We caught up with the brilliant and insightful Rachel Truitt a few weeks ago and have shared our conversation below.
Rachel, looking forward to hearing all of your stories today. What’s one of the most important lessons you learned in school?
Excellence is achieved by a practice of executing all things in a daily based with a goal to excel at your best from the day before. How you do ANYTHING is how you do everything, meaning the effort you put into the small tasks will be the way that you offer your efforts to your career as well as your larger goals.
The way that you brush your teeth, The way that you answer an email the way that you do a tendu. It’s all the same mental action and practice.
As always, we appreciate you sharing your insights and we’ve got a few more questions for you, but before we get to all of that can you take a minute to introduce yourself and give our readers some of your back background and context?
We are so proud to say that Admix Project has been producing the work of up and coming choreographers/ dancers and artist now for 10 years. We began our journey when I approached Kim Thomas, owner of the legendary Gotta Dance Atlanta, expressing my idea of starting a professional division of the company in efforts to create more jobs for dancers here in Atlanta. Our goal and hope was to create more opportunities for artists who are born in raised here so that we don’t lose all of our amazing creatives to LA New York.
Have you ever had to pivot?
As we all know the live performance and artistic community in general took a huge hit in 2020 when the world shut down, Admix Project took that opportunity to pivot in conjunction with Pandako Media, we produced a film in the spirit of a show that mean world premiered in 2018, Letters From an Artist. This film is still available for view and purchase on Pandako Media website.
Do you have any insights you can share related to maintaining high team morale?
Always lead with love, create opportunities for the people who are working for you to highlight their passions, create avenues for growth and further development of their skill. A leader remembers that they must serve everyone on the team in order for the team to flourish.
Contact Info:
- Website: http://racheltruitt.wixsite.com/racheltruitt
- Instagram: https://instagram.com/admixproject?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=
Image Credits
https://instagram.com/cindyharter?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=