European summer is almost over (although here in Britain it never really began) and ballet companies around the world are getting ready to kick off their new seasons. The Royal Ballet is set to return to Covent Garden in a few weeks with Balanchine’s Jewels. Taking inspiration from one of our favorite magazines, Wired, we [...]
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Social Media
The Royal Ballet 2011-2012 Season at a Glance
by Emilia & Linda on September 1, 2011
Sébastien Galtier: Beautiful Friends
by Emilia & Linda on June 22, 2011
Stuttgart Ballet’s Sébastien Galtier started to take ballet pictures about four years ago as a hobby. He soon realised he could cross over photography with other media he liked, more specifically fashion and the visual arts. That allowed him to give a different context to his dance photos, taking well-known ballet characters into shots staged [...]
Tagged as: Alexander Jones, Alicia Amatriain, Ballet Photo, Ballet Photography, David Moore, Elizabeth Mason, Evan McKie, Friedemann Vogel, Julia Krämer, Katja Wünsche, Lady of the Camellias, Laura O'Malley, Marcia Haydée, Marguerite, Marijn Rademaker, Neumeier, Odette, Onegin, Photography, Sébastien Gaultier, Stuttgart Ballet, Sue Jin Kang, Swan Lake
Social Media and the Arts
by Emilia & Linda on June 15, 2011
Last month we took part in B.Hive Club’s “Live in the Lounge” series, talking about how ballet and the arts in general can benefit from a presence in social media channels (Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, etc.), as well as the latest that the ballet blogosphere has to offer to enrich one’s personal experience of the art [...]
Tagged as: Alice in Twitterland, Arts appreciation, Arts Organizations, Ballet, Facebook, Social Media, Such Tweet Sorrow, Twitter, Twitter Opera, YouTube
The Ballet Bag Talks Social Media & the Arts at B-Hive
by Emilia & Linda on May 25, 2011
If you are in town next Tuesday 31 May, we would love to see you at B.Hive Club, in Covent Garden. As part of their “Live in the Lounge” series, we will be talking social media & ballet from 1pm to 2pm. We are planning a very informal session, with plenty of time to network [...]
Tagged as: Arts, B.Hive, dance companies, dance criticism, Facebook, live tweeting, networking, Social Media, talks, The Ballet Bag, Twitter
Editorial: Happy Anniversary to Us
by Emilia & Linda on April 21, 2011
How time flies! It seems like yesterday that we kicked off The Ballet Bag (then in WordPress.com) with a totally fangirly post about Alina Cojocaru’s return to the stage in Giselle. We had no idea anyone would pay attention to our dance musings, but soon after, we started tweeting and discovered many other like-minded ballet [...]
Tagged as: 2-year anniversary, Ballet, dance, Future of Dance, Social Media, The Ballet Bag, Twitter, Wordle, YouTube
10 Reasons Why We Love Manon
by Emilia on April 16, 2011
A big helping of MacMillan is finally coming our way after a very Ashton-heavy season. Manon, one of his most famous full-length ballets, opens at Covent Garden on Thursday for a run of 15 performances and is to return during the autumn season. Having shortlisted it as one of our new season favorites we were [...]
Tagged as: 10 Reasons, Anthony Dowell, Costumes, Des Grieux, Dramatic & Intense, full-length, MacMillan, Manon, Marcelo Gomes, Nicholas Georgiadis, Royal Ballet, Social Media
