At the beginning of February we launched a New York City Ballet YouTube Channel. (Yippee - legal videos of dance!) This gives NYCB an additional space in which to present any video content we create (program previews, behind-the-scenes footage, interviews, etc). While there are so many options today in terms of where to share your videos online, the one thing that YouTube has above any other is the largest audience. And with YouTube’s relatively new branding and design features, it’s possible to create a channel that is complimentary to the look and feel of your company or work.
Unfortunately due to rights issues, most of these videos cannot be embedded on other websites - but fortunately the company has been working hard to be able to make them available here. The program preview videos which have lived on nycballet.com, in the NY State Theater lobby and on YouTube will be taken down after tomorrow’s performance, so try to check them out before they are gone.
This is an introductory video we did, as a way of introducing and welcoming people to our channel in a more personable way…
We’re now in the midst of planning for something we’ll be doing during the company’s upcoming tour to London (the first time NYCB has been to London in 25 years!). More on that soon.
Alex Wong
That’s funny, a bunch of us were just watching at that page today in our dressing room. That’s pretty awesome.
Feb 24, 2008 @ 01:27
K.
Congratulations on the exciting youtube channel!
We are very excited especially when we’re not able to get to performances…
(Last week when we were watching Live Metropolitan Opera HD at the local movie theater, we wondered
if NYCB would one day do the same???)
Feb 24, 2008 @ 01:40
Cathy
I’ve been checking it for the past days, and it’s so great! a chance to see a little bit of nycb
Feb 24, 2008 @ 01:47
philip
Kristin, these videos are addictive…
Feb 24, 2008 @ 17:31
Anne Marie
Congrats! This is awesome!
Feb 24, 2008 @ 21:33
Sophie B.
Kristin,
this is so great! a bunch of my friends and I somehow all discovered it (separately) the other night at the same time, and we all immediately emailed each other about it.
thank you for all the wonderful work you’ve done with technology at nycb!
Feb 25, 2008 @ 00:39
Alannah
omg, when I saw this on youtube I was so excited!!!!!!!! great work!
Feb 25, 2008 @ 14:34
davidb
this is so cool! finally nycballet is on youtube! kristin, i know you must be responsible for all this. you’re amazing!
Feb 25, 2008 @ 19:47
thewinger.com » Dancing online
[...] The connection between the video above and the rest of the article is, to me, a little fuzzy. Overall, though, the article is pretty neat. Especially cool is that Looseleaf recognizes certain notables, including Daniil Simkin, Rolando Sarabia, Anaheim Ballet, Grover Dale’s Answers4Dancers and, of course, New York City Ballet’s website and YouTube channel. (Congrats, Kristin!) [...]
Jun 01, 2008 @ 22:56