Emilia & Linda

We started The Ballet Bag in April 2009 with the mission to prove that ballet is not stuffy, old fashioned and inaccessible; that it is quite the opposite: relevant, fresh and topical. With the aim to Give Ballet a New Spin we try to show it under a different light. When writing our capsule biographies, ballet fact cards, review roundups and commentary on social media, we cross it over with other art forms and cultural references (pop culture, cinema, rock music – ie. other things we love!).

Yorke Dance Project in Kenneth MacMillan’s Sea of Troubles

Rehearsals October 17, 2016

Yorke Dance Project: a Photo Gallery

By Emilia & Linda

Yorke Dance Project is a contemporary ballet company of 8 dancers under the artistic direction of Yolande Yorke-Edgell, and patronage of choreographer Richard Alston. Now in its 5th season,…

Ballet Around the World, Ballet Companies September 16, 2016

A Summer of Dance to Remember

By Emilia & Linda

Warm summer evenings are starting to come to an end in London (if only we could have temperatures in the twenties all year round…)….

Ty King-Wall and Amber Scott in Ratmansky's Cinderella

Ballet, Ballet Around the World, Rehearsals, Review July 22, 2016

Five Reasons to Catch The Australian Ballet in London

By Emilia & Linda

The Royal Ballet and ENB may be on a break, but summer ballet season has just started over here, with The Australian Ballet’s return to…