Ep. 8: The Cost of Ambition with Mira Treatman

ReVisioning the Arts

This is a conversation about ambition in "career artists" and the cost of ambition. You'll absolutely want to listen to if you struggle with feelings of inadequacy.

We go into deep talk about productivity and the toll it can have on our mental health and how we can define ourselves as artists with regards to our rate of productivity. We go into the dangers of relying on the feedback we get in terms of recognition.

Mira tells us about the damage of equating self-worth with productivity. She’s so honest and generous with her inner life and inner world- the shifts that has happened, what she used to want vs what she wants now.

She talks about her relationship with the “American exceptionalism and bootstrap mentality", and she's overall a huge badass. I think you'll love her.

Mira:

Mira Treatman is an artist and writer born, raised, and rooted in the city of Philadelphia. Prior to 2020, she spent ten years in arts management working primarily with non-profit dance companies. She is currently pursuing an MS in Community and Trauma Counseling at Thomas Jefferson University. As an artist, she has been fortunate to receive support from Earthdance E|MEREGE, BodyMeld, Arts Letters & Numbers, Gibney Dance Center LANDING, Stockton Rush Bartol Foundation, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, and The Knight Foundation/National Center for Choreography/Akron. Mira's career highlights have included working the box office rush during Nutcracker, producing the 2020 Rocky Awards, teaching at 954 Dance Movement Collective, mentoring some stellar college interns over the years, and making work with collaborators Irina Varina, Susanna Payne-Passmore, and The Foxy Doxies. https://www.miratreatman.com/

Julia Brandenberger: www.roguetheology.com

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Music:

"Theme for Julia," by Mira Treatman, licensed under CC BY 2.0