WEEK SIX: “T Is For Tights and Tutus” (Friday)

WEEK #6: Friday Welcome to our final installment Coffee Break With the Ballet!  Hope you all have enjoyed this as much as we have!  Today’s pop quiz has a special bonus question, plus we’ve got a behind-the-scenes feature for you and a dance video you have to see to believe.  If you’ve submitted answers for […]

WEEK SIX: “T Is For Tights and Tutus” (Thursday)

WEEK #6: Thursday Happy almost-weekend!  On today’s Coffee Break With the Ballet we’ve got our final “Stars of OBT” and a new “Random Thursday Question” that we KNOW you’ll all have an opinion about . . . Stars of OBT: “Dress For Success” Costumes are the finishing touch, whether it’s a simple leotard to let […]

WEEK SIX: “T Is For Tights and Tutus” (Wednesday)

WEEK #6: Wednesday It’s Wednesday again!  Got the middle-of-the-week blues?  In today’s Coffee Break With the Ballet feature, “Then & Now,” it’s time for the history of the tutu! Then & Now Costumes for both men and women have gone through a number of variations since the earliest days of European court dancing before evolving […]

WEEK SIX: “T Is For Tights and Tutus” (Tuesday)

WEEK #6: Tuesday Welcome back, ballet lovers, to another fun installment of “Let’s Get Technical” on today’s Coffee Break With the Ballet with nerdy ballet trivia and a Google Challenge you won’t want to miss. Let’s Get Technical Here’s a fun fact for your next pub trivia night: the leotard was first popularized by French […]

WEEK SIX: “T Is For Tights and Tutus” (Monday)

WEEK #6: Monday It’s the final week of our Coffee Break With the Ballet series, and we’ve got all kinds of surprises for you to make this week extra fun!  The final Sassyplum Fairy webisode will appear on Friday as the grand finale of our “Coffee Break” series – and believe me, you won’t want […]

WEEK FIVE: “E Is For Energy” (Friday)

WEEK #5: Friday Welcome back to Coffee Break With the Ballet!  True, this was a holiday week so it was technically one day shorter, but you still deserve a reward for making it through to the weekend!  We’ve got a “battle of the sexes” dance break and another fun pop quiz to get you through […]

WEEK FIVE: “E Is For Energy” (Thursday)

WEEK #5: Thursday One more day until 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. Stars of OBT: “Deportment of Energy” * When a dancer’s performance has you sitting on […]

WEEK FIVE: “E Is For Energy” (Wednesday)

WEEK #5: Wednesday It’s Wednesday again!  Got the middle-of-the-week blues?  In today’s Coffee Break With the Ballet feature, “Then & Now,” we’re all about Energy!. Then & Now Whether contemporary or classical, 18th or 21st century, ballet can express humor, life, wit and joy. Auguste Vestris (late 1700s) Paul DeStrooper in The Concert at OBT […]

WEEK FIVE: “E Is For Energy” (Tuesday)

WEEK #5: Tuesday Back at the office after a three-day weekend?  Is this Tuesday feeling like a Monday?  Never fear, we’ve got another fun installment of “Let’s Get Technical” on today’s Coffee Break With the Ballet with fun historical facts and another Google Challenge. Let’s Get Technical An impeccably precise performance can still be dry […]

WEEK FIVE: “E Is For Energy” (Monday)

WEEK #5: Monday Happy Labor Day!  We hope you’re all enjoying today’s Coffee Break With the Ballet on the couch in your pajamas, but for the benefit of those of you stuck at work on a holiday, we made today’s extra fun. EPISODE FIVE: “E Is For Energy” Our heroes were stuck at a shareholders’ […]