In addition to boosting their presence on social media channels like Facebook and Twitter, leading ballet companies have also taken to blogging regularly. Company blogs have radically changed the face of communication within the arts sector. Before them organisations were more dependent on regular media/art pages to pick up on their stories but now they [...]
From the category archives:
Social Media
Best of You: Part Deux
by Emilia on June 24, 2010
Ballet Goes Web 2.0
by Emilia on May 6, 2010
Ballet companies, choreographers, dancers, writers and bloggers are realising the importance of educating and engaging with audiences via social media to promote ballet as an art form. Through the rich and diverse ballet content on YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr and blogs we now have exposure to ballet events around the globe as if we were [...]
Tagged as: Ballet, Ballet Companies, Daniil Simkin, DeBallet, Elitedance, Facebook, Maria Kochetkova, Social Media, Tumblr, Twitter, Vimeo, Web 2.0, wefollow, Yahoo! Video, YouTube
The One With Ballet Silkscreen Posters
by Emilia on April 24, 2010
If you have followed The Ballet Bag for a while then you already know we love juxtaposing pop culture and ballet and looking at this art form through younger, fresher eyes. You also probably know most of our post titles are taken from rock songs (well if you didn’t, now you do).
We love indie rock [...]
Tagged as: 1-year bday, Ballet-Mad Libs, Gigposter, Promotion, Social Media, Studio Luma, The Ballet Bag
Best of You
by Emilia on April 21, 2010
Spotlight on Five Different Dance Blogs
Blogs are a simple and effective way to communicate. Everyone can have one and there are many user friendly blogging platforms out there (Blogger, TypePad, Tumblr, Wordpress, etc.). Of course they vary in quality and scope, but blogs have become an important tool for the ever-growing online dance community. Dancers, [...]
Tagged as: Boston Ballet, Carling Talcott, Dance Advantage, Dancerstyle, David Amzallag, Georgina Harper, Kristen McNally, Meg Ferguson, RDB, Royal Danish Ballet, TAD, Thin and Dizzy, Why Dance Matters
The One With the Ballet-Mad Libs
by Linda on April 20, 2010
Help us celebrate The Ballet Bag’s 1st Birthday!
The image on the left is another little teaser (see also this earlier snapshot) of our limited edition, gigposter-inspired, silkscreen art specially commissioned to celebrate our one year Birthday. As you can see here we’ve been busy mixing the colours and we rather like that acid [...]
Tagged as: 1-year anniversary, Ballet, Ballet-Mad Libs, Ballet-Mad Libs Hall of Fame, Gigposter, Poster, Promotion, Social Media
My Propeller
by Emilia on March 31, 2010
It’s been over 6 months since we wrote a post about how social media had the potential to “turn the ballet microcosm into an universe”, to make it expand beyond its captive audience and hopefully reach out to those who still believe ballet is old fashioned and all about girls in tutus & tiaras; men [...]
Tagged as: ABT, Ashley Bouder, Ballet Newbie, Christopher McDaniel, Daniil Simkin, Devin Alberda, Facebook, Gia Kourlas, Ismene Brown, Kathryn Morgan, Maria Kochetkova, New York Times, NYCB, RDB, SFB, Slate, Social Media, Twitter, Web 2.0
