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Opinion

Tell Me What You See

by Linda on September 5, 2010

The task of reporting the news has, for better or for worse, spread far beyond standard media. From Michael Jackson’s death to yesterday’s headlines, sharing the news is now the work of an online global community. Phones, computers and gadgets are propagating information in real time and the internet is overloaded with individual opinions on [...]

Tagged as: Alastair Macaulay, Apollinaire Scherr, Bloggers, Clement Crisp, dance criticism, Facebook, FT, iPad, Ismene Brown, New York Times, Online Media, Pulitzer Prize, Roslyn Sulcas, Sanjoy Roy, Sarah Kaufman, Social Media, The Arts Desk, The Guardian, Tobi Tobias, Twitter, Washington Post, YouTube

Time Has Told Me: Reconstructing Ballet

by Linda on August 27, 2010

Last month I attended the opening night of Laurencia by the Mikhailovsky Ballet. This Chabukiani ballet, very popular with audiences in the Soviet era and a vehicle for Russian virtuoso performers, had been dropped out of repertory somewhere around the seventies. For a while all that was left of it were selected extracts performed in [...]

Tagged as: Alexei Ratmansky, Bolshoi, Chabukiani, Doug Fullington, Laurencia, Le Corsaire, Le Reveil de Flore, Lev Ivanov, Mariinsky, Mikhail Messerer, Mikhailovsky Ballet, Pacific Northwest Ballet, Paquita, Petipa, Pierre Lacotte, Roland John Wiley, Sergei Vikharev, Sergeyev Collection, Sir Peter Wright, Stepanov Notation, The Nutcracker, The Pharaoh's Daughter, The Sleeping Beauty, Valeri Gergiev, Vladimir Stepanov, Yuri Burlaka

Fun That We Have

by Emilia on March 12, 2010

Over the past few weeks the big ballet companies have been all over social media flaunting their new seasons, in some cases with fabulous, state of the art, trailers (like San Francisco Ballet and Dutch National Ballet). Hot on their heels and conspicuously earlier comes The Royal Opera House: their next ballet and opera season is [...]

Tagged as: Alice in Wonderland, Balanchine, Des Grieux, DGV, Edward Watson, Giselle, Johan Kobborg, Kim Brandstrup, La Valse, Lensky, Manon, Mara Galeazzi, Marianela Nuñez, Myrtha, Odette, Olga, Onegin, Rhapsody, Rite of Spring, Royal Ballet, Rupert Pennefather, Sarah Lamb, Scénes de Ballet, Season 2010-2011, Sensorium, Steven McRae, Still Life at the Penguin Cafe, Swan Lake, Tamara Rojo, Tatiana, Theme & Variations, Voluntaries, Wayne McGregor, Wheeldon, Winter Dreams

Cornerstone

by Linda on January 20, 2010

In the last two years Twitter has widely grown in popularity. Even though it has been labeled a fad like other social networking sites (Facebook, MySpace, Bebo, etc.), it continues to flourish and establish itself as one of the most effective and versatile social media channels. Twitter can be used as a tool for staying [...]

Tagged as: Arts, Ashley Bouder, Ballet Black, Ballet Companies, Ballet Newbie, Bennet Gartside, Boston Ballet, BRB, Dance Magazines, Dancers, Daniil Simkin, Dutch National Ballet, Evan McKie, Facebook, Madison Keesler, Maria Kochetkova, Mariinsky, Marijn Rademaker, Miami City Ballet, NYCB, Opinion, Pennsylvania Ballet, PNB, Royal Opera House, San Francisco Ballet, Scottish Ballet, Social Media, Twitter

Kool Thing

by Emilia on December 30, 2009

As we prepare to send off 2009 and embrace a new decade, we look back into what was hot, fun & fab around the ballet blogosphere to pick our favorite things this year. Feel free to share yours too. Favorite Blog Posts Haglund Heel’s “ABT needs a Mayerling” campaign The coolest ballet campaign of the [...]

Tagged as: 2009, ABT, Bella Figura, BRB, Charlotte MacMillan, Clement Crisp, Crankocast, Daniil Simkin, David Bintley, Demicontretemps, E=mc2, Edward Watson, Eric Taub, Evan McKie, Facebook, Haglund's Heel, Hedi Slimane, Igor Kolb, Ketinoa, Mara Galeazzi, Marcelo Gomes, Mariinsky, Matthias Sarsgaard, Mayerling, Oscar Nielssen, Ratmansky, Royal Danish Ballet, Sanjoy Roy, Social Media, Stuttgart Ballet, Swan Lake Samba Girl, The Arts Desk, The Guardian, The Little Humpbacked Horse, Tonya Planck, Twitter, Veronica Part, You Dance Funny

All I Want for Christmas

by Emilia on December 19, 2009

Dear Santa, We know we had a lucky year with many wonderful ballet tickets filling our bags. We had a great time writing over here and making plenty of new friends on Twitter and Facebook some of whom we had the pleasure of meeting in person. Having managed to strike a good balance between work [...]

Tagged as: ABT, Alexei Ratmansky, Ashley Bouder, Chanel, Dances at a Gathering, Diana Vishneva, Ekaterina Osmolkina, Evgenia Obraztsova, La Sylphide, Marcelo Gomes, Mariinsky, NYCB, Onegin, Primrose Bakery, Rodarte, Royal Ballet, Social Media, Song of the Earth, Steven McRae, Swan Lake, The Little Humpbacked Horse, The Sleeping Beauty, Yevgenia Obraztsova, Yvonne Borree