The StageLync Podcast

Episode 178: Insights and Stories from the World of Costumes and Wardrobe with Sandra Fox (Video)

Sandra Fox is Head of Costumes for Houston Ballet.
She started her career at the Lyric Opera of Chicago as a Wardrobe Assistant while finishing her degree in theater from Northern Illinois University. She worked off-season at the Goodman Theater in Chicago as a First Hand. After several seasons, Sandra moved to Hubbard Street Dance Chicago as Wardrobe Supervisor, establishing a costume shop and touring with the company.
In 2002, Sandra “ran away with the circus” and joined Cirque du Soleil on tour as Head of Wardrobe with Alegria. She then moved to Las Vegas where she had the opportunity to open the show KA as Assistant Head of Wardrobe. After opening the show, she moved to LOVE as Head of Wardrobe where she stayed from creation until the summer of 2018.
Sandra is happy to be in such a creative city and enjoys taking in arts performances as well as visiting museums in the area with her husband and son.
 
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Episode 177: Exploring Dance and Storytelling with Briana Bowie (Audio)

Briana Bowie began her theatrical career as a professional dancer and quickly sharpened her skills as an acrobat and aerialist performing for companies such as Cirque du Soleil, Diavolo Dance Theatre and Fuerza Bruta. Utilizing the skills she has learned over her seventeen-year career, including choreography, direction and production, she has galvanized these techniques and styles to create works for both the stage and camera. Enthusiastically motivated by the art of storytelling, her favorite projects are the ones where she has the opportunity to not only entertain viewers, but also deeply move them.
 
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Episode 177: Exploring Dance and Storytelling with Briana Bowie (Video)

Briana Bowie began her theatrical career as a professional dancer and quickly sharpened her skills as an acrobat and aerialist performing for companies such as Cirque du Soleil, Diavolo Dance Theatre and Fuerza Bruta. Utilizing the skills she has learned over her seventeen-year career, including choreography, direction and production, she has galvanized these techniques and styles to create works for both the stage and camera. Enthusiastically motivated by the art of storytelling, her favorite projects are the ones where she has the opportunity to not only entertain viewers, but also deeply move them.
 
 
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Episode 176: Mastering Creativity with Richard Dagenais (Audio)

With over 35 years of experience and success in the performing arts industry working as a creator and creative manager, Richard has been involved in creating international live shows, both in permanent and touring venues, corporate and touristic events, FEC’s and theme parks. He is well versed in leading different styles of creative processes and successfully guide teams to overcome complex challenges.
Born and raised in Montreal, Richard’s decade-long dance career with the Royal Winnipeg Ballet gave him the chance to travel the world and work with some of the best choreographers in the industry, honing his artistic skills. After 18 years working with Cirque du Soleil as head of auditions, senior artistic director and senior creative director, and a year in Dubai working on Franco Dragone’s La Perle, he joined the live entertainment leader that is Cirque Eloize as its Vice-President Creation.
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Episode 176: Mastering Creativity with Richard Dagenais (Video)

With over 35 years of experience and success in the performing arts industry working as a creator and creative manager, Richard has been involved in creating international live shows, both in permanent and touring venues, corporate and touristic events, FEC’s and theme parks. He is well versed in leading different styles of creative processes and successfully guide teams to overcome complex challenges.
Born and raised in Montreal, Richard’s decade-long dance career with the Royal Winnipeg Ballet gave him the chance to travel the world and work with some of the best choreographers in the industry, honing his artistic skills. After 18 years working with Cirque du Soleil as head of auditions, senior artistic director and senior creative director, and a year in Dubai working on Franco Dragone’s La Perle, he joined the live entertainment leader that is Cirque Eloize as its Vice-President Creation.
 
