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"Rouge Sexy Show" with Yasilda Slonova- Circuspreneur Podcast Ep.104
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On this episode of the Circuspreneur Podcast, host Shenea Stiletto interviews Pole Artist and Rouge Show at the Strat original cast member, Yasilda Slonova. She was a finalist on So You Think You Can Dance Ukraine, received 4 YESES on Das Super Talent, was recognized with a special jury prize at the Monte Carlo 36th Festival with Circus Bingo, and has appeared on the acclaimed French television show " Patrick Sebastien."
Yasilda Slonova is an internationally awarded rhythmic gymnast, choreographer, and pole artist with over 15 years of experience in circus, dance, and stage performance. She was recognized for pioneering a pole act using light tissue as a unique visual and technical element.
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Introduction to the Podcast and Guests
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It helps us to continue to bring the industry high-level content. I'm your host, Sinead Stiletto, and my guest on today's Circuspreneur podcast is Yacilda Slanova. Welcome to the podcast, Yacilda.
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I'm so happy to have you on the podcast today, Ysilda, and i want to let listeners know a little bit about your history and about your background, and then we're going to ask you even more about your amazing career.
Yacilda's Background and Achievements
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Ysilda Slanova is an internationally awarded rhythmic gymnast, choreographer, and pole artist with over 15 years of experience in circus, dance, and stage performance.
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She was a rhythmic gymnast,
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Yasya
Thank
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from the age of five, and she's known for innovative pole act involving involving light tissue. She was specifically hired to perform this act in the Las Vegas residency show Rouge at the Strat. It's the sexy show.
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She is also a graduate of the Kiev Circus Academy for Choreography and External Studies, and has a bachelor's degree in sports coaching and masters of sport.
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Yusilda has also performed on major stages in television shows ah across Europe and the US, combining technical mastery with creative originality.
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Circuspreneur Podcast
Oh, Yusilda, it's so great have you.
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Yasya
Wow! The best presentation!
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Yasya
I can have! Thank you so
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Circuspreneur Podcast
I'm glad you like it. I do i did my best. I mean, it was more you than it was me. It was...
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Yasya
much! Thank you, Sinef, for having me!
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Circuspreneur Podcast
email.
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Yasya
Thank you so much!
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Circuspreneur Podcast
Oh, yes. Pleasure. It's like, you know, local Las Vegas artist.
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Yasya
yeah
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Circuspreneur Podcast
I was so excited. I've seen you a few times ah in Rouge. So I'm so happy to have you on the podcast.
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Yasya
ah
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Circuspreneur Podcast
youilda You're in the sexy, sexy, sexy show here Las
The Evolution and Milestones of the Rouge Show
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Vegas.
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Yasya
yeah
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And, you know, a part of the original cast, which is super special. And we're going to speak about your experience with that, too, because you know, your original cast member, and then you're still in the show now.
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You just had like the really big anniversary with Rouge where you were celebrating like so many shows, which is really special, especially for Las Vegas, because, you know, like the show is like lasting now, like what, three years, three years, I think it's it's now.
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Yasya
yeah
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Yasya
Three years we have, we did 1,500 shows for two or three years.
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Circuspreneur Podcast
Oh my God.
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Yasya
I never been working that much in my life.
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Circuspreneur Podcast
yeah
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Yasya
Yeah, it was intense in a short period, you know, it was like kind of like you ah you just do like so many shows, people come, you need to perform, they want to see, come on, you cannot say, you cannot say no.
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It's a new record. Yeah.
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yeah Yeah, they want to see this sexy, beautiful lady, you know? They want to see you on your pole.
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Yasya
Yeah. Yes.
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They want to see, you know, this beautiful choreography, all the things, all all the all the special things, yes. And I've enjoyed it many times.
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Yasya
yeah
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So, you know, I can attest to that.
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Yasya
um
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Circuspreneur Podcast
I just keep coming back. Yeah.
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Yasya
Yeah, come back, come back. We're always happy, you know. We always have to have happy people who going to clap to us because we do our best on stage, you know. So we're always going to be happy that more people coming because we want we continue to work and it looks like it's going good.
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Circuspreneur Podcast
Yes.
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Yasya
And yeah, so it's going to be better and better, you know.
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Circuspreneur Podcast
Yeah, it only I think it only gets better and better. And, you know, speaking to the show that you're in now, you know, Rouge at this strat, Ysilda, can you tell listeners a little bit about the shows that you've been on before? Because you've been in so so many popular shows, like all over the world that are super cool and super interesting. And so I'd love to hear, you know, about the other shows that you've been in. What are some of your other favorite shows that you that you've performed in in your favorite
Transition to Topless Performance
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type of show? Like,
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Is it your favorite type of show to do like sexy show because your act is is very sexy and very sensual, I would say, and like elegant? Is it like your favorite style?
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Yasya
you Yeah, you know you know, when we just arrived here in Las Vegas, of course, everybody was like, wow, Las Vegas, everybody wants to get to Las Vegas, you know, it's ah like the the dream of every artist, is kind of, you know, but when you arrive here, you like kind of become grounded, you get used to all the things here, because America is also different for a European people, everything is different, you know.
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Yasya
it And then ah also in the same time, I need to perform topless. And for me, it's like, no, I did it. You know, come on.
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Circuspreneur Podcast
Yeah.
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Yasya
Before even like, come on, topless. Oh, I'm not this kind of artist to perform topless, you know. And I was talking about myself like, come on, topless. But after, to be honest, you know, Crazy Horse, it's a great place, you know. Like Moulin Rouge, you know, it's a great place.
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Yasya
And there is people who performing topless and it's fantastic.
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yeah
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Yasya
it's existing for years you know so and it's like you cannot you cannot say that performing topless is something like a little bit lower uh level of you know of the person artist so enough in the beginning it was like kind of oh i'm kind of shy you know on this and after the most at It was only one time shy.
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Circuspreneur Podcast
Right.
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Yasya
So when everybody we had like a general rehearsal and everybody needed to be topless, you know, and everybody did it like kind of first time, you know, and this was only one time we were shy because actually when you go in on real stage, you already don't think you you do topless, you know, you just like you do it.
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Yeah. Right.
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Circuspreneur Podcast
right
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Yasya
And then, like, with your intuition, you adapt, yeah you you feel, you know how to do it. Of course, in the beginning, was, like, kind of um shy because when you take off your bra, for example, you're, like, taking off. Okay, I took it off.
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Yasya
Okay, I took it off. know i' do And after this time you're getting this taste of how you need to do it.
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Circuspreneur Podcast
That's it, I did it. Yeah.
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Yasya
yeah Because people come in and say, okay, I took it, okay. it's But after this time it it it it went a little bit better, better, better, better. And now we're like, okay, now I don't i didn't see even and i didn't see even the goal to
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and yeah
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You don't even notice. You're like, am I topless? Oh my God, I'm already topless. Oh my God, do I have my shirt on or on? Is the act started?
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Yasya
three
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Circuspreneur Podcast
Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.
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Yasya
Yeah, no
Performing in Las Vegas
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Yasya
now I think oh my god, okay, well if I if I perform somewhere like People go are are gonna wait I think topless anyway, you know because you get used to it and you think like wow, okay, you know Especially when it's good um Direct in your act and you do it like in right place.
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right
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Yasya
So it looks like all together like um You know like a whole little and like whole little show, you know, so like if this is for minutes, you know, they also they dance, the dancers are amazing, you know, and they dance, they all combination of that, what they have, they act, it shows like the little theatrical scene, you know, which is, yeah, and it's ah it's not just like you take, you know, the bra, it's all connected, you know, it's all like artistically made, yeah.
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Yeah.
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you
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Yeah, of course.
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Yeah.
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Yasya
I'm happy to work in a show like this.
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Circuspreneur Podcast
Yeah.
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Yasya
this there we have cool We have the whole story about that and, you know, and a different type of costumes everywhere, different epoch, you know, different times.
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Circuspreneur Podcast
Yeah.
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Yasya
So it's presented everything in the show and everything presents different time in the show, but everywhere taking off the bra.
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Circuspreneur Podcast
Every opportunity week we get, we go topless.
