My Dance Week: Kristin Damrow

Kristin Damrow is a San Francisco based choreographer. She began her professional career in Chicago while earning a B.A. in Dance from Columbia College. Since 2010, Kristin Damrow & Company has been presenting new, daring, and original work to the San Francisco Bay Area. They’ve presented at Constants and Variables, Resident Artist Workshop (R.A.W.), D.I.R.T. Festival and, most recently, the Summer Performance Festival at ODC Theater. Kristin has been commissioned for the Stern Grove Festival, held residency at the Carlmont Dance Program for two years, and is the director of BodyLanguage, a pre-professional teen company in Fairfax, CA. Kristin is on faculty at ODC Dance Commons, Dance Mission Theater and RoCo Dance. She guest teaches at LINES Ballet, City Dance and Sonoma State University.

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Finding the right schedule that works for myself as an artist seems to be just as hard as dance itself. From week to week I have different classes, rehearsals, and jobs while trying to balance a personal and social life on top of it all. My biggest challenge is trying not to overload myself physically and mentally. I enjoy the push and rigor to get as much done as possible, but then I start to cut corners. Certain elements of my life and work start to lose their attention and quality. I jump into my next week, teaching nineteen classes, holding three rehearsals, and running one audition. I smile knowing I get to call my passion my job, but after all that, I'm taking a couple days off!

-Kristin

To view Kristin's vlog (video blog) of her dance week, click here .