#sleeping beauty ballet

[dozydawn]

[princess-ibri]

Any other details on Fairy Queen Aurora?

Sure! So she earns the role after fulfilling a quest on behalf of the former fairy queen Titania, which enables her to reunite with King Oberon. Aurora agrees to become the new Queen after she’s lived a full human life alongside Phillip

They have a long and happy life together, raise their two children and see their grandchildren grown, and then walk into the Enchanted Forest hand in hand into the Fairy Realm, where they regain their youth and gain basically immortality .

Aurora rules as the Fairy Queen Briar Rose from then on into the future of the EverRealm (queen of the fairies on the continent they’re on. She’s basically the High Queen and there are lower different fay monarchs, such as the elf queens seen in Sofia the First, the Neverland Fairies and Queen Nicnaven, seen in my Brave sequel idea)

Also here’s some of the High Fairy Council that advises Briar Rose (named them after the fairies in the Sleeping Beauty Ballet)

[essegigi]

Matthew Bourne's Sleeping Beauty – A Gothic Romance

Hey look what's on YouTube!

If you've ever thought "hm Sleeping Beauty could use more vampires in it" this is for you.

(Or if you just like gorgeous costumes and beautiful dancing. Still good.)

[leslutdepointedulac]

Just finished watching the Sleeping Beauty ballet directed by Matthew Bourne and it was soooo good. They changed it so that instead of Aurora going to sleep for 100 years and then the prince finds her and wakes her, the prince meets her before she sleeps and is turned into a vampire by one of the fairies (there are several fairies and all of them are vampires) so he can still be around in 100 years time and then at the end when he wakes her he turns her too

[stardustspell]

[highflyartist]

🚨New Character Alert🚨

One of the 7 special fairies who help Saragona & Marie throughout their journey.

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Heavily inspired by The Silver Fairy from The Sleeping Beauty ballet, my version is just like the ballet version (kinda) since I add more details of what she does in the story.

Plus, she likes that Saragona & Marie are having a romantic relationship.

Have some random Silver Fairy digital sketches:

I'll try and draw the other fairies when I have time.

[locallibrarylover]

*by live theatre i mean plays, musicals, operas, ballets, concert versions of musicals, staged readings, & things of that nature. EDIT: YES this includes amateur, local, kids, high school, & community theatre. almost every show i've seen has been local

if you want, list the names of the shows you've seen in the tags!

[the-bees-cheese]

ok non-dancer folk, i’m curious, which of the four standard ballet tutu types is your favorite?

the pancake tutu

as seen in sleeping beauty (pink) and swan lake (white)

also known as a platter tutu, the pancake is probably what you think of when you hear the word ”tutu”. it’s made of 8-16 tulle layers increasing in length from bottom to top, kept stiff with starch, stitching, and sometimes a thin wire hoop sewn in between the layers.

the romantic tutu

as seen in giselle (light blue) and chopiniana (white)

the romantic tutu is the oldest tutu style, worn as early as the late 1700s, and popularized by marie taglioni (1804-84) in 1829. it’s made of lighter tulle layers reaching to as high as just below the knee, and as low as to the ankle.

the bell tutu

as seen in the awakening of flora (four dancers) and paquita (blue)

the bell tutu is a less common variation of the pancake tutu. it uses dozens of layers of tulle without a hoop to get a fuller, lighter look when in movement. it’s more expensive and difficult to make, but completely worth the effort.

the powder-puff tutu

as seen in jewels (white), and stars and stripes (red)

the powder-puff tutu, also known as the american style tutu, was favored by american choreographer george balanchine (1904-83). it’s made of short layers of tulle that aren’t sewn together or hooped, to achieve a less structured look.

thanks for coming to my ted talk :) i’m curious which y’all prefer

[pixiexbites]

[enchanted-keys]

Sae Maeda as the Fairy of the Woodland Glade from The Sleeping Beauty (Royal Ballet 2023)

[champagnexowishes]

[dozydawn]

Ballerina of the English National Ballet in costume for Sleeping Beauty, 1997. Photographed by Tim Graham.

[princess-ibri]

Did a design for the fairy Tranquility, the mother of the Three Good Fairies in my backstory for them. She was gifted with the power of dreams and foresight and was an advisor to the Fairy Queen Titania before her untimely death at the hands of the Dark Fairy Carabosse

Edit: I totally forgot to put this but her name is taken from an unused name for one of the Three Fairies and she's also inspired by the Lilac Fairy from the Sleeping Beauty Ballet

[rosepompadour]

One day I shall be the princess, and spend my whole life dancing in fairyland.

Anna Pavlova, I Dreamed I Was A Ballerina (1922)

[rosemarysdragon]

obsessed with the way that ballets are just like “wow! we did it! we got through the plot! now let’s sit down and let all of our friends dance in front of us for an entire act”

[nsvry]