“If you love yourself, you won’t hurt yourself. And then you won’t hurt other people. It’s that simple. Maybe it’s been that simple all along.” -Mme Olga, relevant worldwide ❤️

So well done, this really is inspiring how he was able to come back and teach the next generation of dancers and Madam Olga is a wonderful instructor.

@michaelcusumano5879

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much!

@BenSATX

3 жыл бұрын

@@michaelcusumano5879 I had to watch it again, like you said Olga brings the joy back to ballet. I believe in you!

I just love Madam Olga and YOU!!!!! Thank you for sharing her with the world. My daughter is 12 and has hopes of becoming a professional dancer. Olga’s light is definitely needed in this world.

@michaelcusumano5879

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for these kind words

Being the mentor you wish you had is such a powerful, circular act of love. For yourself and for others. Thank you for sharing this story!

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3 жыл бұрын

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Madame Olga brings such a positive light to the ballet world to bring joy to the next generation of dancers. Thank you for your love and light :)

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3 жыл бұрын

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“Olga is a way to still do ballet but give ballet to people that’s joyful” 🥺🥰 …so much packed into those words that I’m sure many can relate to. Thank you for being such a warm, beautiful and incredibly talented mentor to all! Bravo

I am so very glad that you found her and that she found you.

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Despite our love for ballet, some of us got scarred by professional training, and sadly never quite recovered years later. The hurt, insecurity and self hate has stayed with us and comes through in other ways, outside of the dance world. Now in academia, I still get that feeling of wanting to run away when I face rejection or produce inadequate drafts of my papers, just like I used to feel at auditions or in class when I didn't get the combination and had to perform it. Thank you Mikey. May all you give us come back to you tenfold. And remember that the Seniors love you!

Mme Olga has such a genuine contagious joy, I couldn't stop smiling watching her uplift all her students and encourage them in ways we all need. I wish I would have seen this earlier, it's so so powerful.

Amazing film and it literally touched my heart ❤️. I wasn’t a ballet dancer but it was my dream when I was a kid. I understand how the pressure can break us apart and makes us hate what we love for so many years (in my case rhythmic gymnastics) . Thank you so much for becoming that role model that so many kids are looking forward to follow. I hope one day I’ll get the amazing opportunity to take one of your classes madame Olga !!!

Being traumatized at that age changes your brain. And it's so hard to get back into something you loved when its taken away from you by abuse. I'm not used to seeing someone like me, especially not someone thriving. For people who don't live with dissociative disorders, this video might be confusing, but for those of us who do this means the absolute world. We all wish to go back and care for the children we could have been.

This is a complete MASTERPIECE Mikey! I have watched this countless times & am still amazed every single time! Madame Olga is a star ⭐️ & the world needs more of her. More love! More kindness. More light. You should be so proud of this piece & I believe this is just the beginning of an amazing chapter starring Madame Olga 🩰

Love love love for this!!! ❤️ inspiring, touching, beautiful and meaningful. Those 14.30 minutes touched me profoundly. Send you only love

@michaelcusumano5879

3 жыл бұрын

Love back!

Your hug at Jake's was well needed. Beautiful video in many ways. I'm glad I made you laugh with my moves.❤

There’s so much love and fun and positive energy in Madame Olga’s ballet class :)

@michaelcusumano5879

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you

Absolute perseverance! Thank you for sharing Madam Olga and sharing love and joy❤️

@michaelcusumano5879

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you!!!

Madame Olga gives us self-love and adds so much joy to the ballet world! ♥️

@smadm2437

3 жыл бұрын

Well said Joan :) We are on this journey together! What were the odds!

Thank you for all joy, love and inspiration, Madame! I'm a big fan ❤

@michaelcusumano5879

3 жыл бұрын

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This so reminds me of my early therapy sessions. I had developed depression in parallel with puberty, and the lens of depression turned what were objectively normal events in my life into subjectively traumatic ones. Those traumatic memories kept reinforcing themselves with each remembrance, re-living them over and over, re-traumatizing myself, until they became both my nightmares, and a curtain between me and the world. Decades later, the first steps in my therapy were to remove the power of those distorted memories, then ease the memories themselves by casting them in more realistic perspectives. The primary tool in that therapy was my current self, combined with the perspectives my therapist was helping me learn (via CBT). It started with talking back to the intrusive memories, telling them I didn't want them to play right now, telling them they were bad for me, telling them that what happened to that boy is no longer happening to this man. Breaking the repetitive reinforcement loop. It took time, but they did obey my will, and the nightmares became less frequent and finally stopped. That, in essence, locked each traumatic memory in its box. The next phase was to open each box, take out the memory, and really look at it, both with my current insights, and also while trying to understand what the boy was perceiving. This, too, had to be repeated many times, until the trauma finally faded, and I had a sad or scary, but no longer traumatic memory. I came to know that boy, to see and feel his depression, his confusion interacting with the world, and his internal and external reactions to it. I came to love that boy as the trauma between us started to fade and become transparent. I finally reached the point where I had all the tools I needed to proceed on my own, and to manage my depression without medication. Which basically made me something closer to a "normal" person. I did not take my internal lessons and share them with the world. They did not become an alter-ego for me. I see Madame Olga as the very embodiment of the path from illness and trauma to health and happiness. To invert oneself, to expose the resolved pain and direct it toward others to create strength and growth. I think we need more Madame Olgas before we need more therapists. I've never seen a therapist who could lead an entire class!

