In a recent article for the NY Times entitled “Exchanging Slippers For Schoolbooks” Gia Kourlas looked at the motivations of dancers – active and inactive – to further their studies, particularly in the context of the increased attendance at undergraduate courses for “nontraditional students” offered by Columbia University. One of the student-dancers mentioned by Kourlas [...]
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ABT’s Pua Brown: On Returning to Ballet
by Emilia & Linda on December 10, 2010
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
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
