KP E18: Creating From A Place of Authenticity: Vinh Nguyen
Episode description
Today on the Kinjaz PodKast we have our brother, THE CHOSEN ONE, THE CREATOR, THE CLOSER, Vinh Nguyen.
He talks on his dance history growing up in San Diego, his creative approach, and gives us insight into the ongoing conversation of dance vs. school. Enjoy!
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A concept about their faith.
Keone Madrid, Mari Martin & Vinh Nguyen
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Movie:
The Dark Knight - Christopher Nolan
Book:
The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership - John C. Maxwell
6:06 - Resume
6:43 - Whats your choreography process? How do you do what you do?
7:00 - Whats your creative process? Broken down in 3 stages.
- Learning how to do your craft. Learning how to use your tool.
- How do you express or find it in your own voice? Be genuine.
- Whats it all for? Whats the purpose? Finding the relatability.
18:40 - Dance history time.
23:18 - Finally answering about becoming a dance professional traveling and teaching.
25:05 - Traveling and teaching being a possible career vs pleasing parents and finishing school.
28:15 - Along that thought too I also get questions from younger kids or even kids in college who are like, "Dance is only thing that brings me happiness, how can I do this thing or should I like finish school." They're asking not even me, I'm sure you guys you know, "What do I do?" and in that sense its like um…I think for me is…
28:38 - Count the Cost. You know like its not laid in your lap. If I say yeah do it, then you're gonna succeed…If you really wanna pursue and like make this your mission to be happy and give up things like that I'm honestly not telling you to quit school. School is so important but like its really counting the cost like what do you wanna pursue and how hard are you going to work at this because every dancer or aspiring person that you see in front of you that you look up to
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