Siobhan Richardson: How To Succeed When You Have More Than One Passion

<p>How do you juggle multiple skillsets? How do you keep your skills sharp?</p> <p>Joining the conversation on Cue To Cue this week is Performer/Fight Director/Intimacy Professional Siobhan Richardson who advises us to always reassess and rebalance on what makes us happy, not what other people think you should be. </p> <p>Are you suffocating because you're selecting what you should show the world? <span style="font-size: 14px;">Are you being the fullest version of yourself?</span></p> <p>Release yourself from those shackles! You can be more than one thing at a time and still find fulfillment. You can enjoy and thrive in the diversity of your passions!</p> <p>In this episode:</p> <ul> <li>How breaking the shackles from the expectations of others allowed her to thrive in different forms of art and creativity</li> <li>How ballet triggered her journey in movements arts to discovering stage combat and scenes of intimacy</li> <li>The importance of points and pathways in embodying the required movements for scenes of violence</li> <li>The impact of communication in knowing if someone is in trauma response versus being uncomfortable with scenes of intimacy</li> </ul> <p style="text-align: justify;">A little about Siobhan:</p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span class= "il">Siobhan</span> Richardson is an award-winning actor/fighter/singer/dancer, Fight Director and Instructor, and Intimacy Director and is a pioneer voice in the Canadian Theatre Industry regarding Intimacy in Performance. </p> <p style="text-align: justify;">She is the preferred Fight Director and Instructor for a number of theatre companies, actors and directors, and a certified Fight Director with Fight Directors Canada. Stage combat teaching has, likewise, taken her across Canada, the USA and Europe. She has taught at international events such as the “Paddy Crean International Art of the Sword Workshop”, “The World Stage Combat Certification and Teacher’s Conference”, “Fight Directors Canada's National Workshops”, and the “Nordic Stage Fight Society'