Kudos to PBS for bringing to light such a remarkable human being and personal story. Madam Olga is a SUPERSTAR of incredible luminosity! ✨ and owes her success entirely to the joy that her mentor, Mikey Cusumano, brings into this world. There are not enough accolades that should be showered upon one so incredibly talented, patient and generous. Just look at the faces on the children and adults clinging to Madam’s every word of instruction and pearl of wisdom. This world is a better place because of both Madam - and Mikey! 🩰

I love Madame Olga. I’m the most awkward person in the world. I so admire grace, beauty

YOU are one of those people on earth that's helping the one's who are empaths, feeling life's struggles, the creative artists who want to express their emotions in a way that's exquisite.....the one's who write run-on sentences because they just can't express in written language how MAGNIFICENT you are! You've helped me get out of the blackness & push forward. Also, you are a gorgeous, lovely dancer!!! I wish you were my teacher & I feel so lucky to have found you, thank you for sharing your classes🖤 I've got physical disabilities that make my body hurt & beyond exhausted, (I don't have any medication anymore-...)so I had to quit ballet. When I am able, I take your classes 🖤 🩰You, little Mikey, are helping US and I hope you're healing❣😇I LOVE YOU😇🥰❣😇

Simply, amazing! Beautiful story, journey and person… Wow!

This is an amazing story about an amazing man and it is so well done. Thank you for introducing me to Michael and Madam Olga.

I enjoyed your documentary Michael met you in the borgata today, amazing you have such a bright inspiring story and strength to overcome

You are AMAZING!!! You sat next to my mother on the train to Chicago, and my daughter also dances! You are so amazing, blessed to have met you

I absolutely adore Madame Olga! She is such a wonderful person and a light! So blessed that I got to take one of her classes 🥰 I’ve learned so much from her. It was the most fun and hardest class I have ever taken, but I would 💯 do it again!

I loved this so much, I’ve watched it twice.❤

LOVE LOVE LOVE!!!

This is incredibly touching.

We love you, Madam Olga! ❤🧡💛💚💙💜

So beautiful i can cry 😢♥️♥️♥️

Such a breath of fresh air ! A joy to see you and Mme Olga working together to bring love and light in everybody's lives. I will share this little gem with my dancer friends (and my Russian teacher mother :) Thanks for your amazing work

Madame Olga brings so much light and joy to everyone in her class! The dance world is so much better because of her and Mikey- they are inspiring and empowering dancers of all ages. I’m so grateful for them and the energy and love that exudes from the moment Madame Olga walks in the room. Sending love!♥️

Beautiful score💜 Lovely story.

This is so beautiful ❤️ Congratulations 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

Madam Olga is right 👍. Love yourself, love others. That's it, that's all. 🕊️❤️🤘😁🖖🇨🇦

Madam olga you are a star ⭐️ in the sky and I love you from the first time I saw you.Mickey you are so beautiful so wonderful person and soooooooo beautiful dancer !!!thank you for everything you do for the people and the students…

"Let's dance for love" 💗💗💗💗

How do we create safe spaces for children? How do we mentor the gifted prodigies? Who protects these children? What a journey of healing through art.

So poignant and inspiring!

This is unbelievably sweet ❤️🥺

im glad madam olga is a productive personality within you. i hope business is good and the students are even better. i was watching this 60mins episode about multiple personality disorders and most of that lady's alter egos were useless or creepy. i think she had 8 or something like that and she sometimes didn't have control over which one took over her body if i recall correctly.

I can attest to the amazing and beautiful mentor and friend you are

My life has been changed for the better. Love you Madame Olga

Thank you 🙏

Amazing

Bravo!!!

I love this.

Gentlemen, the only thing worse than not being a star, is being a STAR. Don’t believe me ask Brad Pitt.

Now I know why I always thought you were a star!

Brilliant.

Absolutely beautiful!!!

