WEEK FOUR: “L Is For Lift” (Wednesday)

WEEK #4: Wednesday It’s Wednesday again!  And it’s the last day of August!  Try not to panic.  It’s still technically summer until September 23.  In today’s Coffee Break With the Ballet feature, “Then & Now,” we’re all about partnering and lift. Then & Now These days dancers lift each other – though we still love […]

WEEK FOUR: “L Is For Lift” (Tuesday)

WEEK #4: Tuesday Coffee Breaks With the Ballet – where learning is fun!  Time for another installment of “Let’s Get Technical,” with ballet-geek historical facts and another Google Challenge. Let’s Get Technical Back in the day, dancers were lifted by stage machinery to create the appearance of floating, weightlessness and flying through the air.  In […]

WEEK FOUR: “L Is For Lift” (Monday)

WEEK #4: Monday It’s Monday again!  And it’s almost September!  But don’t worry, it’s not technically autumn until the 23rd, and we’ve got another episode of our Coffee Break With the Ballet web series to help you give your brain a daily five-minute summer vacation. EPISODE Four: “L Is For Lift” Disaster!  The printer is […]

WEEK THREE: “L Is For Legs” (Friday)

WEEK #3: Friday It’s 3:00 on the last Friday of August, when the minds of office workers everywhere turn to thoughts of barbecues, farmers’ markets, naps in the sunshine, and their warm-weather libations of choice (beer, margaritas, iced tea, strawberry lemonade . . .)  To get you through the last few hours until you can […]

A Puppet Show (But Not For Children)

A Puppet Show (But Not For Children) Long before Disney made Pinocchio a real boy, before Woody met Buzz Lightyear, before the Scarecrow and the Tin Man wanted a brain and a heart, before the Velveteen Rabbit learned to hop . . . there was Igor Stravinsky’s Petrouchka, a haunting ballet about a puppet who […]

WEEK THREE: “L Is For Legs” (Thursday)

WEEK #3: Thursday It’s Thursday, which means there’s only 24 hours left before it’s the weekend!  On today’s Coffee Break With the Ballet we’ve got another installment of “Stars of OBT” and another “Random Thursday Question” to entertain you and give your brain a little end-of-the-week mini-vacation.  You’re welcome! Stars of OBT: “Get a Leg […]

“A Rebellious Bird That Nobody Can Tame”

“A Rebellious Bird That Nobody Can Tame” A knife-wielding heroine, a controversial ending, and a theatre full of horrified aristocrats. . . . Welcome to opening night of Carmen, 1875. “Love is a rebellious bird that nobody can tame, and you call him quite in vain if it suits him not to come. Love is […]

WEEK THREE: “L Is For Legs” (Wednesday)

WEEK #3: Wednesday Poor underappreciated Wednesday, equidistant from the weekends and sometimes the hardest afternoon to get through . . . Well, we’re on a mission to restore Wednesday’s reputation with today’s Coffee Break With the Ballet feature, “Then & Now,” where we talk about how ballet has evolved from past to present. Then & […]

WEEK THREE: “L Is For Legs” (Tuesday)

WEEK #3: Tuesday Put on your thinking caps, balletomanes (that’s the technical term for “ballet fans”, in case you didn’t know), because it’s time for another Coffee Break With the Ballet installment of “Let’s Get Technical,” with historical information and a Google Challenge.  Today we’re talking about feet, the hardest-working part of a dancer’s body. […]

WEEK THREE: “L Is For Legs” (Monday)

WEEK #3: Monday It’s Monday again!  Back to work!  But don’t worry, we’ve got another episode of our Coffee Break With the Ballet web series and another week of fun content to give you a little break from the daily grind every day at 3! EPISODE THREE: “L Is For Legs” On this week’s episode, […]