We’ve often said that surfers are to waves what dancers are to music (or was it the other way round?), so we were extremely interested to read, on sports & lifestyle webzine Lupita, about surf brand Quiksilver’s new project, The Water Dancer. The Water Dancer is a series of short films where Quiksilver ambassador and world champion Stephanie [...]
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Water Dancers
by Emilia & Linda on January 16, 2012
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
Ballet Rocks at Move It Show
by Emilia & Linda on March 12, 2011
The Move It show is the UK’s biggest dance event featuring live performances, dance classes, competitions, exhibition stands and interviews. The show attracts over 20,000 dance fans over three days and offers you the opportunity to create “your ideal day of dance“. Move It’s 6th edition opened yesterday in London. This year we are participating [...]
Tagged as: Ballet Rocks, Bennet Gartside, Big Sofa Interview, Blogosphere, dance, Don't Hate the Player Hate the Game, Kristen McNally, London, Move It, Move It Show 2011, Social Media, Thomas Whitehead, Twitter
Rambert Dance Company in Rehearsal – Monolith
by Emilia & Linda on February 13, 2011
Monolith, Tim Rushton’s new piece for Rambert Dance Company, represents the first time the British choreographer has collaborated with a UK dance company. Tim is the Artistic Director of the award-winning Danish Dance Theatre. As a creator of modern dance, classical technique stands out as a big influence in Tim’s work, due to his ballet [...]
Tagged as: Angela Towler, Ballet, Charlotte Østergaard, dance, Dane Hurst, Danish Dance Theatre, Eryck Brahmania, Jonathan Goddard, Mark Baldwin, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Monolith, Peteris Vasks, Photoblog, Pieter Symonds, Rambert Dance Company, Rehearsals, Royal Danish Ballet, Rui Horta, Sylvie Guillem, Tim Rushton, Val Bourne, William Forsythe
TenduTV Delivers Programming from Dutch National Ballet & Wayne McGregor | Random Dance on Itunes
by Emilia & Linda on January 21, 2011
TenduTV released earlier this week the first-ever concert dance performances on iTunes. Critically acclaimed programs like Entity from Wayne McGregor|Random Dance and the Hans van Manen Festival from Dutch National Ballet are now available for download to own and rent on iTunes in the United States and Canada. Also available is the award-winning documentary 40 [...]
Tagged as: Ballet, Bavarian State Ballet, Bayerisches Staatsballet, dance, Dance & Ballet News, Dutch National Ballet, Hans Van Manen, Hans Van Manen Festival, Ivan Kozlov, Lucia Lacarra, Mariinsky, Netherlands Dance Theater, Random Dance, Royal Winnipeg Ballet, Ulyana Lopatkina, Wayne McGregor
Cult Blog Post of the Week
by Emilia & Linda on July 5, 2010
Is print journalism dead? Where is dance writing headed? In twenty years from now, who will we honor for their words about dance? In an article entitled “A Step to the Left, a Jump to the Write” My Two Left Feet brainstorms about the future of dance criticism: Everyone seems to agree that dance writing [...]
Tagged as: audiences, criticism, Cult Blog Post, dance, dance criticism, dance writing
