Have a great week
    Romy

    • 58 min
    8. From Ballet School to the West End with Serina Faull

    8. From Ballet School to the West End with Serina Faull

    Hi everyone and welcome back to another episode of the podcast! This week I’m joined with Serina Faull ( @serinaballerina on IG ) to chat about her journey to where she is now, performing in Phantom of the Opera (we are recording at the THEATRE)
    From Elmhurst to the West End, we chat about her journey in touring ballet company and biting the bullet to branch into other genres after Covid.

    Thank you so much to Serina for such an enjoying conversation & to everyone that tuned into this weeks episode!
    Have a great week
    Love Romy

    • 41 min

Customer Reviews

4.5 out of 5
10 Ratings

10 Ratings

Carrie101101101 ,

Love listening but room for improvement

I love many of the guests Romy has on and appreciate that she’s tackling some difficult subjects that should be discussed more openly. I do wish she’d improve the volume issues and audio quality (the black swan music intro is far too loud, for example). I also wish she did more research on the interviewees beforehand; particularly with more experienced professional dancers, she seems to enter the interview with very little background information on their career (and I say this with love, but Romy’s reaction to learning any interviewee is over 30 is kind of cringe — that’s not old!). Generally speaking, the interviews tend to lack necessary structure, but there is so much potential here, and I do still find the interviews interesting and valuable.

RoxieHart1 ,

Disappointing

The host stumbles with her questions, is not very articulate, doesn’t explore issues fully and talks about herself more than showing interest in her guest.
As a listener I am left with more questions and only a general sense of her guest’s experience. The frequent use of “Um” and “like” as well as half-formed sentences (from both guest and host) made it difficult to remain interested.

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