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🗓️ 7 January 2019
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Dejah Poole, 19-year-old dancer from the Alvin Ailey school, has been dancing since she was just 2 years old. I initially discovered Dejah from her stunning Instagram account: @dejahonpointe & from there learned about her passion for speaking out and claiming her space as a black woman in the world of dance. We talk about bias in ballet (when nude isn’t really nude), accepting your body, eating disorders, the time she met Misty Copeland, and how her mom pushed her to accept herself above all else.
We discuss how you get the body of a dancer, how to stretch and gain flexibility and the process and sacrifices behind dancing (we get into dancer’s feet & missing toenails)! I was also curious to learn how certain beauty elements translate for black dancers: how she wears her hair (Dejah is natural), stage makeup, etc. Dejah professes her love for Fenty & educates me on what the kids are into these days. Before we end, we’re joined by Dejah’s BFF and fellow dancer Lindsey Treadwell, to discuss dating, competition & living in NYC.
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0:00.0 | Hello, it's Brooke Devard, and you're listening to the Naked Beauty Podcast. |
0:07.0 | Okay, hi everyone, how are we feeling? |
0:09.5 | It's 2019. |
0:10.5 | Are we feeling good? |
0:11.5 | I'm excited. This is the first episode of the new year. |
0:17.0 | In this first episode I'm speaking to Deja who is a professional dancer. She's with the Aili school and I am obsessed with dancers. Their bodies, the way they move, their posture, their flexibility, the grace that they carry. I just, I always do dancer workouts because I want to have a dancer's body. |
0:35.5 | I love how supple their muscles are, right? It's like not about building bulky muscles |
0:40.9 | but being long and toned and my current favorite |
0:45.2 | workout physique 57 it's like a ballet bar class so some of its mat work on the floor |
0:50.5 | core exercises but then half of the class is at a traditional ballet bar I'm |
0:55.7 | obsessed with it they do have classes online if you're not in a city that has physique 57 |
1:01.0 | but it's just like these little tiny movements that target your muscles that you pretty |
1:06.6 | much didn't even know were there so muscles in your glutes, muscles in your calves, so much |
1:11.6 | core work, |
1:12.6 | and you do so many reps until that muscle group |
1:15.5 | is fully exhausted and then you move on to the next set. |
1:18.0 | And I've just been loving it lately. |
1:20.4 | I've gone pretty much, I don't want to say every day five times a week definitely for the past month and even when I was traveling I was in to loom for holiday. I still did my full physique 57 workout and I've seen really amazing results. |
1:36.0 | I am not being paid for this obviously. I would tell you guys if I was, but I lost an inch and a half off of my waist from just five weeks of doing this |
1:45.6 | workout which is really incredible and beyond the physical results I |
1:49.7 | actually just feel so much stronger I can feel how my joints are more supported like my |
1:56.0 | hips and my knees and when I go upstairs and it's funny because I've been taking |
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