"Everyone is a dancer" | Kate Wallich on making dance a universal pain-killer.

The Art and Happiness Project

I wanted to talk about dance in a way anyone can relate to. Even if you’ve never thought of yourself as a dancer, in some way you probably are. Who's never moved to the sound of music?

Kate Wallich, founder of Dance Church, is a dancer, a choreographer and director and a business woman who’s turned a Sunday dance class into a VC-backed, multi-million dollar tech company with a huge online community. She's at the intersection of dance, well-being, artist community, business and tech, and she's fascinating because people rarely make those world connect successfully.

We talked about dance as an act of freedom, self-expression, self-esteem and belonging. We talked about the process of making it an inclusive and judgement-free practice. We talked about the birth and success of Dance Church, how it is proof that anyone is indeed a dancer. We talked about the need to support dancers as essential pillars of our culture and our wellbeing, and how that requires the art world to think of itself, unapologetically, also as a business.

Dance Church Classes

Business reference from Kate: The Hard Thing about Hard Things, Ben Horrowitz

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