“Move over, Natalie Portman: You may be favored for the Oscar in Black Swan, but there’s a real-life, flesh-and-blood ballerina generating heat as the swan queen!” says Jocelyn Novek, one of the writers quoted by Milan-based arts blogger Graham Spicer in a roundup of praise for the remarkable Odette/Odile of Sara Mearns. NYCB’s Mearns is [...]
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Hail to the Swan Queens – Odettes & Odiles Around the World
by Emilia & Linda on February 18, 2011
Sylvia
by Emilia on November 24, 2010
Is this ballet for you? Go if/Skip if: Whether you should see Sylvia or not heavily depends on which version you are looking at. If you’re a “ballet newbie” we’d recommend you skip the Ashton version for the reasons explained in our recent review. We hope the notes below can help you decide which version [...]
Tagged as: Alexander Grant, Aminta, Arcadia, Ashton, Aurélie Dupont, Baron de Reinach, Bill Cooper, Bintley, BRB, David Bintley, David Makhateli, diana, eros, full-length, Gillian Murphy, Hamburg Ballet, John Hart, John Neumeier, Jules Barbier, Lauren Cuthbertson, Leo Delibes, Light & Fluffy, Manuel Legris, Margot Fonteyn, Mark Morris, Michael Somes, Orion, Palais Garnier, Paris Opera Ballet, Pizzicati, Pizzicato, POB, Polina Semionova, Royal Ballet, San Francisco Ballet, Sergei Polunin, Sylvia, Tchaikovsky, Torquato Tasso, Yannis Kokkos, Zenaida Yanowsky
Ballet Meets Pop
by Emilia & Linda on November 10, 2010
Last month Kanye West made the headlines in entertainment news for featuring ballet in his new epic music video/short film Runaway. In interviews West cited his love of classical dance as main motivation, while MTV has also pointed out the links between the video’s bird-like girl and Swan Lake. In a new guest post for [...]
Tagged as: Bolshoi, Chroma, Dance Pulp, Guest Blog Post, Kanye West, Lady Gaga, National Ballet of Canada, Polina Semionova, Rihanna, San Francisco Ballet, SFB, Swan Lake, The Shins, The White Stripes, Wayne McGregor
Best of You: Part Deux
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 [...]
Tagged as: Ask Colin, Australian Ballet, Behind Ballet, Blogs, BRB, City Brights, Davit Karapetyan, Dusty Button, J Pointe, MCB, Miami City Ballet, Open Studio 455, Ricardo Bustamante, San Francisco Ballet, SFB, Social Media, The Joffrey, Tokyo Ballet, Touring Blog, Vanessa Zahorian, Yuko Tanaka
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 [...]
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The Nutcracker
by Emilia on November 24, 2009
Is this ballet for you? Go if: you want to treat your kids, godchildren, nieces and nephews or even perhaps the kid in you. Skip if: Bah humbug! Dream Cast Sugar Plum Fairy: any ballerina who can do proper gargouillades Background The Nutcracker is a major example of a balletic twist of fate. The very [...]
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