Dancing from stage to screen with Yasmin Harrison
Welcome to episode 13 of season 2 on The Business of Show Business Podcast. For today's show I am joined by professional dancer Yasmin Harrison. Yasmin has danced her way across TV, Film and Theatre and during this episode we discuss how you need to approach your creative freelance career as a business, up-skilling and learning from jobs and how to pays to be a nice person who people want to work with.
Time Code:
1:01Yasmin intro
1:35 The difference from stage to film
2:20 The rehearsal process for Cats the movie
3:11 Auditioning for film
4:43 Advice for anyone wanting to swap the stage for film
5:44 "For film you need the best of both worlds , the pickup of the commercial dance world and the performance of the musical theatre world"
6:56 Going on set knowing what is expected of you
08:19 "Any book I read from when I was younger says "when I grow up, everything from primary school to high school, said I wanted to be a performer"
09: 31 Being available in the arts
" You can't linger on what could have been"
11: 35 "So many times I have felt pressure from agents or people on the job – stay and do another contract..."
11:57 "I never wanted to do a show for more than a year"
12:34 Not knowing whats coming next in the arts
15:10 Time management and online presence
17:10 Balance and rise of social media
19:11 Enjoy the moment you are in
22:15 Advice Yasmin wish she had known - "It’s not just about your talent, there are so many other things you bring to it"
23:58 "We are all talented and have something we can bring"
24: 45 "There are so many other things you need to know." Being talented isn't enough
25:46 "You want to be booked again. You don’t want to be a one hit wonder, you want people to want to work with you again."
31:25 Who or what inspires Yasmin?
32:25 Being inspired by film
34 "People think because you can two step that they you can dance"
35:00 Quotes or mottos important to Yasmin
38:19 Where you can find Yasmin online
Instagram - instagram.com/diva_y/
Twitter - https://twitter.com/Diva__y
