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Evan McKie

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 [...]


Slideshow: Best of the Ballet Bag’s Interviews

by Emilia & Linda on December 16, 2010

In the spirit of reflecting on the past and catching our breath to prepare for whatever 2011 may throw at us, we hope you enjoy this slideshow with selected quotes from our interviewees over the last 18 months. (click on each photo to open corresponding full feature) SlideShowPro({ attributes: { id: “album-224386″, width: 600, height: [...]


Stages On Life’s Way: An Interview With Evan McKie

by Emilia & Linda on October 30, 2010

Anyone who follows Canadian-born Stuttgart Ballet Principal Evan McKie on Twitter will know him as an eclectic and upbeat social media presence: he digs from Kierkegaard to Philip Roth, from Lady Gaga to Esa-Pekka Salonen. Besides connecting with ballet audiences worldwide, Evan juggles his busy dancing career with various side projects like freelance writing (for [...]


Ballet Manga!

by Emilia & Linda on July 16, 2010

Although Vancouver Opera has recently developed and published an excellent series of Opera Manga, in the West the concept of opera and ballet in comic books still sounds very niche. But in Japan, Ballet Manga is very much part of the cultural mainstream. Publications like Kyoko Ariyoshi’s “Swan” or Ryoko Yamagishi’s “Arabesque” have been around [...]


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 [...]


Kool Thing

by Emilia on December 30, 2009

As we prepare to send off 2009 and embrace a new decade, we look back into what was hot, fun & fab around the ballet blogosphere to pick our favorite things this year. Feel free to share yours too. Favorite Blog Posts Haglund Heel’s “ABT needs a Mayerling” campaign The coolest ballet campaign of the [...]


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