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The Future of Dance Criticism

by Guest on November 1, 2011

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 [...]

Tagged as: criticism, Critics, dance criticism, Facebook, Fantastic Beast, Ismene Brown, Jann Parry, Michael Clark, Online Media, Rian, Social Media, Some Like it Hip Hop, Technology, The Arts Desk, Twitter, Web 2.0

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

Fell in Love with a Girl

by Emilia on July 23, 2010

Reconstruction is the new black in London’s ballet summer season. The Mikhailovsky brought us earlier this week Mikhail Messerer‘s charming restoration of thirties success Laurencia (more on that later) and now the Bolshoi follows their opener Spartacus with something, in my opinion, far more interesting and entertaining: Sergei Vikharev’s reconstruction of the Petipa/Cecchetti original St. [...]

Tagged as: Anna Leonova, Ballet Comedy, Bolshoi, Coppélia, Dr. Coppelius, Ekaterina Krysanova, Franz, Gennady Yanin, Ismene Brown, Laurencia, Light & Fluffy, Mariinsky, Mikhail Messerer, Natalia Osipova, Nikolas Sergeyev, Reconstruction, Ruslan Skvortsov, Sergei Vikharev, Swanilda

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 [...]

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Amazing Journey

by Linda on November 12, 2009

As long as there are choreographers like Alexei Ratmansky around our hopes for the future of classical ballet as an art form are renewed. Now one of the world’s most sought-after choreographers, Ratmansky started his career as a ballet dancer with the Kiev Ballet in the Ukraine. Dancing soon took him out of Eastern Europe [...]

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A Man For All Seasons

by Emilia on October 19, 2009

First of all, I am a great charlatan, although one of brilliance; second, I’m a great charmer; third, I’ve great nerve; fourth I’m a man with a great deal of logic and few principles; and fifth, I think I lack talent; but if you like, I think I’ve found my real calling — patronage of [...]

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