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Read The Ideas For A Tweet Ballet

Diablo Ballet shares ideas for Web ballet that came from Twitter dance fans — for instance, 'how about no women being thrown around by men?' 'The Web Ballet' is March 1-2 in Walnut Creek.

Who says you can't build a ballet by Twitter?

This week Diablo Ballet is compiling the suggestions that came in by Twitter pitching ideas for the first professional dance production constructed entirely from ideas by Internet users.

From "how about no women being thrown around by men?" to moves with "subtlety" not "freakish flexibility " — Diablo Ballet has some tweets to consider in choreographing the ballet.

Valentine's Day was the last day for submissions via Diablo Ballet's Twitter hash tag, #DiabloWebBallet.

Participants are also voting on three potential music selections at Diablo Ballet's YouTube page.

For the Twitter suggestions, it's now up to Diablo Ballet Artistic Director Lauren Jonas and choreographer Robert Dekkers to pick seven choreographic suggestions. Dekker, a dancer with Diablo Ballet, is artistic director of San Francisco's Post:Ballet.

"We want to show people the creative process of dance and help make ballet accessible to all," said Dan Meagher, director of marketing for Diablo Ballet, in a press release. Meagher developed the Web Ballet idea.

The Web Ballet will be presented as part of Diablo Ballet's Inside the Dancer's Studio series March 1 and 2 at the Shadelands Arts Center Auditorium in Walnut Creek. The winning suggestions will receive tickets to the performance and a photo from the created work, autographed by Dekkers.

Twitter suggestions

Here are some Twitter suggestions shared by Diablo Ballet:

Sophia ‏@dancer_sophia
Soft angel like developpe and pas de bouree and strong powerful grand jete and rond de jambe en l'air for the demons #DiabloWebBallet

Sophia ‏@dancer_sophia
Angels vs demons Lights bright white dresses=angels and light dark as the demons beat the angels ends w/ only 1 angel left #DiabloWebBallet

Blondie ‏@BlondieBallet
@Diabloballet Motions of dancers: Intricate port de bras with flourished pique turns. l #DiabloWebBallet

Sarah Piner ‏@SarahPiner
#DiabloWebBallet dance the small everyday good deeds ppl do. We all see the awfulness, pls show some good. @DiabloBallet tks 4 listening

Leah Danielle ‏@dancetutu
Would love to see a Mary Poppins influence/inspired piece in the #DiabloWebBallet!

Leslie Udland Love this idea! My suggestions: 1) Mood: solitary/alone 2) Emotion: pensive...afraid to move 3) Dance steps: Various battements - basic and generic, until one "discovers" that movement frees 4) Setting: Insane asylum

Ginny Gragg ‏@GinnyGragg
@DiabloBallet #DiabloWebBallet How about no women being thrown around by men? No pas de deux or only women doing it.

Lauren Warnecke ‏@artintercepts
@diabloballet Lots and lots of temps de fleches, please... #diablowebballet http://www.artintercepts.org/2013/01/25/diablo-gives-ballet-a-reboot/ …

ramona peterson ‏@ramonapeterson3
@DiabloBallet I think it should be set at a wine tasting!:)

Elizabeth A Sullivan ‏@easull
@DiabloBallet Dancers: sassy; Mood: intelligent; Moves: not about freakish flexibility, but subtlety. Can't wait to see the outcome!

Lina ‏@NataValina
@DiabloBallet #diablowebballet i always liked a powerful, love story. romeo&julielt, giselle, swanlake-it allows for beautiful dancing

Gerald Guitarware ‏@Never_Dare
Dancing on guitars, pedals, keyboards, other things that make noise. #DiabloWebBallet

Gerald Guitarware ‏@Never_Dare
It might be dangerous, but how about 1 inch of water on the stage? #DiabloWebBallet

Jess Dixon ‏@jesslynndi
@DiabloBallet using space other than the stage #DiabloWebBallet

Jim Lloyd ‏@JimLloyd
Ella, 7yrs old, says #DiabloWebBallet should include "sashay sashay step step leap".

Gabriela Simich ‏@dancegab
@DiabloBallet Each dancer influences and changes other dancer's mood. Settle. new dancer repeats. web of emotions. #DiabloWebBallet

Erica Chipp ‏@Erica_Chipp22
Characters based on "village peoples'" professions #diablowebballet

Christian ‏@chrs7186
#DiabloWebBallet how about the ballet is set in an Antique/Rare/Used Book store?

Simone Tomwing ‏@Simz_T 
It's Carnival season in #Trinidad&Tobago. I think that wud make for an exotic & interesting setting #DiabloWebBallet

Mitsouko Mitze ‏@Mitzerocks  Would ❤ to see a ballet based on #Rock music! Open with Led Zeppelins #Kashmir  #WhyNot #different Two worlds collide!

@chrs7186   @DiabloBallet Someone has to be in high heels the enter time.

Jonathan Mangosing ‏@MangoJMango
#diablowebballet the story of the Dodo Bird, birds who can't fly and became


These tweets are from a middle school dance class in San Francisco (13 and 14 year old students). I dont know the schools. I asked and they never replied :(

Mood: Angelic, sweet; Dance Moves: fall, turn, in unison (moving together to make a movement)

Music option: 2 Mood: Confused Emotion: Angry Movement Ideas: Reach, Roll, and Leap.

mood: anger movements: people lifting each other up into the air and then pretend to drop the persona

music option 1, dark/suspenseful, fright/child's wonder, intertwine/ movements grow 'like a tree'


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