4 Oct 2019 · 7 min
Lewis Howes talks with professional dancer Val Chmerkovskiy about his career, upcoming tour, and what makes a performance captivating. Val shares how authenticity and preparation are essential to connecting with an audience.
This is five minute Friday. Today we've got Val Chmerkovsky who is a Ukrainian American professional dancer best known for his appearances on Dancing with the Stars here in the US which he won twice. He is a two time World Latin Dance Champion, Junior and Youth and and a 14 time US national Latin dance Champion. Powerful. His new book I'll Never Change My Name, make sure to grab a copy right now and pre order it. The Kia Sportage Turbo Hybrid has a bold design, a spacious interior with 232 horsepower and a 12.3-inch panoramic display to keep the adventure going and fit with the way you live. And with SiriusXM every drive comes alive, bringing you closer to the music, the sports talk and podcasts that you love right in your vehicle or on the SiriusXM app. Every SiriusXM equipped Kia Sportage Turbo Hybrid includes a three month trial so the experience begins the moment you drive. Learn more@kia.com Sportage Hybrid Kia Movement that.
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I I have a tour this spring. We're going on the road and it's kind of the follow up to to a tour we did two years ago with my brother. And it's, it's like it meant a lot to us and it did really well and now we're going out on tour again and I'm thinking like, how are we gonna make this the best tour ever? I mean, do I think of myself as the best dancer in the world? Not really, honestly. So how am I gonna produce the best product people have ever seen? I realized like the best Is really just you at your best, at your, like, the most authentic you. You can create. That's the best version of what. What you can create, period. You know. And so I learn a lot from others. I observe and I don't have the ego to say that's nothing worth my time. I'm very in tune with what others are doing, and I'm really very complimentary of what others do. But ultimately I take what I can from learning from them, but then I make it as authentically me as possible. And so back to your question. I think people are really inspired by seeing people just super comfortable and authentically themselves. You know, whether they're playing ball or whether they're performing dancing, I think it's just. Or like playing music, creating music. I think anybody that's creating are the most powerful when they're, you know, can exude that authenticity. How do you get to that place.
If you don't feel comfortable with yourself?
Practice. You know, I think ultimately it's like it's not so. I don't know, it's pretty. Like it's not so fancy. You know, the road to success isn't as fancy or as like, complex as people make it. It's like, honestly, just action is really important. Doing, like, wake up, be consistent in your preparation, and it'll probably like, you know, most likely will add up. Like it's really mathematically proven formula of like, the more you do something, the more likely you will succeed in that. You know, it's like the chances are higher now. There's no guarantees, obviously, but you raising the chances of your success by continuously doing something. But yeah, preparation. I grew up, my dad had wrote this huge quote over his desk because at the dance studio, you know, my dad owned the dance studio. Ultimately he got into the business dance because my brother was, you know, wanted to open up a dance studio.
Yeah.
So he was the teacher and my dad kind of managed that. And so I was there every day. And over his desk, his favorite quote is fail to prepare. You prepare to fail. And pretty like. I mean, to some degree, it's pretty shallow of a phrase. I mean, it's definitely a cliche that everyone knows now, but I'm old school like that. I really believe that, you know, confidence, it's like chicken and the egg. What comes first, the confidence or, you know, or the great performance. You have a great performance, so you start believing in yourself, then you have the confidence. Or do you have to have confidence first to really perform at your best? But honestly, it's just like work. That's like the poster you have. It's like an iceberg. And people really just the performance is just the tip of the iceberg. Behind it is all the meat of it.
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