Hokay, so. Some bigger
changes have happened now since my last post.
Slowly but surely, things have started to turn around for me. I auditioned for and got on another dance
company. This one is in Astoria and is
more of a Salsa and Samba focused company, while also doing jazz, contemporary,
hip-hop, all that, so that should be a great learning experience. I finally heard back from all of the
internships I applied for. At first I
agreed to do three of them part time, but due to trying to survive at all
financially, I had to let one of them go.
So I will be doing two part time business marketing internships
throughout the summer. One is with a modern
dance company, so I will get to see how running a non-profit dance company in
the real world really works. The other
internship utilizes a classroom setting and teaches me, along with the other 10
interns, about inbound marketing and other skills that should make us more
marketable in the industry. In exchange
for taking this class for free, we use what we have learned by doing projects
and events for the company who set this entire internship up. This company supplies services and support
for women who have survived domestic abuse.
I believe that both of these internships will teach me a lot and give me
real world experience on my business side.
I have found some part time, temporary paid work. However, just that, temporary things, but I believe that the right opportunity will come for me, maybe from one of these experiences.
The internship I had to let go was involved with an advocacy group
attempting to protect and preserve American wild horses’ land and environment and
their right to be on the public land. I
am sad to not have been able to continue with this one, but if you are
interested in this issue, I would happy to talk to you about it or put you in
contact with people who can tell you even more or how to get involved! Even with the short time I was with this
group, I learned a lot about this issue and wish them all the best with their
goals for these horses. On the dance
side, I am going to try to get back into technique classes besides just
choreography classes all the time. I
have also been networking with different hip-hop people around the city, just
trying to dance with more people.
Hopefully more will come for hip-hop before my next post! Until next
time!
