From East London to Olivier Winner Dickson Mbi’s Journey in Dance and Resilience

Award-winning dancer and choreographer Dickson Mbi joins Tunde on How I Crushed It to share his journey from East London to winning an Olivier Award. Get the inside track on the sacrifices, setbacks, and successes that shaped Dickson Mbi's groundbreaking dance career. Dickson Mbi's resilience after a devastating knee injury nearly ended his dancing career Lessons from a childhood split between Cameroon boarding school and East London How rejection from professional football led to an unexpected career in dance The process of launching his own dance company and navigating the business side of the arts Creating the Olivier Award-winning show Enowate and the story behind his latest production, Tell Us, at Sadler's Wells East Dickson accepting Olivier Award   Listen back to interviews with: Cassa Pancho - Founder and Artistic Director of Ballet Black   Stay in touch: Instagram: @howicrushedit Know someone else who is CRUSHING IT? Email us at [email protected] Use the hashtag #howicrushedit on Twitter & Instagram Want some uplifting music to help you CRUSH IT? Check out the playlist This playlist has been curated by guests that have appeared on the podcast   🪙To support the podcast: buymeacoffee.com/howicrushedit