# Ep. 24: Inside the world of commercial dance, with Angela Elgani

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Podcast: [The Leadership Dance](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-leadership-dance-7102140)
Published: 2025-09-01T19:30:00+00:00
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Duration seconds: 2050

## Resource

Get a peek inside the commercial dance world from Angela Elgani, a renowned dancer, choreographer, and mentor whose two-decade career has taken her from world tours with Britney Spears, NSYNC, and the Backstreet Boys to blockbuster films like You Got Served and Step Up Revolution. Angela shares her remarkable journey from a determined young girl in St. Louis to performing on some of the biggest stages in the world and later pivoting toward teaching, coaching, and empowering the next generation of dancers. Angela opens up about her personal challenges, including the devastating loss of her husband just months before the birth of her daughter, and how she ultimately found resilience, healing, and new purpose through dance and mentorship. She reflects on the lessons the stage taught her and how these same lessons fuel her work today as a coach and entrepreneur. ______________________________________________ 💡 Key Takeaways: Sometimes you have to pivot. The easier you can turn and keep moving, the easier your life will be. Befriend everybody. Everybody can help you in some way, or you can learn something from them in some way. Mentorship and mindset are as important as talent when building a sustainable career ______________________________________________ Connect with Angela: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/xoxoangela_elgani Website: https://www.danceindustrycoach.com ______________________________________________ ✅ Sign up for the newsletter: https://theleadershipdance.substack.com/s/the-leadership-dance 👉Share, listen and follow: https://linktr.ee/theleadershipdance

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