by Emilia & Linda on January 8, 2011
Earlier this week we followed with interest the online reaction to The Guardian piece entitled “What Britain’s ballet stars made of Black Swan”. Objecting to the dancers’ more literal and nitpicky approach to Aronofksy’s movie, commenters responded with such remarks as “Watching Black Swan for the ballet seems to me like watching South Park: The Movie for the Christian theology” and [...]
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by Emilia on June 24, 2010
In addition to boosting their presence on social media channels like Facebook and Twitter, leading ballet companies have also taken to blogging regularly. Company blogs have radically changed the face of communication within the arts sector. Before them organisations were more dependent on regular media/art pages to pick up on their stories but now they [...]
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The Balanchine method is not a syllabus for training per se, but the term is generally applied to describe the way of teaching dancers at the School of American Ballet (the school associated with the New York City Ballet), preparing them for the specific requirements of the Balanchine repertoire with its focus on very quick [...]
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