[Perform-Talk] Need Some Advice

[Sandra Gayer]

Hello Shelly,
I'm a Soprano Singer, Braille Music Teacher, Radio Broadcast Presenter
and Actor. Rejection is, unfortunately, an integral part of a career
in the performing arts. Lots of able bodied people struggle with
rejection as well. Persevere and you'll succeed! My strategy with
auditions is to do them and move on as quickly as possible. I know
it's easier said than done. If you do a lot of them in a short space
of time, it gets easier. Getting jobs helps forget the negative
results of silence after an audition or a rejection letter. There will
be companies out there who will want to take you on. The more you put
yourself out there, not just auditions but performing and releasing
videos on the Internet, charities will want performers especially as
industry opens more. You don't know who is watching these things.

Hopefully some of this is helpful to you.

Very best wishes,
Sandra.

www.sandragayer.com

On 7/22/21, Leslie Hamric via Perform-Talk <perform-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> Hi Shelly. I suggest apply wherever you can. keep trying until you get
> someone who is receptive enough to at least give you a try. Whatever you do,
> don't give up. I can speak from personal experience because I tried to
> audition for two different orchestras before I found a third one that would
> take me. What I did When I auditions for the Elmhurst Sympwhen I audition
> for the Elmhurst Symphony was wa play my cello  first,   and then, i
> answered questions from the conductor. I don't remember all of them but the
> two main questions I remember our: how do you know when to come in? How will
> you keep up with the orchestra? With the other two orchestras, the first
> conductor was not willing to even try and with the second orchestra, I got
> as far as the principal cellist who claimed this was just not going to work.
> All you can do is the best you can in an interview or audition and whatever
> happens after that is out of your hands. That's true for anyone, blind or
> cited. It always feels like we are blind performers have double the amount
> of pressure because not only do we have to know our stuff, but we also have
> to convince the person auditioning us that our blindness isn't going to get
> in the way. i'm sure others on here can relate. Feel free to email me
> privately if you would like to chat more. Good luck and remember, do not
> give up.
> Leslie
>
>
> Leslie Hamric
> Cello and Braille Music Teacher
> Board member of National Federation of the Blind Performing Arts Division
> Graduate Council Member of Guiding Eyes for the Blind
>
>> On Jul 22, 2021, at 2:15 AM, Shelly Kane via Perform-Talk
>> <perform-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>>
>>         Hi Group:
>>
>>
>> I don't post much here but I joined because I wanted to be in contact with
>> other blind performers.  I have been a dancer for many years.  At the
>> present time, my trainer and I talked about me possibly becoming a
>> teacher.  It would be more of a pop dance class so I wouldn't be
>> performing.  I would be teaching a dance workout with choreography to each
>> song.  I love my class and would love even more to teach.  My question is
>> how would I go about this?  Many years ago, I did apply to be a teacher
>> assistant at a dance studio and it was a nightmare.  When I went for the
>> interview, they acted like I wasn't even scheduled to come in.  It was a
>> very humiliating experience and I definitely don't want to do that again.
>> We have 2 dance studios for the disabled and I thought of starting there
>> but how would you go about it?  My trainer told me to reach out to other
>> studios as well and she even thought community education through the
>> school would be a good thing.  I just don't want to get the door slammed
>> in my face again.  I was wondering what you thought?  If this isn't the
>> right place to post this, I apologize in advance.
>>
>> Shelly
>>
>>
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Sandra Gayer DipABRSM, LRSM.

Soprano Singer
www.sandragayer.com

Broadcast Presenter
www.rnibconnectradio.org.uk/music-box.html

Actor
www.visablepeople.com

Voiceover Artist
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