Ballet in Cinema Blog
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Joffrey: Our Best Interactive Q&A Yet!
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#JoffreyMovie Santa Fe, NM – our audience loved it, thank you so much! congrats on premiering a new, high tech way of running a Q&A!
— The Screen (@TheScreenSF) January 28, 2012
Great applause at The Boedecker Theater in Boulder! #JoffreyMovie
— Dairy Center for Art (@DairyArts) January 28, 2012
In what’s becoming a trademark of Emerging Pictures’ special movie events, last Saturday we held our latest interactive Q&A, and our most successful one to date in terms of theatre participation. The “simultaneous world premiere” of Joffrey: Mavericks of American Dance featured a live webcasted introduction by Dance Film Association’s Joanna Ney and the film’s director Bob Hercules, and was followed by a 40-minute interactive Q&A and panel discussion. Over 30 theatres spread out across the United States were tuned in and projecting these live portions in their auditoriums, and we received questions via Twitter in real time from more than 20 of those theatres, both new highs for Emerging. Audience members from Philadelphia (Prince Music Theater) to Naples, Florida (Silverspot Cinema) to Bridgeport, Connecticut (Bijou Theatre) tweeted questions and even photos and videos directly from their smartphone to document and share the experience. The hashtag #JoffreyMovie yielded over 200 Tweets, reaching over 200,000 people on Twitter, providing a valuable burst of exposure for a modest documentary film. But in addition to being a new way of marketing the film, these interactive national screenings are just flat out fun! And easy for theatres to participate in too. We can’t wait for the next one…(coming in March!).
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The ‘simultaneous world premiere.’ Joffrey‘s festival debut screens LIVE to Emerging audiences nationwide on January 28
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Get ready! Early in 2012 Emerging will be bringing our latest movie event to digital cinemas across the US, only this time we plan to hit our arthouse documentary fans and Ballet In Cinema audiences in one fell swoop!
Teaming up once again with the prestigious Lincoln Center in New York City, Emerging Pictures, in partnership with Hybrid Cinema, will be presenting the World Premiere of the documentary Joffrey: Mavericks of American Dance at movie theatres simultaneously with the film’s screening at Film Society of Lincoln Center on January 28th. Joffrey opens the 40th edition of the Dance On Camera Festival, produced annually by Dance Films Association. This event marks the first time that a film has simulcast its world premiere out of a major festival.
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Two Nutcrackers in cinemas nationwide!
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Ballet in Cinema & Emerging Pictures are proud to present not one, but two different productions of The Nutcracker to celebrate the 2011 holiday season.
Families sharing the joy of the holidays will love The Nutcracker from the Royal Ballet, with choreography by Peter Wright after Lev Ivanov. This now-classic production creates the world of the 19th-century onstage, with a Christmas tree that magically grows and toy soldiers that come to life! Starring Ricardo Cervara, Iohna Loots, Miyako Yoshida and Steven McRae.
The Bolshoi Ballet takes a fresh look at this wintery favorite with Yuri Grigorovich’s inventive staging. Clara’s magical nighttime journey takes on new and daring dimensions in a production that is sure to thrill balletomanes who have had their fill of the usual sugarplums! Starring Nina Kaptsova and Artem Ovcharenko.
For a complete list of showtimes and to buy tickets, visit:
The Nutcracker from The Royal Ballet and The Nutcracker from The Bolshoi
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The IFC Center plays Opera & Ballet in Cinema
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Opera and Ballet Come to IFC Center With High-Def Presentations on the Big Screen
Noted Downtown Arthouse Teams with Emerging Pictures To Bring Music and Dance from the World’s Most Acclaimed Performing Arts Companies to the Village in April.
IFC Center is proud to announce a new program to bring Emerging Pictures’ “Opera in Cinema” and “Ballet in Cinema” presentations to downtown Manhattan this spring. Featuring canonical works mounted by world’s greatest opera and ballet companies—including the Royal Opera, the Bolshoi and the Royal Ballet—these events present high-definition performances from such stars as Renée Fleming, Placido Domingo and Natalia Osipova.
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If you’re a fan of Emerging Pictures’ Ballet in Cinema Series, here’s your chance to play a vital role on our Team! Become a Super Fan: You’ll receive free tickets and chances to score DVDs & CDs and classic ballet memorabilia! Besides receiving local and national recognition via Emerging Pictures and our local venue partners, you’ll be doing a valuable service in supporting your local arts community.
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Orchestras on Big Screens: Chase Scene Needed?
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Photo: Cory Weaver/Metropolitan Opera, via Associated Press
By DANIEL J. WAKIN
Published: November 9, 2010
Original article
The performing arts have long been holdouts for unfiltered, direct connection between audiences and performers in a digitized, electronic and screen-laden world.
Not anymore.
Opera houses, ballet companies, even the National Theater in London, are competing to lure audiences to live high-definition broadcasts in movie theaters, many of which are then shown again. It is the HD-ification of the arts, and it is already affecting programming decisions along with costume and set design, lighting choices and even ticket prices.
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The Flames of Paris opens Nov. 2!
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Ballet in Cinema presents The Flames of Paris from the Bolshoi Ballet!
This presentation is the kick-off of Emerging Pictures’ Ballet in Cinema series, which will continue throughout the year with both live broadcasts and recordings of performances from the Bolshoi, the Paris Opera Ballet, Covent Garden and La Scala. (See complete schedule below.)
THE FLAMES OF PARIS portrays the French Revolution as told through two love stories, heinous acts perpetrated by the evil Marquis Costa de Beauregard, battalions of the Marseillais troops on the march to Paris, the appearance of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, the storming of their royal palace, The Tuilleries, and, of course, the swiftly descending knife of the guillotine.
This screening is a high-definition recording from a March 2010 performance of THE FLAMES OF PARIS at the world renowned Bolshoi Theatre of Moscow. The ballet was first performed in 1934 at the then Kirov Theatre, today’s Mariinsky Theatre, in Leningrad (now St. Petersburg). THE FLAMES OF PARIS became one of Stalin’s favorite ballets, an art form not particularly favored by the Soviet leader. The ballet was originally presented on the eve of the anniversary of Russia’s October Revolution, the inception of the first Communist government. Given that THE FLAMES OF PARIS is about the conflagration of the French Revolution, it was not surprising that the ballet was a favorite of Stalin’s and was a perennial favorite at the celebrations that marked the Russian Revolution and the Soviet Union’s start.
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The Nutcracker opens Dec. 1 and LIVE on Dec. 19!
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A magician with secrets, an enchanted gift, a battle with the Mouse King, a guiding angel and a visit through the Land of Snow to the Kingdom of Sweets: it must be the seasonal favorite, The Nutcracker. The ballet draws on all the imagination and fantasy of E.T.A. Hoffmann’s story of Christmas Eve, when young Clara creeps downstairs for one of her presents, but finds herself instead at the start of a night of magical adventures.
This year, Ballet in Cinema is proud to present not one, but TWO productions of Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker!