{"id":1083,"date":"2009-11-11T07:28:12","date_gmt":"2009-11-11T15:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carmenelectrode.com\/?p=1083"},"modified":"2009-10-27T07:28:32","modified_gmt":"2009-10-27T15:28:32","slug":"flashdance-and-welding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.arc-zone.com\/carmenelectrode\/2009\/11\/11\/flashdance-and-welding\/","title":{"rendered":"Flashdance and Welding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Do you remember the story of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Flashdance-Jennifer-Beals\/dp\/B00005JKG5\" target=\"_blank\">Flashdance<\/a>? \u00a0Well, of course we all do. \u00a0Welder by day, &#8220;aspiring&#8221; dancer by night. \u00a0Wait a minute &#8212; that story sounds familiar. \u00a0In fact, it&#8217;s remarkably similar to that of the girl below &#8212; so much so, that they even share the same first name&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Dancer-welder&#8217;s life is flashback to &#8216;Flashdance&#8217;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>19-year-old puts ballet on hold while she practices trade to pay for future<\/p>\n<p>Saturday, \u00a0January 26, 2008 3:11 AM<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1084\" title=\"alex-welder\" src=\"\/blog\/carmenelectrode\/wp-content\/alex-welder.jpg\" alt=\"alex-welder\" width=\"180\" height=\"152\" \/>CINCINNATI (AP) &#8212; Alexandra Harrill&#8217;s life as a dancer is reminiscent of the 1983 movie Flashdance, in which the heroine turned to welding to help support herself while she pursued her dream of becoming a professional ballerina.<\/p>\n<p>Harrill, 19, has wanted to be a dancer since she put on her first pair of ballet shoes when she was 8. But she decided she needed another career that could pay the bills until she can make it as a performer.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I need to be able to pay for myself, and get everything that I want by myself, so I needed to leave (dance) behind just for a while,&#8221; Harrill said, explaining why she chose to temporarily abandon dancing for welding.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1085\" title=\"alex-flash\" src=\"\/blog\/carmenelectrode\/wp-content\/alex-flash.jpg\" alt=\"alex-flash\" width=\"180\" height=\"170\" \/>Harrill had worked as a restaurant server while pursuing her craft. She spent three years with the Exhale Dance Tribe contemporary dance company and taught at another studio, but she found it difficult to juggle dance and work.<\/p>\n<p>When her mother suggested welding as a backup career, she wasn&#8217;t enthusiastic, but she soon decided to trade her pointe shoes for steel-toed welder boots and enrolled in a three-week training course.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I ended up being really good at it,&#8221; Harrill said. &#8220;It was pretty exciting, and I caught on pretty quickly.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dispatch.com\/live\/content\/local_news\/stories\/2008\/01\/26\/z-apoh_ballerinawelder_0126.ART_ART_01-26-08_B5_CI95UOF.html\" target=\"_blank\">CONTINUE READING ONLINE -&gt;<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You can read another article about Alex Harrill in <a href=\"http:\/\/weldingmag.com\/operations\/news\/thinking-outside-box_6\/\" target=\"_blank\">Welding Magazine HERE &#8211;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you remember the story of Flashdance? \u00a0Well, of course we all do. \u00a0Welder by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-welding-education","category-welding-fun","entry","fw-tab-6 fw-tabr-4"],"aioseo_notices":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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