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Yasya
Yeah, because maybe in every every fork every pocket was ah the Beauty of the body is one of the person would enjoy all the time, you know Yeah
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That is the moral of the show.
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Yasya
yeah
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So like when, so like this was your first time being topless and we'll say this, the next time maybe you'll be crazy horse topless. Maybe you'll be Moulin Rouge topless. Like now you're ready, Yisilda.
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Circuspreneur Podcast
You're ready to go to all the other shows to be topless there as well. You can't go to any.
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Yasya
I will be like, I'm coming from Las Vegas.
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ready. Sometimes it's like, you know, it's hard. It's not easy.
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Yasya
me. Give me your contracts. I'm going to sign them all. Oh
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Circuspreneur Podcast
Give me the extra percent. I mean, it's just not for free.
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Yasya
my God, it's true.
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Circuspreneur Podcast
It always is extra, right? Wink, wink. Oh, that's
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Yasya
oh my god
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But like do you know the exposure and the experience and being here in Las Vegas, i mean like it's something that's also like normal coming to Las Vegas and doing like a sexy show in this kind of way. It's it's not unusual here you know for Las Vegas. it's It's really normal. But I think also too for circus, it's not something that we do a lot. People don't ask you to go topless a lot in our industry, but sometimes Cirque du Soleil, before they had sexy show here also,
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Zumanity, everybody wanted to be in Zumanity.
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Yasya
Yeah.
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Circuspreneur Podcast
They asked me to be Zumanity. I said, okay, maybe if I'm going to be that sexy, maybe for this show, okay, because it's like respectful, different, you know, this environment is, is you know, is
Innovative Acts and Artistic Influences
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is is good for it.
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Yasya
Yeah.
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So I feel like, okay, like I can do that. Like you said, it's like, there's respect there.
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Yasya
ah
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Circuspreneur Podcast
It's elegant. It's the way that it's done. So it's like a different, it's a different space in your career.
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Circuspreneur Podcast
And they also picked up your original act. And can you talk a little bit, Yacilda, about what is important about you having your original act for the show? Because it's a different type of act with your tissue and with your pole. And can you talk about how you created this act, this style? And not everybody, when they come to a show, they get to do their own act. Sometimes they want to change something.
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Yasya
yeah
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Circuspreneur Podcast
They have more like artistic direction in some different way. But for you, it really is about like your your act. It's it's special.
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Yasya
Yeah, okay. it It came like since I was a small like child because my parents, they're also artists, they're allusionists, you know, magicians and they do puppets.
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Circuspreneur Podcast
Oh.
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Circuspreneur Podcast
Oh.
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Yasya
So they kind of combine puppets with magic. So, and they had this and these tissues, like light tissue, which all the um magician people use, you know, this light tissue to cover something and then something appears.
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Yasya
So this light tissue, I loved it. And I was like, oh, this is cool. i would And then, at the same time, when I was ah when i was in rhythmic gymnastics, we always been working with i items, you know, we had these ropes, ribbons, so and I kind of was... um I found we found... They found for me big tissue, so I could kind of improvise, dance, you know, and i also do, like, gymnastic trickings at the same time, and, like, we can throw and do, like... and I don't know how to say, like, some...
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Yasya
I don't know how to say in any English, you know, theres some trick, for example, and then catch it.
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a
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Yasya
Yeah, so, and since that time, I was like, this is interesting, actually, you know, but after i was, like, doing this, so using this, like, my a recital things in gymnastics, you know, and we have recitals, so we were going out,
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Yasya
And then everybody had like kind of little act from you which is not connected to sport So that I was was using i was using this tissue. I was like Combining it with in doing like kind of magic trick when I take it out from myself, you know like and then I was doing like Tricks and you know all the rhythmic gymnastics, but with this tissue
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Circuspreneur Podcast
Mm-hmm. Oh.
00:12:04
Yasya
And after already forgot about that and it passed so many times, was doing duopal dance with different girls because one girl was pregnant, the other girl was pregnant.
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Yasya
And then got pregnant because everybody got pregnant. I want to also get pregnant.
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Circuspreneur Podcast
Yeah. ah Why not me?
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Yasya
like come want to, you know,
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Circuspreneur Podcast
Must be the poll. We don't know what it is.
