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 [...]
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Ballet Meets Pop
by Emilia & Linda on November 10, 2010
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
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
