World Ballet Day is BACK, dance friends! Tomorrow, October 5, five top-notch ballet companies—The Australian Ballet, the Bolshoi Ballet, The Royal Ballet, The National Ballet of Canada, and San Francisco Ballet—will host a 22-hour (!) live stream, bringing viewers inside their classes, rehearsals, and backstage preparations. Ten additional ballet companies will join the hosting orgs […]
San Francisco Ballet just released their repertory trailer for the 2017-2018 season and it’s all sorts of #goals. This two minute teaser is just that; A tease—taking you from the studio to the stage and back again with dazzling behind the scene shots that make you feel like you’re right there with the company! The […]
We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again: dance and film are made for each other. In the past couple of years, ballet companies have used the medium to promote new work, creating “trailers” that give beautiful peeks at upcoming premieres. These short films reach many people who are unable to see the ballets […]
We love how creative ballet companies have been getting with their promotional videos recently . The latest company to eschew the traditional (and kind of stale) beautiful-shots-of-beautiful-dancers-dancing route? San Francisco Ballet. Not that its new short film—a teaser for SFB dancer and choreographer Myles Thatcher‘s upcoming premiere, Ghost in the Machine—doesn’t include tons of gorgeous […]
When dancers audition for Paul Taylor Dance Company, they’re often thrown by one particular request: to walk across the studio by themselves. “Paul can see a lot about a person by the way they walk,” says Michelle Fleet, a veteran Taylor dancer. “But many people get cut at that point, because they’re terrified—a walk can […]
Looking for some dance inspiration? Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater is beaming no fewer than FOUR works, including the beloved classic Revelations, to a movie theater near you this Thursday, October 22! Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater’s Linda Celeste Sims in Wayne McGregor’s Chroma. Photo by Paul Kolnik […]
Gap has featured plenty of mainstream celebrities in past ads. (Remember that adorable Claire Danes khaki commercial?) But we’re especially excited about its fall ad campaign this year, because it highlights a couple of familiar dance faces: “jookin’” star Lil’ Buck and San Francisco Ballet’s Yuan Yuan Tan. Called Shine, the marketing campaign recognizes “emerging […]
You might have seen 16-year-old Leili posing in a Discount Dance Supply ad, or competing at the 2015 Youth America Grand Prix finals in NYC. But this super-focused aspiring ballerina spends most of her time away from the spotlight, training at the San Francisco Ballet School. In fact, Leili first fell in love with the […]