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Yasya
I I I burned child. I burned my baby. It's a girl, you know, and uh, And then I was thinking, starting to s think like, come on, I can't just stop my career. I need to do something. I took the girl. So I started to do pole dance together, do pole dance, but then COVID started.
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Yasya
And I was like, this has never happened.
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Circuspreneur Podcast
wow
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Yasya
You know, you always want to continue working, but duo, that's amazing. i love it. But you need to be kind of business person like... or you know like not friends connected maybe sister you know it's easier and yeah like like most of the do it they are couples you know and
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Circuspreneur Podcast
Connected. Yeah. Friendly.
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Yasya
they work for many years, so you know, they, like, they build career and they build life at the same time, and it's kind of hard, of course, for me, you know, because, like, but the act that we had with the two girls, it was amazing, you know, because everybody, like, two girls, strong girls, what representing, you know, like, independency on stage, you know, like, with all these beautiful legs and blah, blah, blah, you know, and, but I was like, okay, but now I need to sing, how I need to work alone, because,
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Circuspreneur Podcast
Yeah.
Career Progression and Creative Environment
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Yasya
know,
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Yasya
When you write a mail and you say, pull dancer, nobody gonna even open this, you know?
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I'm good.
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Yasya
like Pull dancer, you know? And especially when you, like, for example, write to theater, what is, like... yeah Like in Germany, you many theaters, they like, you know, classic theaters, say they like, okay, pole dancers. So I was like trying to find what kind of helped me to sell myself, how I can describe it in one word, you know, and I was like, and I went back to my memories, you know, so like what I was using. So I took this tissue and I started to improvise and think what I can do with it.
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Yasya
And i was like, this is interesting, you know, at least it gives you ah something like you the person looking and they they have interest to watch you. They're not like, okay, this is it every trick we saw. This is the same pole dance service.
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Yasya
we already seen this kind of you know things it's nothing special okay and then yeah i started the combining with rhythmic gymnastics and you know and it became actually ah interesting because this thing you can develop it's not it doesn't it's not only for example two tricks you can try many things you know and it it always will be interesting you know with this yeah this how it came yeah
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Circuspreneur Podcast
Right. Right. right
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Yasya
yeah
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Circuspreneur Podcast
Well, and coming from you, i mean, like your perspective and it's not so easy. i mean, you make it sound like it's easy, but I like that you thought about, you know, what was I doing previously? And then it's sometimes it's like the innovation that you had before that's maybe like an old innovation. And then you come back and you use it and it's new you're like,
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Circuspreneur Podcast
this is what's going to make me stand out. This is what's going to make me different and make me unique. And then it led to you coming to Las Vegas. It led to you coming to Rouge. I mean, like having this particular this this unique concept.
00:15:29
Yasya
Thank you.
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Circuspreneur Podcast
So it's like what brought you to like a new level. I think it's always so challenging. Like what's going to bring me to a new level, like for my performance, what's going to make me stand out? What's going to make me more like original?
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Circuspreneur Podcast
And you came from Sporia, so you had like a really long history. Can you talk about like your transition from rhythmic gymnastics and then into circus? Like, was it, was it easy for you?
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Circuspreneur Podcast
Like you kind of always wanted to do this because of your performance?
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Yasya
Yeah, oh my god, yeah, will tell you, so rhythmic gymnastics, like every sport, hard, you know, sometimes we had from 9 o'clock till 6 p.m., all day training before we go to Ukraine ah national, for example, you know,
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yeah
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schools
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Yasya
implications You know, so it was like kind of hard of course, you know, I remember even like you did you ask, you know our coaches I had two coaches one is for for group and Like five girls ah and they have like group exer Like group and act and I was solo also
00:16:24
Circuspreneur Podcast
thank you
00:16:32
Yasya
in a rhythm but when I when they went to to the group um act, sorry, it was different woman, is she was crazy, she was like, ah, you can't drink, you to ask me when you can drink, and who was like, oh my God, really, you need to ask?
00:16:47
Yasya
Because when when I was doing in the other group, gymnastics, where was my real teacher, she was actually circus performer before, so she was like more normal.
