Chinese Cinderella

Ballet Did you know that in 1672 all parts in ballet were performed by male dancers in wigs and masks to make them look like female so they could play both roles? Very few women were allowed to perform because the males thought they weren’t good enough now, most men have lost interest in ballet and it’s mostly girls performing. Point shoes are the main part of the ballerinas outfit. Female ballerinas wear knee length tutus to show of points and curves. They also wear leotards, and usually…

While Lucy went in the wardrobe it feeling on touching coats and snow falling down the smell of coats to the cold air, hear the quietness out in the forest. In The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe they have a lot in common and differences with the book and the movie. I prefer the book version of The Lion,The Witch,The Wardrobe because there is a lot of detail that is in the book but not the movies. In the movie and book The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe have a lot in common, First of all,…

Spirited Away is an animated film directed and written by Hayao Miyazaki. In this animated feature, Chihiro a 10-year-old girl disapproves of the choice of her parents to move to a new house, especially when she notices that the bouquet of flowers her friend gave her as a good-bye gift is wilting. Chihiro and her parents stumble upon a seemingly abandoned amusement park while searching for their new house. At the abandoned amusement park her mother and father are turned into giant pigs. Chihiro…

In the Grimm’s Snow White tale, a queen wishes for a daughter that is “as white as snow, as red as blood, and as black as ebony wood” (Little Snow White). However, upon her daughter’s birth, the queen dies and her daughter is left to an atrocious step mother who is obsessed with being the most beautiful female in the land and once a magic mirror proclaimed that Snow White is the most beautiful in the land, the evil stepmother became incredibly envious, ordering a huntsman to murder Snow White.…

The musical started with intro with shrek all lonely and scary. Other fairy tales come in the scene so is lord farquaad and the fairy tale characters sing about their life. Shrek goes stands up for the characters and speaks to lord farquaad. Shrek finds the donkey and they team up. After Shrek finds Donkey there is a scene with lord farquaad and he cuts the ginger breads legs off and makes him tell lord Farquaad something. Then the magic mirror appears and they play a game show and he has to…

This poster advertised Princess Hyacinth, a fairy tale ballet about a blacksmith who dreams that his daughter is a princess kidnapped by a sorcerer. The poster features a popular actress Andula Sedláčková, who starred in the title role. ➊ The absence of line and detail to create depth is very limited on her facial expression, to establish the figure’s pale and cold glance and her lack of contentment. ➋ The flower on the crown is Hyacinth, which is the name of the princess, representing her…

There are many different cultural versions of the story of Cinderella. There is only one story of Cinderella that I grew up with and that is the “Disney movie version of Cinderella.” This particular version of the story most people of today’s culture are familiar with and know that it is truly loved by many. However, it is always great to venture out of the norm, and to look for other versions of the story that is so loved by many people. This is such a popular story that different cultures all…

Little Dancer Aged Fourteen is a sculpture created in 1881 by Edgar Degas. The model of the sculpture is Marie Van Goerhem, a daughter of a Belgian Laundress and tailor. Degas uses Marie Van Goerhem to depict an activity that the fourteen-year-old girl participates which is ballet. The sculpture appears to be bronze and tinted with cotton skirt and a white ribbon in the back of her hair. The little girl’s head is tilted upward with her shoulders pulled back. Degas is a French artist who…

A girl named Felice and her best friend who is a boy named Victor are orphans. They plan that that night, they would escape to Paris. When they made it to Paris, Victor falls off the bridge, so Felice is left alone. She walks around and finds the dance school she and Victor were talking about before they left Paris. Along the way, Felice finds a caretaker named Odette who used to be a ballerina. Then one day, when the mail came for a girl named Camille she took it so instead she could go to the…

. . . nothing. Cinderella was treated terribly and the author did great when portraying that. The author displays the traits of persistence, determination, and hope in this book very well. The author wants us to know that things may get bad in life, but if you have persistence, determination, and hope, life will get better. Cinderella is one of the most uplifting and “feel- good’ books of all time. Cinderella is one of the most beneficial books for someone’s childhood. Cinderella teaches…