Last month we took part in B.Hive Club’s “Live in the Lounge” series, talking about how ballet and the arts in general can benefit from a presence in social media channels (Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, etc.), as well as the latest that the ballet blogosphere has to offer to enrich one’s personal experience of the art [...]
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by Emilia & Linda on June 15, 2011
It’s Friday, Friday!
by Emilia & Linda on May 27, 2011
The world has dubbed it the “worst song ever”, but it has gathered more than 150 million views (and a staggering 2.9 million “dislikes”) on YouTube. It seems we all love to hate Rebecca Black‘s “Friday” and its trail of brilliant spoofs – check out Stephen Colbert’s hilarious rendition here and, our favorite, the Death [...]
Tagged as: Adult Beginner, Ballet Comic, Ballet Webcomics, Friday, Fun fun fun, Glee, Rebecca Black, Social Media, YouTube
Editorial: Happy Anniversary to Us
by Emilia & Linda on April 21, 2011
How time flies! It seems like yesterday that we kicked off The Ballet Bag (then in WordPress.com) with a totally fangirly post about Alina Cojocaru’s return to the stage in Giselle. We had no idea anyone would pay attention to our dance musings, but soon after, we started tweeting and discovered many other like-minded ballet [...]
Tagged as: 2-year anniversary, Ballet, dance, Future of Dance, Social Media, The Ballet Bag, Twitter, Wordle, YouTube
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, Frederic Ashton, 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
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
Ballet Goes Web 2.0
by Emilia on May 6, 2010
Ballet companies, choreographers, dancers, writers and bloggers are realising the importance of educating and engaging with audiences via social media to promote ballet as an art form. Through the rich and diverse ballet content on YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr and blogs we now have exposure to ballet events around the globe as if we were [...]
Tagged as: Ballet, Ballet Companies, Daniil Simkin, DeBallet, Elitedance, Facebook, Maria Kochetkova, Social Media, Tumblr, Twitter, Vimeo, Web 2.0, wefollow, Yahoo! Video, YouTube
