by MetteWindberg on January 4, 2013
Ballet and popular culture have been enjoying an unusually close relationship in recent times. Following on the success of Natalie Portman’s highly neurotic and nail-biting ballerina in Darren Aronofsky’s Black Swan, shows like Breaking Pointe and The Secret Lives of Dancers portray daily life at, respectively, Salt Lake City’s Ballet West and The Royal New Zealand [...]
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Darren Aronofsky,
Gangnam Style,
Hans Christian Andersen,
Jesus Losada Albadia,
Kingdom of Sweets,
Nutcracker,
Peter Bo Bendixen,
RDB,
Selene Muñoz,
Tchaikovsky,
Tivoli
by Emilia & Linda on December 5, 2011
by Emilia & Linda on December 1, 2010
Ballet.co and The Ballet Bag have teamed up with EMI Classics to offer you the chance to win a copy of Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker, recorded by Sir Simon Rattle and the Berliner Philharmoniker. This release marks the conductor’s first Tchaikovsky recording and is one of several releases this season celebrating Rattle’s 30th anniversary on the [...]
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The Nutcracker,
Twitter
by Emilia & Linda on September 27, 2010
We are pleased to announce the first ever Ballet.co & The Ballet Bag Twitter Competition: Royal Ballet Yearbook 2010/11 Competition Oberon Books’ Royal Ballet Yearbook has just been released and we are giving away a free copy Entering the competition To enter followers have to tweet the answer to the following question under the tag [...]
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by Emilia & Linda on August 9, 2010
We were recently featured in Time Out London (issue No. 2085) where they report on the best blogs and social media channels for ballet. Time Out interviewed us and said we are: “a chic webzine” & “best of the new bunch” of sites dedicated to dance. Check it out! (Click on the image for higher [...]