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Figuring Out the Left Side is a podcast for dancers, educators, and choreographers, hosted by Olivia Lou—a retired professional dancer and experienced teacher. Through expert interviews and insightful discussions, this podcast provides a space for learning, growth, and community. Its mission is to inspire and support dance professionals at every stage, helping to shape not only skilled dancers, but thoughtful artists and humans.
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Backstage Pass: Professional Dance Team Coach
On today’s episode, Nadeen gives us an inside look at what it’s like to coach a professional dance team. As the new director of the Washington Spirit’s dance and entertainment team, Spirit Crew—she…
Backstage Pass: AUDITIONS
Today's episode is all about the 5 aspects of auditions: 1. Prep 2. Research 3.The Look 4. The Process 5. Results Olivia Lou takes you through each aspect with advice, knowledge, and tips to help…
Backstage Pass: Dance Competitions - Harmful or Helpful?
In today's episode Olivia Lou discusses everything Dance Compeitions. Are they harmful or helpful? Are they worth attending? Many studios have just begun the official competing season and she shares…
Backstage Pass: Your Host Olivia Lou
Welcome to a little bit of a different episode today... with the new year and new listeners I thought I would take the time to give you an episode on my dance background and how it lead me to this…
S2E7 Backstage Pass: Life of a NYC Professional Dancer
Welcome Courtney Lopes to the podcast! She is a professional dancer in NYC with the Mark Morris Dance Group. On today's episode, she talks about what being a dancer in NYC looks like and just when…
Backstage Pass: A Dancer's Ultimate Balancing Act
Today I sat down with the hilarious & brilliant, Chris Saunders. We talked about the dancer's ultimate balancing act... being a performer, educator, student, AND human being with a social life.…
Backstage Pass: Owning a Dance Company
Today I sat down with Leah Mariner & discussed her role as an owner of a dance company. She gives us an inside look on how she got start and grew such a successful company in only 9 years! She is…
Backstage Pass: Director of a Performing Arts High School Dance Program
Today I sat down with the brilliant Jamie Howes, the Director of the Colgan Performing Arts High School Dance Program. Jamie shares her knowledge on the benefits of attending an arts school, gives…
Backstage Pass: Hip-Hop Aesthetics
Today I sat down with Neo Lynch, a seasoned commercial dancer with performance credits alongside Beyonce, Ciara, Gucci Mane, Bow Wow, and The Ying Yang Twins to name a few. From hip hop aesthetics,…
Backstage Pass: NFL Cheerleader
Today I sat down with Jessie Casey, a 5x Command Force Cheerleader, 2x Team Captain, and the 2025 Commanders Pro Bowl Cheerleader! In this Episode, we dive into her inspiration for joining the team,…
New dance podcast coming this Fall!
Figuring Out the Left Side is a podcast for dancers, educators, and choreographers, hosted by Olivia Lou—a retired professional dancer and experienced teacher. Through expert interviews and…
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Figuring Out the Left Side has published 11 episodes since July 2025, covering topics in Arts, Performing Arts.
Figuring Out the Left Side is currently highly active with new episodes monthly. Average episode length is 53m.
