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WHO IS WASTED TALENT MEDIA? Ever wonder who has helped Verb Ballets pivot to film this season? Wasted Talent Media, a multiaward-winning film, broadcast, and digital media production company created in 2009. Winners of several ADDY and AVA awards, Wasted Talent Media creates inspiring content across a broad
Carnival Macabre (2020) Dancers: Daniel Cho, Julie Russel
Photo: Kolman Rosenberg
creative spectrum from documentary film to television and advertising. Wasted Talent Media is also the creator and producer of Arts Quest hosted by Erin Ludlam and Todd Volkmer and distributed throughout the Midwest. Check out Wasted Talent Media at www.wastedtalentmedia.com and on instagram @WTMvideo.
BETSIE SCHAEFFER Betsie Schaeffer was born and raised in Karachi, Pakistan before returning home to New Hampshire at the age of 11. She began her dance career with Northeastern Ballet Theatre. Schaeffer attended Belhaven University where she received awards for outstanding artistic and scholastic achievements. She has attended the Bates Dance Festival, Alabama Dance Festival, the National American College Dance Association Festival at the Kennedy Center and has appeared as a guest performer in local theaters. After graduation, she danced with Ballet Hartford. She moved to Cleveland with her husband, Josh Schaeffer, a dancer with Inlet Dance Theatre in 2018. This is her second season as a trainee with Verb Ballets and she has performed in company repertoire such as Wandering On and Mendelssohn Italian Symphony.
Dancers: Betsie Schaeffer with husband Josh Schaeffer
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verbiculture | November 2020
