Analysis Of The Dance Of The Sugar Plum Fairy

A. In Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy, Tchaikovsky’s main music characteristic is Russian folk music. He does like to use some elements from French, Italian, and German music.

In the familiar more traditional version, Cinderella is a poor maid girl that, with the help of fairy godmother, gets a chance to meet prince charming. They fall in love, get married, and live happily ever after, and then what? What is a happily ever after? Is this even a realistic thought? In the dark comedic poem Cinderella, Anne Sexton forces the reader to examine this question. Utilizing literary devices such as tone, imagery, and style, Sexton encourages the reader to think about how silly and unlikely a fairy tale ending actually is.

In modern times, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s ballet, The Nutcracker, is a Christmas classic. With memorable songs and beautiful instrumentation, many cannot imagine Christmas without it. Dance companies perform the ballet year after year with spectators coming to watch annually. There have even been LGBT, hip hop, and Jewish adaptations to the popular ballet (Begley). Thousands of musicians and dancers all over the world perform it to add to the excitement and cheer of the holidays.

In conclusion, “Dancer”, by Vikie Sears, utilizes the devices in literature to enhance the effectiveness of the story through symbolism, dialogue, and

The theme of “Marigolds” holds true for many people in real life. It is human nature to need something to believe in. When people cannot find hope through children or a career, for example, they search for another belief as a replacement. Some find hope in material objects, like Miss Lottie and Lizabeth. Lizabeth realizes about Miss Lottie, “The witch was no longer a witch but only a broken old woman who had dared to create beauty in the midst of ugliness and sterility” (638). John Burke could not give Miss Lottie a chance of continuing her legacy because he was “queer-headed” and only rocked on the porch aimlessly. Her dilapidated house and empty town did not make Miss Lottie optimistic either. As a result, Miss Lottie found promise in the beauty of her marigolds. When people are hopeless

He was a first lieutenant in the infantry stationed at Camp Sheridan, Alabama, but profoundly interested in matters relating to the war. What he was interested in other than himself, and his dream’s of a literary career was a beautiful blond ballerina, and that he saw performing “The Dance of the Hour’s” at a country club in Montgomery. He thought he had never seen anyone so lovely, but when he inquired and he was told that the girl, Zelda Sayre was far too young for him and having just graduated from high school the month before.

For my final exam essay, I have selected to write about Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy composed by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. It is an extremely popular piece of music that I feel most people have heard before. This piece is especially popular for Television commercials right now because of Christmas coming up, which is when The Nutcracker is usually performed. The original composer was P.I. Tchaikovsky, a Russian composer during the Romantic period. Tchaikovsky composed eleven operas, three ballets, over one hundred songs, and orchestral music. His three ballets, Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty, and The Nutcracker have become some of the most well-known pieces from the Romantic period, and are still widely popular today.

In some instances, Cinderella’s behaviour in Perrault’s tale display characteristics that are alike to a modern western woman, today. On the first night of the Ball, the fairy godmother struggles to find something turn into a coachman. Then Cinderella suggests to transform the “...rate in the rat trap...into a coachman” (Perrault). This act reveals that Cinderella is capable of solving problems individually (Robbins, 107); a quality of a modern western woman. In addition, Cinderella demonstrates intelligence when the step sisters talk to Cinderella after returning from the first night of the Ball (Robbins, 107). Cinderella pretends to be sleepy by “...rubbing her eyes and stretching...” (Perrault) when the step sisters visit Cinderella’s room, after returning from the first night of the ball. By pretending to be sleepy, the step sisters assume that Cinderella did not attend the Ball. The step sisters tell Cinderella that a “finest princess” (Perrault) came to the Ball, however, when Cinderella inquires about the unknown princess name, the step sisters state that they did not know. Also, the step sisters tell Cinderella that the prince “would give all the world to know who...” (Perrault) is the unknown princess. This way Cinderella slyly and confidently interrogates the step

Listening to Music class has taught me a new way to listen and enjoy music. I have learned how to differentiate the melodies, rhythms, and instruments in a song. It has also introduced me to different genres in the music world, aside from what is usually played on the radio. I can now attend any concert, listen to any genre, or watch any ballet and easily recognize the many specific aspects the music being played has. Ballets are very interesting to me. The audience is able to enjoy the music being played as it is telling a story, and being acted out through the performer’s body language. In the two ballets, The Rite of Spring and The Nutcracker, a great story is told in both referencing the many great dynamics music has. These two specific ballets are written by different composers, and each one of them have certain conditions they were written under. As well as different receptions, popularity, and development. The Rite of Spring and The Nutcracker’s differences has made some sort of an impact in the performing world back then as well as now.

The further exploration of her own self continues when Esperanza is encountered with her female sexuality. The family of little feet describes this sexual realization. As a whole, the vignette offers an atmosphere of innocence and fairy tale. Later however its tone becomes perverse when after the girls prancing a man wants to sexually assault them. This is the fairy tale gone wrong or a story of the fall from innocence. It is important to note that a mother is the one who hands them down a bag of old shoes. This action represents the passing down of these feminine roles; the shoes aren’t just shoes but what a woman’s value is in this community on a sexual level. The girls move through this scene with a sense of innocence at first being new to using these shoes. This extended metaphor continues as the girls start exploring the shoes further by switching and trying them on “until they are tired” indicating a cycle of repeated acts, the form in which this system of oppression is conditioned in their lives. Soon the girls discover that “the men can’t take their eyes off” them. The text says, “We must be Christmas” this is where the girls become an object; an event the comparison of them to a nice holiday takes away all

Friday December 1, 2017, I went to The Center for the Arts to watch “The Nutcracker” presented by The Dance Foundation. The presentation was directed by Ashley Miller Davis, Choreographed by DeAnn Petruschke and Ashley Miller Davis, and Costumes by Lisa Ivy and Brenda Linton. I believe the stand out actors in this presentation of “The Nutcracker” was not the main characters but The Sugar Plum Fairy which was played by Adriana Pierce and her Cavalier played by Neil Marshall. I plan to tell the entire story that was presented but my main focus will be on these two.

This poetic syntax helps carry the speaker’s anxious voice throughout and sets an uncanny tone of what the boy really endured in the kitchen that day. Rhyming the last words of every other line helps highlight key terms to draw a more concise conclusion of the overall message the speaker wants to convey. Although, a true Waltz only takes five minutes or less to complete; the pace of the poem indicates time moving very quickly and when the father, “beat(s) time on [the son’s] head” (13), it solidifies the Waltz representing a guised metaphor for a quick and senseless beating. Life’s’ struggles are easier to endure when they are masked with a positive element.

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Anastasia is a musical made by Disney about the Grand Duchess, Anastasia. Many of these scores have a lost sense to the because Anastasia doesn’t really know who she is. For instance, “Once Upon A December”, it has the mystical floating of barley knowing what is there. She knows there is something she doesn’t remember right under her nose, but she just can't remember. People have been looking for her and her grandma has offered a reward to find her.The piece,”A Rumor in St. Petersburg”describes the excitement for the reward , but not actually finding her.

'It seems to me, my dear friend, that the music of this ballet will be one of my best creations. The subject is so poetic, so grateful for music, that 1 have worked on it with enthusiasm and written it with the warmth and enthusiasm upon which the worth of a composition always depends." - Tchaikovsky, to Nadia von Meck.