You Have a Cool Job: Ballerina

You Have a Cool Job is a podcast hosted by Taylor Sienkiewicz from Peterson’s. The show highlights professionals who have a unique, interesting, uncommon, or otherwise cool job.

Our goal is to motivate you and show how interesting, fulfilling, and anything-but-average your career can be, and we’ll do this by talking with people who took a path less traveled. We ask these fascinating individuals how they got to where they are in their career based on their education, experience, and influences; why they love their job; and lots more.

On this episode of You Have a Cool Job, Dana Benton, a principle dancer at Colorado Ballet, shared her journey to working in a ballet company and starring in lead roles. Immersing us in the dance world, Dana explained the structure, seasons, and work life of professional dancers.