by Emilia & Linda on September 30, 2010
We recently wrote a guest post for the fab crew at Dance Pulp on social media marketing and dance, including tips for maintaining an effective online presence: A few months ago ballet and Twitter appeared together in the same front page article in the New York Times. Entitled ‘Ballet Stars Now Tweet as Well as Flutter‘ and [...]
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Facebook,
Gia Kourlas,
Guest Blog Post,
Social Media,
Twitter
by Emilia & Linda on September 27, 2010
We are pleased to announce the first ever Ballet.co & The Ballet Bag Twitter Competition: Royal Ballet Yearbook 2010/11 Competition Oberon Books’ Royal Ballet Yearbook has just been released and we are giving away a free copy Entering the competition To enter followers have to tweet the answer to the following question under the tag [...]
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Social Media,
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by Emilia & Linda on September 24, 2010
Earlier this week we attended a preview of Diaghilev and the Golden Age of the Ballets Russes, 1909 – 1929, a must see exhibition that opens tomorrow at the Victoria & Albert Museum. The exhibition captures the glamour and excitement of a revolutionary age in ballet, showing Sergei Diaghilev’s genius; his ambition and determination to [...]
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Georges Braque,
Georges Rouault,
Henri Matisse,
Jean Cocteau,
Léon Bakst,
Léonide Massine,
Le Bal,
Le Spectre de la Rose,
Le Train Bleu,
Les Papillons,
Lydia Lopokova,
Marie Rambert,
Massine,
Natalia Goncharova,
Nijinska,
Nijinsksy,
Picasso,
Prokofiev,
Salome,
Serge Sudeikin,
Stravinsky,
Tamara Karsavina,
The Rite of Spring,
V&A,
Yves Saint Laurent
by Emilia & Linda on September 21, 2010
Rambert founder Marie Rambert was heavily influenced by the time she spent with the Ballets Russes and, in particular, by Diaghilev’s spirit of collaboration between choreographers, composers and artists. Back in the UK she had the idea to form a troupe that would become one of Britain’s leading contemporary dance companies. With the Royal Ballet [...]
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Aletta Collins,
Angela Towler,
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Caroline Hagley,
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Dr. Oliver Sacks,
Jonathan Goddard,
L-Dopa,
Malgorzata Dzierzon,
Mark Baldwin,
Miriam Buether,
Modern Dance,
Paul Hoskins,
Pieter Symonds,
Rambert Dance Company,
Robin Gladwin,
Tobias Picker
by Linda on September 17, 2010
Is this ballet for you? Go If: You like story ballets with grand designs and plenty of pashmina Pas de Deux. You have read and wept through “unhappily ever after” novels like Anna Karenina, Gone with the Wind and well… Onegin. Skip if: You are expecting to hear the famous score from Tchaikovsky’s opera Eugene [...]
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Alina Cojocaru,
Ana Cardus,
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Egon Madsen,
Elizabeth Dalton,
Eugene Onegin,
Francesca Da Rimini,
full-length,
Jürgen Rose,
Johan Kobborg,
John Cranko,
Kenneth MacMillan,
Kurt-Heinz Stolze,
Lensky,
Marcia Haydée,
Narrative Ballet,
Olga,
Onegin,
Ray Barra,
Sadler's Wells Ballet,
Stuttgart Ballet,
Tatiana,
Tchaikovsky
by Emilia & Linda on September 13, 2010
Our friends & collaborators at Sojournposse invite us to reflect on the healing power of the arts. For editor Zarina Holmes an art performance has the power to abduct minds, play with the senses and spur us into action. But in order to create objects of aesthetics that heal, we must first take pleasure in [...]
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