Miami City Ballet And Arts Ogranizations Learn To Utilize Social Media (VIDEOS)

Miami City Ballet's upcoming participation in PBS' series "Dance in America" reflects an innovative move on the part of performing and visual art organizations to utilize social media to garner new audiences. Performing two works by George Balanchine and one by Twyla Tharp, Miami City Ballet is joining the ranks of major contemporary and classical dance companies before them.

There was a time when "Dance in America" was a dance maven's "must-see TV." In its heyday, from the mid-1970s to the early 1990s, the series often broadcast four programs annually featuring the likes of New York City Ballet, American Ballet Theatre and the companies of Martha Graham, Paul Taylor, Alvin Ailey and Twyla Tharp, Mark Morris and others, all in sensitively directed studio versions of their most compelling repertory.

Appropriately, arts organizations around the country are becoming more technologically-friendly and interactive from New York's Metropolitan Opera Live in HD to the Guggenheim Museum's video series, "Play." Check out our slideshow for five new ways to experience visual and performing arts.