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Ashley Bouder

Cult Blog Post of the Week

by Emilia & Linda on May 30, 2010

Our pick this week is Oberon’s Grove account of Ashley Bouder’s revelatory performance in Donizetti Variations, followed by equally powerful dancing from four other NYCB principals in Stravinsky Violin Concerto:

The audience were clearly bedazzled by Ashley’s prodigious pirouettes, flashing jumps and the fiorature of her footwork, calling the ballerina and her dashing cavalier [...]

Tagged as: Ashley Bouder, Balanchine, Cult Blog Post, Donizetti Variations, NYCB, Oberon's Grove, Robert Fairchild, Sterling Hyltin, Stravinsky Violin Concerto

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

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 in [...]

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

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 & play [...]

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