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… Read More
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… Read More
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… Read More
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… Read More
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… Read More
