
Erica Frankel
Freelance Dancer -- Senior Associate, Manager of Student Life
Freelance -- The Bronfman Center for Jewish Student Life at NYU
Freelance -- The Bronfman Center for Jewish Student Life at NYU
Freelance Dancer -- Senior Associate, Manager of Student Life
I am a freelance modern dancer and a Jewish educator working with college students.
I arrive at work at 10am and spend the day meeting with Jewish college students. Some of these meetings are 1:1 over coffee to hear students' stories, some are 15:1 with my student intern team, and some are 25:1 in a class I teach on "Judaism as Art." I'll sometimes leave early or in the middle of the day for 3-4 hours of rehearsal or for a performance and then come back to work or work from home on administrative responsibilities.
Here's the first step for high school students
A high schooler looking to pursue modern dance should try to audit dance classes at the college programs they are most interested in, and should decide what is more important to them: living in a city with a vibrant dance scene versus going to school at a "traditional, campus" college.
"You're not going to make a lot of money, and New York is an expensive city."