00:16:58
Circuspreneur Podcast
Like discipline.
00:17:02
Yasya
you know not this like no not like not this you know not this crazy you know discipline is too much you know you need to talk about you can drink or what and this yeah my original coach she gave me like big start you know for everything like she didn't like she didn't like
00:17:03
Circuspreneur Podcast
no
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Circuspreneur Podcast
like discipline
00:17:25
Yasya
ah she she She helped me, you know that I i became artist after that notto because not No many people have career in the sport later. They but You know, they they they try to find the other yourself in the other place, you know in the other art So yeah, and then i finished with gymnastic. I did master of sport finally and I was like, yes You know you know enough
00:17:54
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I know school enough training.
00:17:57
Yasya
I said, I need to run. And then my mom said, okay, what you want to it do? I said, I don't know. I'll do something. then you say She said, go to Circus Academy, you know, in Kiev Circus Academy. was like, okay, what do you want to don't know.
00:18:13
Yasya
I don't want to sit on the split. I don't want that. I don't want to do this bendy sinks anymore. This tricks. It hurts. My body hurts. My hips hurts. Everything hurts. I'm like, I'm going to do more choreography.
00:18:25
Yasya
You know, so I pass exam for choreography.
00:18:28
Circuspreneur Podcast
Oh.
00:18:28
Yasya
I mean, but when I go inside of the college, I remember this academy. It's like Hogwarts. I tell it. I was like, oh no. way i finally i found my place you know somebody is like juggling the guy like juggling the other guy is like doing like pantomime somebody's walking and talking to yourself like you know like rehearsing like acting and somebody is like doing vocal training and you hear everything like oh my god, finally, oh my god, yeah I get to my place, you know, nobody's screaming, everybody's just about the idea, about the creation, about the developing, you know, yeah of course we have rules, you know, but these rules doesn't, like, close you, a person never oh the all the coaches, they wanted to open you, and to find, to help you to find your way, you know, the best to perform, so you can be kind of...
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people
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Mmm.
Opportunities and International Exposure
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Yasya
a person who yeah whom who can who can show something to the world, you know. Yeah, and um so I was doing gym nice or i was doing this ah choreography and was dancing.
00:19:40
Yasya
Then i I went to TV casting to pass the casting for TV show, and they took me. And it was like, so you think you can dance, but Ukrainian version, you know.
00:19:49
Circuspreneur Podcast
Ooh.
00:19:51
Yasya
And I and know was like...
00:19:51
Circuspreneur Podcast
Ooh. I love it.
00:19:54
Yasya
for me was hard there was a hard moment that I need to remember all the routines and they did all this I especially use this hip-hop oh my god because I'm from beat me I like everything slow contemporary jazz it's okay for me but hip-hop Wow tapachi to
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Circuspreneur Podcast
Yeah.
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Circuspreneur Podcast
Right. Right.
00:20:12
Yasya
like put the but And I'm like, you serious? Like three seconds of the routine and my mind already overloaded. You know, I don't, I cannot remember anything.
00:20:22
Circuspreneur Podcast
wow
00:20:25
Yasya
So I went, I was like struggling with myself, you know, like doing my best in this, in this show. And so, and they, they allow me to go to top 20. So I was like, I'm a lucky person.
00:20:36
Circuspreneur Podcast
yeah
00:20:38
Yasya
They took me there. And then i had, it was like a camp, you know, camp for one month from nine o'clock to nine.
00:20:40
Circuspreneur Podcast
yeah
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Circuspreneur Podcast
see
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Yasya
We had like, we start from jazz after we have classic, after we have ballroom things, ballroom dancing, after we have hip hop, after we have acting, after we have psychology, even we had, you know.
00:21:01
Yasya
Yeah, and it was really intense. I think for one month I got to more experience, of course, and I would get anywhere else because it was just of intensity and at the same time stress, you know, and you see the kind of dancers with you.
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Circuspreneur Podcast
Yeah.
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Circuspreneur Podcast
Yeah.
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Yasya
i'm like And I'm like new dancer, you know, I'm not with big experience people like experienced dancers, of course.
00:21:20
Circuspreneur Podcast
Mm-hmm.
