The Ballet Bag (www.theballetbag.com) The Ballet bag is a prominent blog that talks about ballet in a new fresh way. The ballet bag connects with real professional dancers in the industry such as Stephen Mcrae of the Royal Ballet and Xander Parish of the Mariinsky Ballet Theatre to get the inside scoop on the professional ballet world through various interviews and Q&A based articles. The blog is ran by Emilia and Linda who started the blog back in 2009 to give their prospective of the beauty of ballet as alumni and spectators. The blog also caters to people who aren’t aware and have little knowledge on ballet with a section in their blog called Ballet Newbie that gives tips on new dancers and spectators and gives a direction of where to get started. The ballet blog has received acclaim from the popular Vanity Fair magazine, The Wall Street Journal, and Independent and is continuously used as a source when talking about topics in modern day ballet.
For Ballet Lovers Only (www.for-ballet-lovers-only.com) For Ballet Lovers Only is everything ballet that you can imagine. It uses a collection of Marc Haegeman’s personal ballet writings and photography and also multiple interviews from dance legends such as Svetlana Zahkarova who us a Principal Dancer of the prominent Bolshoi Ballet and Altynai Asylmuratova who is the Artistic Director of the world renowned school for ballet, Vaganova Ballet Academy. Haegeman’s uses a collection of his credits, such as articles in Dancing times and Dance2000 and presents them on his blogs to use as resources and connect with everyday ballet topics.
The Ballet Blog (www.theballetblog.com) The ballet blog is triggered towards dancer who are interested industry and the daily perks and struggles of being a dancer. The blog covers topics such as injuries, ways to improve techinique, and rehabilitation of dancers. The blog is run by Lisa Howell who specializes in dance physiotherapy and is one of the top dance medicine specialists in Australia. Lisa has every began her own practice called Perfect Form Physiotherapy that educates ballet dancers on how to remain healthy and prevent injury from dance. The blog also discusses issue in the dance world such as are dancers paid enough and movie reviews for ballet films such as “First Position”
Seeing Things (http://www.artsjournal.com/tobias/) Seeing things is a blog that is triggered to seeing things inside and out of the ballet world to better understand the what’s and why’s of ballet performances. The blog is ran by the Tobi Tobias who is famous for her years of dance critics in the Bloomberg, and it give a different side to her writing that she has present in the past. The blog is linked off of one of the biggest sources of arts articles online, The Arts Journal. It investigates primarily the New York City Ballet, the dancers, and the choreography and what ties them all together.
Heather Dance (www.heatherdance.com) Heather dance is a blog that critics dance from various companies that are based in the San Francisco bay area. The blog brings up smaller companies such as CounterPULSE and Kate Weare Dance Company. She uses ballets aesthetics in a contemporary manor to critic and discusses the technique, choreography, and spacing that the dances present. The producer of the blog is Heather Desaulniers who is an ex professional dancer and choreographer who has a received her PhD in dance history and uses her extensive knowledge in dance to paint a picture of the live performances she is analyzing. She also analyzes dance in books and how it impacts the contemporary ballet world.
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