“Performer’s and Creator’s Lab’s creator Holly Shaw is one of those rare cultural creatives that is not only accomplished at the creative Arts herself, she has also dedicated part of her career to generously helping other creatives identify obstacles to their success and then coaching them through a process of breaking through their own limitations. First in her hypnotherapy practice, then later in an excellent book, and now shared with us as a podcast. And this is no dry academic speaking to us, Holly has a performance background in strict, traditional, world dance forms like flamenco, and improvisational forms like modern dance, and narrative forms like stage and film acting. She’s been enmeshed in the performing arts for most of her life. So she’s ‘walked the walk’, ...and now we find she’s got a natural gift for the talking the talk, too.
This fun, interesting, and personal podcast (as well as her best-selling book) is proof of her big heartedness, and her desire to reach us and teach us, and help us in ways that are unique to the artist lifepath. She seeks out interesting guests from across a range of disciplines, and engages them on different levels; from personal interviews, to explorations of a specific theme, to coaching sessions. For example, A visual artist might gain some insight from an actors conversations about stage fright, which will be useful when they have to pitch a public art project proposal in front of a committee or give a lecture. A writer may find the dancer’s conversation about the relationship between stress and movement in the body important in getting through writers block. Or an actor might find something useful in the musicians conversation about channeling sexual energy during performance to help them loosen up their acting. Topics definitely cross over.
Sometimes irreverent, sometimes serious, Performers and Creators Lab Podcast is always interesting and useful to anyone in the creative field.”
Krusty guy via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
03/30/18