00:21:24
Yasya
Yeah, but I was like young dancer who is like just from rhythmic gymnastics.
00:21:25
Circuspreneur Podcast
Amazing.
00:21:28
Yasya
You know, all my story is that I'm dancing. I'm from rhythmic gymnastics. I dance only one year, you know. and didn
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Circuspreneur Podcast
I'm super new, even though I'm amazing.
00:21:37
Yasya
super new, you know, yeah.
00:21:39
Circuspreneur Podcast
just came from out of nowhere. and bet.
00:21:42
Yasya
Yeah, and it was so hard for me, you know. I had a
00:21:46
Circuspreneur Podcast
I bet.
00:21:49
Yasya
and so live broadcast, and then I was kicked out, of course. Because it was hard, you know. I accept that it was hard, but it was a great experience, you know. they also And also they gave me after so many and so many opportunities to work with TV, you know.
00:22:09
Yasya
I was invited many times for different type of group of ah like They had like concerts from so you think you can dance in TV. So I had like big events after that, you know and after that and my career i yeah started to go up I was working with yeah yeah Ukrainian famous singers, you know in front of the big big room, you know many many people inside like so yeah
00:22:23
Circuspreneur Podcast
We got yours started.
00:22:31
Circuspreneur Podcast
Okay.
00:22:38
Yasya
yeah And then I got to the circus theater which called bingo and they have quite Yeah, and they're going to famous So she's all is the the woman you know, she's also from Academy of circus arts, you know, so she was She was like ah she was our director
00:22:47
Circuspreneur Podcast
Oh, yeah. one um
00:23:02
Yasya
so yeah I came and she said we have like contract in the you know, we have like So we're gonna prepare ourselves and we're gonna go do you want go?
00:23:02
Circuspreneur Podcast
yeah
00:23:14
Yasya
go to germany if you want let's work together you know so and we started to work after with germany was uh um yeah i was dancing here in the same way we were standing there but in the same time we started to do with my partner pool dance
00:23:17
Circuspreneur Podcast
Mm-hmm.
00:23:22
Circuspreneur Podcast
I'm sure. Gingo.
Pursuing Pole Dancing and Challenges
00:23:29
Yasya
together you know yeah yeah we started actually no started like that oh my god it's so long story i don't know
00:23:29
Circuspreneur Podcast
Oh, okay. That's when you started. With Gingo.
00:23:36
Yasya
so So started like that we come to theater we are dance blah blah blah and then becoming one woman she's so famous in pole dancing her Her name is Anastasia and she had like ah she was started she's amazing She's also like doing like some like flips on the pool on the pole, you know, so she's like kind of strong doing strong things she's doing and
00:23:54
Circuspreneur Podcast
Bye.
00:23:58
Yasya
And then she said, wow, one year? I'm not gonna go for contract for one year. You crazy? I have studio here. I have my apprentice, you know, my my students here. I'm not gonna go to one year contract. And she's like left and only what she, she left from the theater and she left the pool. I mean, the pool was empty and it was like, okay, maybe we're gonna do, you know, the pool. So I started to do the pool.
00:24:25
Circuspreneur Podcast
ah
00:24:26
Yasya
Yeah.
00:24:26
Circuspreneur Podcast
Oh, like this, really?
00:24:26
Yasya
Yeah.
00:24:27
Circuspreneur Podcast
in case you didn't want to go into the tour.
00:24:27
Yasya
ah Yeah, and was so hard in the beginning. It was so hard in the beginning, you know. Oh, my God. I had, like, my bruises all over body. It was, like, blue, you know.
00:24:37
Circuspreneur Podcast
Yeah. Yeah. Starting from nothing, starting from scratch. Pull is hard.
00:24:41
Yasya
Yes, like, it's circus, circus things, you know, and to work with prop is different.
00:24:42
Circuspreneur Podcast
It's a man.
00:24:48
Yasya
yeah we I did also Lyra before and I had also like, but when you're a dancer, it's different body work, totally.
00:24:48
Circuspreneur Podcast
<unk>re Not very different.
00:24:52
Circuspreneur Podcast
Mm-hmm.
