It's World Ballet Day!

September 30, 2014


We told you it was coming
—and now it’s finally arrived!

Today is the first-ever World Ballet Day, which means it’s time to watch dancers from five of the world’s greatest companies—the Australian Ballet, the Bolshoi Ballet, the Royal Ballet, the National Ballet of Canada, and San Francisco Ballet—taking class and rehearsing. The up-close-and-personal experience is provided by an ongoing live stream. Each company is taking over the stream in turn, with the feed beaming first from Australia and then traveling across the world until it reaches San Francisco.

Actually, my tenses are a little off here: As I write this, the Australian, Bolshoi and Royal Ballets have already had their moments of live stream glory. But never fear: The whole thing will be available to watch on YouTube for 48 hours once SFB’s section concludes. And even after that grace period, various highlights from the extravaganza will remain up online.

Right now The National Ballet of Canada is up at bat—take a look! And please apologize in advance to your teachers, because I’m guessing it’s going to be hard to get any work done today…