Last year, in this post on the future of dance criticism, we wrote about the need for critics to embrace web 2.0 and social media, to engage with the online dance community and attract new readers. Among examples of writers who are using these new channels, we mentioned leading UK dance critic Ismene Brown and [...]
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The Future of Dance Criticism
by Guest on November 1, 2011
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 New Year & Reader Survey
by Emilia on January 6, 2011
Happy New Year everyone! Before Linda and I get swamped again it’s time to get philosophical. Our year in dance was metaphorically bookended by two very different ballet movies; two opposites in mood: we started 2010 writing about Only When I Dance, a heartwarming documentary about two Brazilian favela dwellers overcoming obstacles to pursue a [...]
Tagged as: 2011, Alastair Macaulay, Alexei Ratmansky, Ashton, Ballet Bag Elsewhere, Ballet Companies, Ballet Movies, Ballet Newbie, Ballet on film, Black Swan, Cinderella, Darren Aronofsky, Editorial, Facebook, Going to the Ballet, Jennifer Homans, Move It Show 2011, Only When I Dance, Opinion, Reader Poll, Royal Ballet, Social Media, The Ballet Bag, Twitter
Social Dancing
by Emilia & Linda on September 30, 2010
We recently wrote a guest post for the fab crew at Dance Pulp on social media marketing and dance, including tips for maintaining an effective online presence: A few months ago ballet and Twitter appeared together in the same front page article in the New York Times. Entitled ‘Ballet Stars Now Tweet as Well as Flutter‘ and [...]
Tagged as: ABT, Ashley Bouder, Ballet, Dance Pulp, Daniil Simkin, Facebook, Gia Kourlas, Guest Blog Post, Social Media, Twitter
Tell Me What You See
by Linda on September 5, 2010
The task of reporting the news has, for better or for worse, spread far beyond standard media. From Michael Jackson’s death to yesterday’s headlines, sharing the news is now the work of an online global community. Phones, computers and gadgets are propagating information in real time and the internet is overloaded with individual opinions on [...]
Tagged as: Alastair Macaulay, Apollinaire Scherr, Bloggers, Clement Crisp, dance criticism, Facebook, FT, iPad, Ismene Brown, New York Times, Online Media, Pulitzer Prize, Roslyn Sulcas, Sanjoy Roy, Sarah Kaufman, Social Media, The Arts Desk, The Guardian, Tobi Tobias, Twitter, Washington Post, YouTube
