87: Teachers Teaching Teachers — Mandy Yip

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This week on 5.6.7.EIGHT, Aleksandra speaks with Mandy Yip, CEO and Founder of</span> <a href="https://www.acrobaticarts.com/#/welcome"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Acrobatic Arts, Inc.</span></a> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">Yip’s company</span> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">runs training and certification courses for dance teachers in the art of AcroDance — a program that promotes flexibility, strength, balancing, limbering, and tumbling. Acrobatic Arts produces the most comprehensive, researched program available for AcroDance, which explains why the syllabus is followed in over 6,500 dance studios in over 30 different countries.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">As a lifelong learner, Mandy has attended and achieved certification in countless courses, including contortion, hand balancing, inclusive learning, tap, jazz, gymnastics, and safe coaching, to name a few. And all of these courses have primed her to create her own dynamic training program. On the podcast, Mandy primarily discusses how learning is the key to success in any field — especially dance — and how individuals within the dance industry are particularly keen on being generous with their dance knowledge.</span></p> <p> </p> <p><strong>Moving Quotes:</strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“I think teachers would be surprised at how much others are willing to share and how generous the industry is with the information that we have. We tend to think of ourselves as a bunch of little islands, and we’re really not. All it takes is a phone call to change that for yourself."</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“What’s so beautiful about the dance industry and about our industry is that we are so giving… I learned so much from mentors who were willing to let me come and sit."</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Mentorship opportunities aren’t just in the phone book or on the Internet. You have to call people and ask, ‘Would you be willing?’"</span></p> <p><span style