60: Changing Dance through Technology — Caitlin Trainor

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This week on 5.6.7.EIGHT, Aleksandra interviews Caitlin Trainor, Founder of</span> <a href= "http://www.dancio.com/"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Dancio</span></a> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">and Artistic Director at</span> <a href= "http://www.trainordance.org/"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Trainor Dance, Inc.</span></a> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">Trainor, a Rhode Island native, received a Masters of Fine Arts in dance before moving to New York City to work with various companies and choreographers. In 2011, Caitlin founded her own company — Trainor Dance — where she currently serves as Artistic Director. Caitlin also founded Dancio, which provides online dance classes with some of the best teachers around the world. Additionally, in 2016, she was voted into</span> <em><span style="font-weight: 400;">Dance Magazine</span></em><span style="font-weight: 400;">’s “Top 25 to Watch.”</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Trainor would be the first to admit that her journey into the dance world was a nontraditional one yet would argue that her “outsider” mentality has worked to her advantage. Nowhere is that seen clearer than in her own business, Dancio, which is using emerging technology to disrupt the traditional idea of dance education. On the podcast, Trainor discusses how Dancio came to be and shares some great (and difficult) truths about entrepreneurship and living life outside your comfort zone.</span></p> <p> </p> <p><strong>Moving Quotes:</strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Dance, at its essence, is a shared, communal art form, and live class is a sacred, irreplaceable experience. That said, we need to learn from many different sources and that’s often at odds with [many different barriers, such as time and cost] … So streaming dance class will become an indispensable tool for the global dancer."</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Being a little bit of an outsider to dance can be an asset when you want to create things bec