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!).

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…

Promotions December 23, 2015

Bag Some Gaynors for Christmas

By Emilia & Linda

With Alexei Ratmansky’s lush new Sleeping Beauty for ABT, a compelling homage to the works of Virginia Woolf brought by Wayne McGregor to the Royal Ballet,…