Cinderella complex

Dancing in the Spotlight Standing in the spotlight is a very frightening, gut-wrenching accomplishment. Dancing alone in the spotlight can be even more so. I experienced dancing in the spotlight two years ago, when I played the part of Clara in the Nutcracker. Of course, it all started with dance, or rather, without dance. My mom was driving me to the studio, but I was not feeling well, so she strode inside to inform my teacher I was unable to dance that day. When she walked back out, Mother…

Synopsis: Tia Mowry-Hardrict stars as Holly: a kind hearted singer who tries out for the open spot in the local but well- known Christmas group called the Snow Belles that her late mother founded. Although extremely talented, Holly gets a call from Marci (Tori Spelling), the group’s leader, who tells Holly that the spot was taken by Marci’s less talented best friend. Determined to star in the local mall’s Christmas Eve show, Holly refuses to accept defeat. Consequently, she gathers a group of…

Act I takes place in the different barn, on Shrove Tuesday, 1601, the night before the execution of the Earl of Essex. Ned, in his thirties, enters, swearing while trying to take off his costume. He is infuriated because Jack as Benedick forgot his line which was a cue for Ned as Beatrice to turn on the stage during the performance before Queen Elizabeth I. The possibility of Ned walking off the stage and the potential humiliation from it makes Ned more and more furious. Slowly other members of…

preparing for non-stop for months. I am dancing Swan Lake. My name is Odette. Alright, so my name isn’t actually Odette, it’s Annie. The boring, brunette, ballerina who likes to escape into fantasy lands such as the land of the Nutcracker, Swan Lake, or Cinderella. However, the only way I can do this is through my dancing. This is a good thing because years ago I had devoted my mind, body, and soul to ballet. It has become my life. In many ways it has become my career, my future. Often now I…

In Walt Disney's "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs", the author shows the differences between the middle class and the rich with two extremes. The rich are made out to seem destructive, malevolent and entitled. This is shown because of how Snow White as well as the queen because of how they get what they want. The Queen tells the Huntsman to kill Snow White and all her life Snow White begs for the Huntsman. However, the middle class is made out to look as if they are always joyful and happy, even…

For my independent reading selection, I have chosen "The Red Queen", by Victoria Aveyard. I just got the book for Christmas and read it two days ago. It held my attention very well, with humor and other attributes. It's a very unique book, as far as I know. The sequel, and the prequels, are just as good. The Red Queen, a book about a girl named Mare Barrow, shows a journey from living in "The Stilts", Mare's hometown, to Mare living in a palace, betrothed to a prince named Maven, who is…

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.…