This evening we had the honour of taking over the @RoyalOperaHouse feed as their first ever Twitter guests. Early bird reviews for Wheeldon’s Alice in Wonderland are already starting to pop up (read the Indy’s here & Guardian’s here) while over here we have red carpet and backstage goodies from tonight’s gala coming up. As [...]
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#AliceinTwitterland: Live tweeting from the World Premiere
by Emilia & Linda on March 1, 2011
#Lessambitiousballets
by Emilia on January 20, 2011
Hot on the heels of recent Twitter memes like #lessambitiousfilms and #lessambitiousoperas, members of the online dance community revealed their inner ballet nerds earlier this month, joining in the meme fun. Many of us spent hours not doing any work, thinking instead of #lessambitiousballets. A few of you asked us to collate these tweets for [...]
Tagged as: #lessambitiousballets, Alice in Wonderland, Ballet, Ballet & Pop Culture, Dances at a Gathering, DGV, In the Middle Somewhat Elevated, Jewels, Meme, Raymonda, Romeo and Juliet, Social Media, Spoof, Swan Lake, The Dying Swan, The Four Temperaments, The Prodigal Son, The Sleeping Beauty, Twitter, Twitter Trends
Editorial: Happy New Year & Reader Survey
by Emilia on January 6, 2011
Happy New Year everyone! Before Linda and I get swamped again it’s time to get philosophical. Our year in dance was metaphorically bookended by two very different ballet movies; two opposites in mood: we started 2010 writing about Only When I Dance, a heartwarming documentary about two Brazilian favela dwellers overcoming obstacles to pursue a [...]
Tagged as: 2011, Alastair Macaulay, Alexei Ratmansky, Ashton, Ballet Bag Elsewhere, Ballet Companies, Ballet Movies, Ballet Newbie, Ballet on film, Black Swan, Cinderella, Darren Aronofsky, Editorial, Facebook, Going to the Ballet, Jennifer Homans, Move It Show 2011, Only When I Dance, Opinion, Reader Poll, Royal Ballet, Social Media, The Ballet Bag, Twitter
Ballet in Peril: A Conversation With Jennifer Homans
by Emilia & Linda on December 23, 2010
Is ballet ready for its close-up? Is it indeed bursting with vitality; the art form to watch in 2011? We reach the end of 2010 with mixed messages. On one hand, some positive signs: NYCB’s Architecture of Dance Festival and its seven premieres (four of which “narrative” ballets), Alexei Ratmansky’s new works for ABT and [...]
Tagged as: Alexei Ratmansky, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Antony Tudor, Apollo's Angels, Architecture of Dance, Ashton, Balanchine, Ballet Books, Ballet History, Black Swan, Christopher Wheeldon, Darren Aronofsky, Frederick Wiseman, French Ballet, History of Ballet, History of Dance, Jennifer Homans, Jerome Robbins, John Neumeier, Kenneth MacMillan, Kristen McNally, La Danse, Natalie Portman, NYCB, Opera, Russian Ballet, Social Media, Twitter, William Forsythe, YouTube
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
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
