107: Keep Making Things — Julia Rhoads

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This week on 5.6.7.EIGHT, Aleksandra speaks with Julia Rhoads — founder, director, and producer at</span> <a href= "https://www.luckyplush.com/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Lucky Plush Productions</span></a> <span style="font-weight: 400;">and lecturer and dance advisor at the University of Chicago.</span> <span style="font-weight: 400;">Julia is a seasoned dancer and artist, having danced and choreographed at a wide variety of companies. Her work has been featured in</span> <em><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Dance Magazine</span></em> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">and other prominent publications. Now, Julia leads her dance company — Lucky Plush Productions — which offers a unique blend of different arts disciplines and has toured globally, including performances in New Zealand and Cuba. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Julia is a lover of all different types of art, and that love is portrayed through her company’s unique work. On the podcast, that love shines through, as she discusses her company’s unique style, her experiences touring the world, why her formal education has advantaged her in the dance community, and why continuously making art is critical to life success and human flourishing.</span></p> <p> </p> <p><strong>Moving Quotes:</strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">"When I approach my work, I think of it as a mix of the intellectual side and the artistic side... I think the best way to learn is both the intellectual pursuit and the embodied pursuit."</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">"Now, there is such an emphasis on the arts in non-arts fields. Thinking outside of the box — having a creative approach to big problems — is incredibly important."</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“There's something unique about Lucky Plush’s artistic vision in that we are very interdisciplinary... We're drawing from a lot of different languages to move the work forward."</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">"I'm so gr