"World Ballet Day:" Live internet-broadcast, October 1, 2014

[Cygnet]

Mark your calendars and check your timezones. On October 1, (or September 30 depending

where you are ), Youtube will stream a 9 hour behind the scenes marathon featuring, Australian Ballet,

the Bolshoi, the Royal Ballet, National Ballet of Canada and San Francisco Ballet. The broadcast will

start in Melbourne, then it will relay in succession to Moscow, London, Toronto and end in San Francisco.

The global webcast will feature classes, rehearsals, and the dancers' working day in each company.

At the Bolshoi, rehearsals of Grigorvich's "Legend of Love," and Maillot's "The Taming of the Shrew"

will be shown.

http://www.sfballet.org/worldballetday?gclid=CL6BzLjA68ACFYhefgodKYEAYQ

[sandik]

Mark your calendars and check your timezones.

Ladies and gentlemen -- start your search engines!

[Stage Right]

Does this mean you have to live in one of the cities mentioned in order to see it, or can those of us in the hinterlands see it too?

[kbarber]

Does this mean you have to live in one of the cities mentioned in order to see it, or can those of us in the hinterlands see it too?

It is livestreamed worldwide to anyone who has an internet connection. Vivat internet.

[kbarber]

San Francisco Ballet's kickstarter campaign to cover their costs is just $3500 short of their $30,000 goal, which they need to reach in the next 7 days or apparently they lose the over $26,000 that has been pledged (I didn't realize that was how kickstarter works, but it seems to be).

Donations can be made here:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/sfballet/sf-ballet-on-world-ballet-day-live

[Helene]

This Kickstarter policy is rooted in classic project management: if you promise to deliver a certain scope, and you say it will cost "x" to deliver, if you raise less than "x," you can't deliver on your promise, and it applies to all projects, even those described as "Help us to defray the costs of something we're going to do no matter what." (The other side, which is that you can raise much more than the project budget, is antithetical to classic project management, but people who chose to give after the amount has been raised know they are doing so.)

indiegogo, another fundraising platform, has few restrictions on project type and allows the fundraiser to choose the Kickstater "all or nothing" model or to opt for keeping everything pledged/raise, and if the pledges don't reach the target, the percentage charged by indiegogo is higher.