Breaking Out of the Box – ARTS. WORK. LIFE. by the Association of Performing Arts Professionals Ep.6.
Arts workers are essential, and more than ever, it’s important that the world understand what it’s like to work in the performing arts. Hear the bold, untold personal stories on workplace and work culture from arts workers themselves. The ARTS. WORK. LIFE. podcast series is produced by APAP and made possible with support from the Wallace Foundation.
Being prematurely judged or misunderstood can be frustrating, limiting, and even harmful. In the final episode of Season 2, artists and arts administrators share stories of pushing boundaries, subverting categories, and defying expectations.
Act One: “Up-Rising” with Emily Isaacson, a conductor and the founding director of Classical Uprising in Portland, Maine.
Act Two: “Such Creatures” with Luke Greeff, a dancer, choreographer, circus artist, and educator in Chicago, Illinois.
Act Three: “More Than Madness” with Sam Simon, a playwright, author, and actor in McLean, Virginia.
You can find a full transcript and more on APAP’s website: https://apap365.org/podcast/
You can find the resource Luke mentions in their story, Gender Expansive Practices in Dance Spaces: An Introduction here.
Are you a performing arts worker with a story to tell? Submit it here:Â https://bit.ly/AWLpodsubmit
.
The Storytellers in this episode:
Emily Isaacson (Portland, ME), a conductor and the founder of Classical Uprising, who when told that her innovative ideas don’t fit in classical music, paved her own way.
Luke Greeff (Chicago, IL), a dancer, choreographer, circus artist, and educator, who when confronted with a work environment that failed to support transgender and gender non-conforming artists, stepped away and started one that would.
Sam Simon (McLean, VA), a playwright, author, and actor, who, facing his own diagnosis of early-onset Alzheimer’s, is committed to sharing his story in a one-man show, for as long as he can.
.
ARTS. WORK. LIFE. is an award-winning podcast about what it’s really like to work in the performing arts, featuring bold, untold stories from artists and arts workers.
The podcast is produced by the Association of Performing Arts Professionals with the support of the Wallace Foundation. Listen on your favorite podcast app.
Do you have a story to share? Submit your news story, article or press release.