00:24:56
Yasya
Yeah, so we started to work after, we we started to get better, better, better. We went to contract and we were like increasing our level with the tricks, you know, trying to push like, so it looks harder.
00:25:10
Yasya
And ah we went to, does super talent in Germany, Zane, you know.
00:25:15
Circuspreneur Podcast
Oh, me too.
00:25:16
Yasya
Yeah, it was the,
00:25:17
Circuspreneur Podcast
We both have super talent. I had so much fun there.
00:25:19
Yasya
Right? In Germany?
00:25:20
Circuspreneur Podcast
Yeah. yeah Yeah, in Germany, yeah, yeah, in Berlin, I had the Golden Buzzer. I think I was doing Winter Garden and then, and I also did Da Super Talon at the same time, like Da Super Talon in the afternoon and then Winter Garden at night.
00:25:32
Circuspreneur Podcast
Yeah, yeah, it was great.
00:25:33
Yasya
yeah or Yeah, did is that was amazing. I just remember we were waiting full on time, so they're gonna let us out, you know. Yeah, after we did Padre Sebastian show, all no and I was watching it since I was small, and then, you know, our director said, do you want to go there?
00:25:46
Circuspreneur Podcast
Oh my God.
00:25:51
Yasya
was like, oh, come on, of course I want to go there. This story.
00:25:54
Circuspreneur Podcast
Yeah.
00:25:56
Yasya
Yeah.
00:25:56
Circuspreneur Podcast
ah Bingo to Patrick Sebastian.
00:25:57
Yasya
Yeah. Yeah.
00:26:00
Circuspreneur Podcast
Yeah, you were a part of bingo when you went to Patrick Sebastian.
00:26:03
Yasya
Yeah, no, we're doing like two hours, do a pole dance there.
00:26:06
Circuspreneur Podcast
Oh, this was when you were doing your duopold dance.
00:26:07
Yasya
Yeah.
00:26:07
Circuspreneur Podcast
Okay, so this was after.
00:26:08
Yasya
Yeah.
00:26:09
Circuspreneur Podcast
Wow. Yeah, that's amazing.
00:26:10
Yasya
Yeah, yeah, yeah. It was like, just because it was, ah we come we are like dancers, like, we combine it with, like, nice ah nice transitions, you know, with not just trick, you go, trick, you go.
00:26:15
Circuspreneur Podcast
Mm-hmm.
00:26:23
Circuspreneur Podcast
Mm-hmm.
00:26:24
Yasya
So we were like, Thinking so long with this like like how to go out how to go in with this trick You know, you cannot do it. So we were like we had really nice work, you know So we did like we were thinking in every trick how we need to put it and of course it was important also because we had good music, you know and always music Yeah, music is so important when you have you know so people a you know just give all attention to you because the the music is like attractive and
00:26:42
Circuspreneur Podcast
or is
00:26:54
Circuspreneur Podcast
Yeah, especially for this show and this environment on TV.
00:26:54
Yasya
Yeah. Yeah.
00:26:57
Circuspreneur Podcast
It's such a classic show. And again, so elegant and so popular. And this audience is like so unique and so like excited to see Circus. Like everybody is is is on this show.
00:27:08
Yasya
yeah
00:27:10
Circuspreneur Podcast
Everyone's like dreaming to be on that show.
00:27:13
Yasya
Yeah, it's not it's amazing. yeah This is like a story I remember after I went to different contracts. It was Teatro, Roncalli, we work, Apollo, GOP, you know, Europa Park, all these cool places, you know, Fantissima, Flick Flack also was amazing.
00:27:26
Circuspreneur Podcast
Yeah.
00:27:29
Circuspreneur Podcast
Oh, feels
Diverse Show Experiences
00:27:31
Circuspreneur Podcast
like it's always amazing.
00:27:31
Yasya
I love
00:27:32
Circuspreneur Podcast
Like this show is always cool and dope. Always.
00:27:36
Yasya
it. It was always fun. Oh my God, the best part is in Flick Flack.
00:27:38
Circuspreneur Podcast
energy, like it's like, it's like punk rock. It's everything. It's so dark. I love it. Yeah.