"If you love yourself, you won't hurt yourself. If you don't hurt yourself, you won't hurt other people. It's that simple." --Mme. Olga. Honestly, if we'd all been taught that, the world would be a better place. T H A N K Y O U Michael, for all you've been through, all you've thrived through, and all the gold you've brought us as a result.

I love you Madame Olga!❤️ I love you Mikey!❤️🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼Thankful❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

I just love her

Once again, I am reminded that dissociation is a brilliant step on the journey of healing; dissociation is a step forward - not a step back. Congratulation to Michael, Olga, and everyone else in your system!

@lilywater3683

3 жыл бұрын

I am crying. Olga is type of alter who is created out of self-love and embodies self-love. Now, I think about it, all alters are created out of self-love, system-love. Your system is so lucky to have her as protector!

This is absolutely life incredible

It is a beautiful thing when you can finally find yourself when that magic moment happens and something in your head just clicks! For whatever reason, whether it be an object or even looking at yourself differently like in this scenario!! It is always a good thing when you can feel whole maybe have that piece that was missing those many years ago........... Something to feel a whole inside........ But you know it's good. Because it feel bad. AND I'M NOT SPEAKING ABOUT THE TIME!!!!! AT THE TIME IT FELT GOOD!!!!!!! NO!!!!!!!! You look back and it feels good

@michaelcusumano5879

3 жыл бұрын

This means a lot 💚

This is wonderful! I'm glad I got to see this!

Wow!! Just amazing and beautiful video. Watching this reminds me of why I fell in love with dance and the performing arts in the first place! We need more teachers, producers and directors...leaders...like this in the arts world. The love of self and those around you is just as important if not more than the art itself. It's what makes art glorious! Thank you for this.

Ooohhh my dear!!! I feel you’re sorrow, i hug you whit love. And thanks for who are you, the word need love and you are love. You look so similar to my teacher Miss Olga Stone here in Chile. Kiss and love for you!

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3 жыл бұрын

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12:27. My heart aches for you.

How can I find out if you ever come to Texas To teach again?I’m a former Seiskaya student

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Someday, perhaps, Michael will not need Olga. But the ballet world-in fact the whole world-will probably still need Olga.

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Thank you for being YOU!!!! 🥳✨ I’ve been working on healing my inner child and this really hit home…. Your classes are so wonderful and fun, I cannot thank you enough for sharing your love and joy!! You’re healing the world one tendu at a time! 😄 Thank you, Madame Olga, thank you, Mikey!!! ❤️

I was very lucky to have attended a zoom master class taught by Madame Olga

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˝help him˝ he means himself when he was younger?

@michaelcusumano5879

3 жыл бұрын

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The supportive boyfriend is everything ♡

Why does olga remind me of katya zamulochikova 😭

I've had that conversation so many times... I am here to give him the love and attention no one ever did... and this allow me to also share that love with others rather than allowing him to be this resentful and hurtful creature.

I truly believe that you found your path❤️ i met you when we were both teaching in Dallas! Your energy both as Michael and Olga… so beautiful. Your online classes are so much fun. You make us laugh and feel something like no other can. You are a star. Always have been. Hugs and love from Texas❤️🙏

Absolutely INCREDIBLE! Brought me to tears

Achingly delicate and honest film about finding love for yourself. Thank you MO for setting the example for all of us.

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3 жыл бұрын

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Beautiful documentary about a beautiful person! We love you, Mikey and we love you, too, Madame Olga!❤️❤️❤️

People looked at you and thought "who is this Russian woman!???"

Thank you Olga!!! Thanks for this and all your love. I’m so grateful to have met you ✨💙

Thank you. I wish I could hug you both. And I wonder if we all are reaching back to our childhood selves to make our past self and future self whole and understood, like only we can.

I'm sure Katya would be proud ❤ But honselty, I am so proud and grateful to know someone's life is now better because they found their true happiness.

This feels borderline multiple personality disorder. If he's not getting counseling/therapy he desperately needs to. .

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she will be bestfriends with Katya...

What's that degeneracy? PBS, what's wrong with you?

Why is he wearing make up on the subway?

OMG, how this is not racist!!! A person impersonates other culture in a weird way. That is very offensive. So dressing in other cultures' national costumes during Halloween is not good, and by what metric is that good!

@lauracusumano9473

3 жыл бұрын

You are ignorant

I hope my kid will not be dancing with you

What a beautiful piece...bravo!! I love both Michael and Madame Olga; such unique people with so much love to give/show. I hope Madame Olga can help return young Michael where he rightfully belongs. There is nothing more painful than having a part of your Being being stolen and displaced through hurtful and sometimes terrible acts. Thank you so much for sharing, PBS. Today we dance for love! ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🤎🖤💙💓🤍💓💙💃🏻🕺🏻👯‍♂️🩰

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