tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6968132365438511409.post7472669971281608684..comments2024-03-29T04:23:31.740-05:00Comments on Tales of Faerie: Who's the Bluebird in Sleeping Beauty?Kristinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01097525403940409218noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6968132365438511409.post-75236452031567556292016-10-06T18:32:20.010-05:002016-10-06T18:32:20.010-05:00I didn't know about the other fairy tales in t...I didn't know about the other fairy tales in this ballet, either! So interesting! I've seen the cat sequence before, but never realised it was a connection to The White Cat. Also, when I first read the title of this article I thought it said 'Bluebeard' instead of 'Bluebird' hahaha, clearly we both have fairy tales on the brain!Amyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13311936206951108530noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6968132365438511409.post-10172515412478992102016-09-06T12:35:39.872-05:002016-09-06T12:35:39.872-05:00Yes, you're right, the fairy tale characters a...Yes, you're right, the fairy tale characters are guests at the wedding who are providing entertainment. It's very similar to the second act in Nutcracker, where all the Sweets from around the world come out and perform for Clara to thank her for returning their Prince to them. It's a way to feature more dancers from the company at least! Kristinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01097525403940409218noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6968132365438511409.post-68911567530339793232016-09-05T19:05:29.191-05:002016-09-05T19:05:29.191-05:00It seems to me that this is almost a ballet-within...It seems to me that this is almost a ballet-within-a-ballet, similar to what occurs in some works of Shakespeare, such as "Hamlet" or "Midsummer Night's Dream." I haven't seen this ballet (though the videos you posted look beautiful), but it almost appears these short faery tale "skits" are meant to show the type of entertainment present at the wedding; for example, at the end of the Puss routine, it looks like some of the seated ladies on the edge of the stage are talking to the men with them, almost like audiences make comments and critiques on a performance after each scene or act. I have no idea if this is accurate, but it's an interesting idea to play with.Kendra Smalleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14282138622668869883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6968132365438511409.post-49477229135273244052016-08-23T19:29:09.881-05:002016-08-23T19:29:09.881-05:00One of the reasons I have PDF's of Andrew Lang...One of the reasons I have PDF's of Andrew Lang's fairy books is because they include some of d'Aulnoy's tales.<br /><br />The White Cat was one of the stories my brother and I read all the time as kids once we discovered it (I think we found it in a really obscure book that we got from a yard sale).Ozfan95https://www.blogger.com/profile/14766400170098200286noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6968132365438511409.post-50269590611077984102016-08-23T12:10:28.798-05:002016-08-23T12:10:28.798-05:00Ack that youtube video was supposed to be embedded...Ack that youtube video was supposed to be embedded in the post too! Hopefully it should be working now...<br /><br />It would be interesting to trace the history of the term "Prince Charming!" Could very possibly have been from Bluebird, in the same era that coined the term "fairy tale"...Kristinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01097525403940409218noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6968132365438511409.post-65558893669329313832016-08-22T17:41:08.302-05:002016-08-22T17:41:08.302-05:00I had no idea Red Riding Hood and Cinderella were ...I had no idea Red Riding Hood and Cinderella were in this ballet. I've only seen two versions of this ballet before. One was a recording of an old Nureyev performance which only included the cat dance and the Bluebird dance at the end and the other was the Matthew Bourne version, which was highly reimagined (the fairies were vampires. It was a little weird even for me). Thanks to the tip from this post I went and found this which includes the dances I missed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynIBHBagJsI<br /><br />Y'know, supposedly, this little gathering wasn't the first example of a fairy tale crossover. Fairy tale scholar R.C. Do Rosario (aka Doc in Boots) once told me on twitter that the various salon writers would make reference to each other's stories in their writing.<br /><br />What I'm kind of wondering now is if the prince Charmant from "The Bluebird" is the first usage of "Prince Charming" for a fairy tale prince.Adam Hoffmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16129844426168129584noreply@blogger.com