Wild swans

Opening night at the KC. Absolutely love-love-love Ratmansky's ODESSA!!! The steps, execution, the costumes (tacky polyester is just right here), the mood lighting, the music -- oh, how I love the music! The theme is part Grigorovich's GOLDEN AGE - with its 1920s nightclub for criminals - and part bastardized IN THE NIGHT (featuring three couples in diverse stages of a relationship). What a cast, especially the three principal ladies...Sara Mearns, Sterling Hyltin, Ashley Bouder...partnered by

The Black Swan is a psychologically based thriller in which Nina, a dedicated ballerina who belongs to a highly elite company in New York City, strives to one day become prima ballerina. She covets the role of Swan Queen in her company’s upcoming rendition of “Swan Lake”. As she is shy and innocent in her demeanor, Nina is the epitome of the character of the White Swan. On the other hand, the part of the Black Swan is seductive, dark, and passionate. The artistic director of the company, Thomas,

From the first shots of Whiplash and Black Swan, we see the protagonists immersed in their respective disciplines. Andrew Naiman practicing the drums, Nina Sayers dreaming of dancing the White Swan. Both of these films bring us behind the scenes of a world most people never get to see. Both were relatively low budget, leaned heavily on their scripts, and led to Oscar wins for great performances. But most importantly, both of these films tell the tale of an artist seeking greatness who must first

In 2004, The Swan, was an American reality television program in which women who were judged to be ugly were given "extreme makeovers" that included several forms of plastic surgery. “The title of the series refers to the fairy tale, The Ugly Duckling, in which a homely bird matures into a swan” (Famous Fix). “The Swan” had multiple contestants on each show, including Lorrie Arias, who underwent surgery in 2004 and has regretted her decision since then. "I was screaming, 'I want my face back!' That's

relevant themes in society today. This enduring power of Yeats’ poetry, influenced by the Mystic and pagan influences is embedded within the textual integrity drawn from poetic techniques and structure when discussing relevant contextual concerns. “Wild Swans at Coole”, “Easter 1916” and “The Second Coming” encapsulate the romanticism in his early poetry to civil influences and then a modernist approach in the later years. The three poems explore distinct transition of a poet while discussing ideas of

This version of the book titled The Ugly Duckling by Hans Christian Anderson was much better than any of the other versions I have read. This version includes more in depth details about what actually happens to the little ugly duckling. The detail helps the reader better understand what is happening in the book because they can actually picture the different events that are taking place. The book is also better because it has detailed pictures of each event that is taking place so the reader can

element the art have, it is a work that created by the people who want others to feel or think what they feel or think, or what they want them to feel or think, which perfectly describe the property of advertisement. But, just like black swan and white swan in the “Swan lake", not all the public art is affecting people in a constructive way, so do advertisement, making worse by its bestially influence and creating lots of problems. Therefore, the toxicity of advertising is created by its purpose, missing

In the story The Osage Firebird, Betty Marie wants to be a ballerina. The structure of the text is based on the ideas that were in this passage. The passage describes the girl that wants to be a ballerina but has some challenges to face before she is a professional ballerina. Some of this story deals with the background of the girl. She is a Native American and because she is a Native American, people treat her differently because she comes from a different culture than others. They even pick on

Elwyn Brooks White, or E.B White is best known for his children’s books The Trumpet of the Swan, Stuart Little, and one of his best known books; Charlotte’s Web. E.B was not a children’s writer from the beginning, he wrote pieces such as poems and short stories for Harper’s Magazine. For that magazine, E.B “wrote three children’s books- Stuart Little, Charlotte’s Web, and The Trumpet of the Swan- which became classics” (The New Yorker 375). White has a very different style that he writes with, “White

unique and how she eventually saw who she was becoming. The tone of the passage begins as a calm environment. The girl was surprised by a particular book on the bookshelf. The novel appeared to have a serene look to it. The “swans gliding on the blueblack lake… the swans posed on the placid lake” (2,11) . The words gliding and placid evoke a calm and soothing emotion to the readers. The tone shifts as more cation occurs as the reader beings to read the poems. The girl is intrigued by the poems