00:27:48
Yasya
yeah yeah it's like free you know yeah this actually is a kind of i would like also to work you know it's a little bit dark but like open this also i i like like this you can do kind of whatever you want on stage you know it's important to be free yeah yeah
00:27:55
Circuspreneur Podcast
yeah Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's a good freedom. It doesn't take anything.
00:28:09
Yasya
yes
00:28:10
Circuspreneur Podcast
experiment. But it's so great to listen to your journey and to listen to your story about how you came from sport and then how you became a dancer.
00:28:17
Yasya
but
00:28:21
Circuspreneur Podcast
And then you went to develop yourself as a choreographer and as a circus artist and a pole artist. and you went from dual pole to solo pole and you worked with all of these major companies and you went from So You Think You Can Dance and you went to work with Theater Bingo.
00:28:35
Circuspreneur Podcast
Then you ended up on such a popular TV show. And then you went to work with every famous circus in Europe. And then you ended up in Las Vegas in a very popular sexy show here.
00:28:44
Yasya
Yeah!
00:28:47
Circuspreneur Podcast
It's like, you know, your entire history is so amazing. We have like one more minute left in the podcast.
Conclusion and Reflections on the Journey
00:28:53
Circuspreneur Podcast
I'm so happy to have you. You have such amazing, fabulous energy.
00:28:57
Circuspreneur Podcast
I know everyone is so happy.
00:28:58
Yasya
Yes, thank you so much. I had so much fun really. Oh my god. I was like in the beginning I don't know didn't give interview for many years. I was like, I don't need to talk about it And you you're so good.
00:29:08
Circuspreneur Podcast
I don't know.
00:29:09
Yasya
Thank you so much I can feel you know, it's important when you feel with your With person you're talking to that you you you want to open, you know, so it's important It's really important that you you can open you know person in front of you.
00:29:22
Yasya
So yes, thank you
00:29:25
Circuspreneur Podcast
I'm glad you were comfortable. I'm glad that you enjoyed yourself. You, you know, you gave us like a really wonderful story and you're so funny and you have such like bright energy and it was so great to speak with you.
00:29:37
Circuspreneur Podcast
And just, if you want to leave the podcast with one last, you know, comment, I think about your experience with Rouge and how you want people to experience the show here and to come and see you
Closing Remarks on Rouge and Stagelink Pro
00:29:49
Circuspreneur Podcast
at the Strad.
00:29:49
Circuspreneur Podcast
I know people are always excited to come and see you perform. ah Yeah, what you what would you like to share?
00:29:54
Yasya
yeah Yeah, I think the show is running really nice. Even we had changed already many acts and many people came new. We were only a three or four people, original cast.
00:30:08
Circuspreneur Podcast
Yeah.
00:30:08
Yasya
The show gives the same cool vibe, you know, what is actually you don't really see everywhere.
00:30:12
Circuspreneur Podcast
yeah
00:30:15
Yasya
circles and beautiful bodies, you know, topless things, the choreography, everything. that it it's ah It's something with what you don't really see everywhere. in We have only one show right now like that in Las Vegas, you know, with a circus burlesque with the elegance, you know, with the beauty and yeah young people, you know, on and stage.
00:30:38
Yasya
It's amazing. The energy goes really good, you know.
00:30:41
Circuspreneur Podcast
Yeah.
00:30:42
Yasya
So, yeah, come to us. Come. For sure you're not going to ring that. yeah
00:30:48
Circuspreneur Podcast
Come see Ysilda. Come see her on her fabulous, fabulous poll act. She's amazing. You're so gorgeous, Ysilda. Thank you so much for coming on to the podcast. I adore you. You're so fun. You're such a wonderful artist and just a lovely, beautiful person and great personality. And listeners, I hope that you enjoyed listening to Ysilda.
00:31:09
Circuspreneur Podcast
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00:31:10
Yasya
Thank you.
00:31:13
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00:31:24
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00:31:39
Circuspreneur Podcast
Until next time, everyone, I'm your host, Shanae Saleto. Please tune in to the next episode of the Circuspreneur podcast. And again, thank you so much to our fantastic and fabulous guest, Yasilda.
00:31:51
Yasya
Thank you so much for having me. Thank you,