Michelle Zeitlin on Dancing Through Revolutions, Reinventing Hollywood Careers, and the Power of Saying Yes
Michelle Zeitlin
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From medium.com:
“Passion is a word that means a lot of things. It has a connotation of love — we think of it when we think of great art, the Renaissance, your heart, romance. But it’s also that feverishness you feel that you can’t explain. It’s a volatility in your soul that makes you want to get up in the morning and do what you do… That passionate essence — you feel it. It’s that ‘it’ thing you recognize in someone else. It excites you. It’s the fire.
We had the distinct pleasure of talking with our friend Michelle Zeitlin. Michelle’s story starts in Santiago, where a political sociologist father walked his two-and-a-half-year-old into a music and movement class. She cried the first time. The second time, she fell in love. “I really do think the dancer was born in that moment,” she says. Dance became the language she trusted, the base for a career that would stretch from ballet studios to Broadway workshops, film sets, boardrooms, and classrooms around the world. ” …
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Michelle Zeitlin from medium.com:
“In a nutshell, I represent actors, artists, authors, and activists. My company is More Zap Productions & Management. We recently became an LLC. We also represent literary properties, so we handle both talent and literary clients.
I get to work with book writers, screenwriters, playwrights, choreographer-directors, on-camera talent, Broadway performers, and people in the recording studio. For me, it’s a playground. Actually, I have a group Zoom at 4:00 today with clients in Nashville, Britain, Australia, New York, L.A., and Chicago. My clients are all over the map.
I’m kind of an elitist, which started with my ballet background. I believe I have the cream of the crop, and I also believe we rise together. The cream does rise in the coffee. I’m very grateful that I get to help create what I call a yellow brick road to success with my clients — that creative path forward.”
