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 [...]
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Tell Me What You See
by Linda on September 5, 2010
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
An Interview with Daniil Simkin
by Emilia on November 9, 2009
If you follow dance on the internet chances are you will have heard of Daniil Simkin. He is the whiz kid (not just dance-wise but also tech-wise) who arrived last year from Vienna State Opera to stir some fresh buzz into American Ballet Theatre’s soloist ranks. His virtuoso dancing and various gala appearances, including the [...]
Tagged as: ABT, Alina Cojocaru, Ashton, Aszure Barton, Athens Ballet Gala, Avery Hall, Benjamin Millepied, Brahms Hayden Variations, Company B, Cyril Pierre, Daniil Simkin, Daria Klimentová, David Makhateli, Dragos Mihalcea, Everything doesn't happen at Once, Facebook, Fancy Free, Frederick Ashton, Intensio, Irina Kolesnikova, Jerome Robbins, Kevin McKenzie, Lucia Lacarra, Maria Kochetkova, Marie Lindqvist, MySpace, One is Three, Paul Taylor, San Francisco Ballet, Semyon Chudin, The Dream, Twitter, Twyla Sharp, Vienna State Opera, World Ballet Festival, YouTube
Grace
by Emilia on September 7, 2009
From the moment Marie Taglioni put on her ballet shoes and stood on pointe the cult of the ballerina took flight. The ballerina, the female expert in the art of ballet who lives and suffers for her art, is forever associated with intrinsic qualities of lightness and grace. But just like Mr. Darcy’s remarks on [...]
Tagged as: Acis & Galatea, Alina Cojocaru, Alina Somova, Anthony Dowell, Ashton, Balanchine, Ballet Line, Ballet Newbie, Bluebird, Cinderella, Des Grieux, Edward Watson, Extensions, Gelsey Kirkland, Giselle, Händel, Maria Taglioni, Mariinsky, Merce Cunningham, Musicality, Port de Bras, Princess Florine, Robert Greskovic, Sarah Lamb, Spessivtseva, Suzanne Farrell, Swan Lake, The Little Humpbacked Horse, The Sleeping Beauty, Ulyana Lopatkina, Viktoria Tereshkina, YouTube
Bridge Over Troubled Water
by Linda on September 2, 2009
We are lucky to be part of a group of people who can regularly attend ballet performances and who are exposed to a wide repertoire and various choreographers, but a huge percentage of dance fans around the globe are unable to do so, either because their location limits access to local or visiting ballet companies [...]
Tagged as: Ashton, Balanchine, Balanchine Trust, BBC, BBC4, Bolshoi, Copyright Law, Kenneth MacMillan, Mariinsky, New Media, Opinion, Royal Ballet, Vaganova Academy, YouTube
Virtually There
by Emilia on July 20, 2009
In 1973 the Royal Ballet went on a historical tour to Brazil bringing 110 dancers including its star Margot Fonteyn to 85,000 people across the country. It was that year’s cultural highlight with tales of roaring audiences and of dancers who would not dare step onstage until Fonteyn’s reassurances that crowd commotions were entirely normal [...]
Tagged as: ABT, Bolshoi, Facebook, La Scala, Mariinsky, NYCB, OBT, Opinion, POB, Royal Ballet, Royal Danish Ballet, Twitter, YouTube