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Episode 174: Performer Wellness with Jacinta Wu (Audio)

Jacinta followed her passion for biology, the human body and working with people to complete a Bachelor of Physiotherapy (Hons) at The University of Melbourne. Her work in major hospitals in Australia prepared her to be an in-house physio and first responder for The House of Dancing Water show in Macau. Jacinta holds numerous certificates and accreditations in sports injury management, pre-hospital trauma life support, acupuncture, fitness, pilates and Yoga.
Jacinta was also the Head of Physiotherapy on the Terhal Show, by the Ministry of Culture in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia created by Dragone and managed by an events company Hwadi.
Jacinta knows what it is like to be a physiotherapist for elite athletes and performing artists and how treating and managing them differs from a standard physio practice.
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Episode 175: Actor, Playwright, Musician & Teacher - Jack Canfora (Audio)

John Lawrence "Jack" Canfora is an Award-Winning American playwright, actor, musician and teacher. After receiving his dramatic training at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, he began his career as an actor in regional theater, working mostly in Shakespearean roles such as Mercutio and Macbeth. He’s been hailed by the Associated Press as “White-hot Entertainment” for his off-Broadway plays including Poetic License, Place Setting, and Jericho, a New York Times “Critics Pick.” He was nominated along with Edward Albee, Elaine May, and Teresa Rebeck for The Newark Star Ledger’s Best Play, 2007. Jack is the recipient of two Edgerton Playwriting Awards, for Jericho (2010) and The Source (2018). He won the 2016 Webby Award for Best Writing in a Web Series. Jack is also the Artistic Director of New Normal Rep.
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Episode 175: Actor, Playwright, Musician & Teacher: Jack Canfora (video)

John Lawrence "Jack" Canfora is an Award-Winning American playwright, actor, musician and teacher. After receiving his dramatic training at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, he began his career as an actor in regional theater, working mostly in Shakespearean roles such as Mercutio and Macbeth. He’s been hailed by the Associated Press as “White-hot Entertainment” for his off-Broadway plays including Poetic License, Place Setting, and Jericho, a New York Times “Critics Pick.” He was nominated along with Edward Albee, Elaine May, and Teresa Rebeck for The Newark Star Ledger’s Best Play, 2007. Jack is the recipient of two Edgerton Playwriting Awards, for Jericho (2010) and The Source (2018). He won the 2016 Webby Award for Best Writing in a Web Series. Jack is also the Artistic Director of New Normal Rep.
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Episode 174: Performer Wellness with Jacinta Wu

Jacinta followed her passion for biology, the human body and working with people to complete a Bachelor of Physiotherapy (Hons) at The University of Melbourne. Her work in major hospitals in Australia prepared her to be an in-house physio and first responder for The House of Dancing Water show in Macau. Jacinta holds numerous certificates and accreditations in sports injury management, pre-hospital trauma life support, acupuncture, fitness, pilates and Yoga.
Jacinta was also the Head of Physiotherapy on the Terhal Show, by the Ministry of Culture in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia created by Dragone and managed by an events company Hwadi.
Jacinta knows what it is like to be a physiotherapist for elite athletes and performing artists and how treating and managing them differs from a standard physio practice.
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Episode 173 – Artistic Finance collaboration with Victor Manuel Aguilera

In this episode, we are recording in collaboration with my fellow podcaster and now friend Ethan from Artistic Finance. Today we are talking with Victor Manuel Aguilera, talking all things finance.
Víctor Manuel Aguilera has a Bachelors degree in Accounting from the Universidad Autónoma de México, a second Bachelors degree in Business Administration from Universidad Iberoamericana, and a Masters Degree on International Trade from Université de Paris I) Pantheon -Sorbonne. He is a Certified Public Accountant and Business and Financial Restructuring consultant in Mexico. Victor is also the co-author of the book Matemáticas Financieras (Mathematics of Finance) published by McGraw Hill, and currently used as the main textbook for the matter in universities such as the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) and the Universidad de Guadalajara (UdG). Recently he appeared on Rankia´s podcast, the leading finance community in Latin America and Spain.
Artistic Finance with Ethan Steimel
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