Conversations with Martina Pritz

Today we’d like to introduce you to Martina Pritz. 

Hi Martina, so excited to have you with us today. What can you tell us about your story?
December 2019 is the date that I got to Miami… the idea that I had in the beginning was to stayed here just for a few months. But then COVID happened, and I couldn’t get back to Argentina (where I was born and raised). When I first got here, I arrived with an idea of dancing and traveling the world. 

Dance has always been my passion. 

Thankfully my parents always supported me on doing the things that I love, so in Argentina I was fully focus on my dancing carrier. 

After getting here, and mostly after covid, I can say that I was feeling lost. I didn’t knew what to do. Where to go. How to start dancing in this city. And also, my insecurities were not helping on finding that way to make it. 

So, when I realized that I was walking with no direction, I decided to travel. 

I bought a train ticket from Miami to California. 

I had no money, and train traveling, let me tell you, is not cheap hahaha. 

The train trip least 5 days. It stopped in different cities, and it was an amazing adventure. 

After that, I was leaving in the mountains and doing farm work for around 6 months. That was definitely one of the most spiritual experiences I had ever had. 

To make long story short, after 6 months I really got tired of the mountains and wanted to find the way to make it in Miami. To start doing again what I love. To start focusing in my art. 

Hopefully, I met some incredible people in my journey. Friends that still here next to me, friends that I never saw again, friends that I never talked again, heartbreaks… and also continue dealing with insecurities, and that’s definitely the only thing that stopped me from achieving my goals… or for setting them. 

2021 was definitely rough. I was feeling that I was back again in that depression of “don’t know what to do or how I’m going to do it” 

But any dream it always start with a first step, right? 

So, I had a lot of people around me that wanted to see me successful, that also believed in me (more than I actually do). 

Step by step I was trying to progress, but things where not going the way that I wanted… again I was feeling stuck. 

But I never stop aiming. 

After a hard end of 2021, I started 2022 renovated. 

I started to read this book called “The artist way” written by Julia Cameron and that book guided me to find my motivation again. My passion. 

I started to meditate every morning, I started to visualize myself doing things that I love, working doing what I love. And the most important part… I started giving love to myself. Treating myself with love and respect… and that was a whole new different situation. 

I started dancing again, my relationship with my family and with my friends improved. 

And I began to feel the love of them. That gave me strength to not giving up. 

I started dancing in music videos, performances with artist, and after that, I met the best audiovisual team in the world, 

When I was back in Argentina I used to go to college, I was studding Audiovisual Production (for the ones that don’t know that’s like how you make music videos or a movie, or a tv show) but I didn’t finished that because (as I said) I was focus on my dancing carrier. 

So, they actually gave me a chance to work with them and learn from them. This is one of the things that I’m most thankful this year. 

The best thing about this is that dancing jobs and other acting gigs never stopped in the whole year. 

There were months where job was less than others, but I literally just achieved my main goal of this year. 

Alright, so let’s dig a little deeper into the story – has it been an easy path overall, and if not, what were the challenges you’ve had to overcome?
One of the things that made me feel really bad was the relationship with my family. When I decided not to go back to Argentina when covid started they where devastated. And also, super mad at me. 

And I was mad at them for not supporting my decisions. 

I found myself with no work and with no money. 

I found myself dealing with my whole life just me, with no help. 

Living away from your family and friends and decide to start a life away from home is never easy. 

In the middle my dad got sick and he got a heart surgery. 

My mom also got sick from covid and had some breathing problems. 

My sister got married and I couldn’t make it. 

I mean… there’s a lot of things that can happen… but the ones that hurtes me the most, were the ones from them. 

Can you tell our readers more about what you do and what you think sets you apart from others?
I always loved to dance. My first love was artistic roller skating, then I went to aerial acrobatics, and after that I started taking dancing classes. 

That was a one-way trip for me. I just turned 15 when I took my first dancing class, that was exactly 10 years ago. My first dancing teacher was the one that made me love dancing, and also the first one on giving me work opportunities. 

In 2016 I started a 3-year dancing program in a studio called Pei Mei, 

I met wonderful friends and teachers there. 

Really big inspirations. 

With a friend that I made there, we decided to travel to Los Angeles to take dancing classes. WOW that trip changed my dancing carrier. I travels to LA on 2017 and 2018. 

After those trips, I started taking it seriously. Dancing in those studios that I stayed hours and hours on YouTube watching dancing classes. Magic. 

When I got back, I started dancing with a hip hop company called Alianz Squad. We had mentors, we did presentations in a lot of festivals, we danced at the Olympic Games. They taught me everything that I know about the hip hop community. We had hours of training of all different styles as Popping, locking, dancehall, afro, krump, hip hop, freestyle, how musicality works. Everything. 

I also took classes as jazz, ballet, flexibility, acrobatics, pole dancing, heels, contemporary. 

I also was working with a singer call Naomi and with her we traveled around Argentina to different parties that she played, and get to dance in Lolla Palooza (a big music festival) 

Also worked in theater doing a Michael Jackson tribute, and a comedy show. 

My main job as a dancer was teaching. I started teaching in 2017. 

And that’s one of the things that I’m more proud of. 

I had a lot of students very loyal to me. They taught me a lot. Patience, love, respect. They blow my creativity to a next level. 

And that’s where I decided to make concept videos. And that’s one of the things that people likes the most about my stuff. Because it was not just a simply choreography, it was a whole thing. Most of my videos are in my YouTube channel if t’all wanna watch them hahaha 

What’s next?
I’m not sure about this question. One thing I know for sure is that I don’t know where I’m going to be tomorrow, or either if I’m going to be alive or not. 

I have some business ideas, I would like to mix everything that I love in one thing, so I’m still creating it. 

I also want to travel a lot, that’s something that gives me peace. 

So, for now, dancing and traveling 

Contact Info:

• Instagram: https://instagram.com/martipritz?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=
• Youtube: https://youtube.com/@martipritz3374 

Image Credits
Lina Rodriguez
Catalina Garzon