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This is DANCE + Teddy Forance
Coming to you LIVE-ish from CLI Conservatory, with the guy who built the place he wishes existed when he was 17 and googling "which college has a dance program for me."
Teddy Forance didn't set out to become a studio owner. He set out to dance, and he did, big: Madonna, Lady Gaga, Cirque du Soleil, the Oscars stage. But underneath all of it was a gut feeling that never went away. That there wasn't a space built for dancers like him. So with his brother Jonny, he built one. Literally, twenty seconds down the road from their mom's studio in Southampton, Massachusetts.
We explore:
My new position at CLI: Director of Professional Development
Why Teddy skipped college for a career that found him at 17, at NYCDA Nationals
The "Costco math” behind 100 guest choreographers and a fraction of the cost
The budget-and-schedule advice Teddy gives every dancer terrified to move to a big city
What it feels like to watch five conservatory years soak into the walls of a building you built from nothing
This one's for anyone chasing a career nobody handed them a map for. Teddy didn't find the space that fit him, so he built it.
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