Hey Everyone! For our Spring Recital, the Conservatory theme is Sleeping Beauty. The Sr. Corps are doing actual variations, and everyone else (including my class) is just doing dance routines to the music. We started our dance last week, and are about 40 seconds into it. I and the other 16 year old girl in my class walk on stage and begin the dance, and soon the other girls join. I'm so nervous! I've never been on stage with less than 5 other people, let alone being the only person on my half of the stage. Yikes! Here's our music:
Quick summery (I'm paraphrasing here): Carabosse (Maleficent if you only know the Disney version) the fairy gets a little angry because everyone's having this big party to celebrate the christening of the Princess Aurora, and she didn't get invited. So she just shows up and is like, "C'mon guys, what the heck? Why wasn't I invited?" and the parents are all, "I dunno, blame that guy." So she casts this curse that on Aurora's 16th Birthday she will prick her finger on a spindle and die. Ouch, pretty harsh, right? The parents are all, "Nooooo, please!!" and Carabosse shows no mercy. But, all hope isn't lost! The most powerful fairy, The Lilac Fairy (her variation is pretty common), still hasn't given her gift to the Princess. She can't undo the curse, so instead she changes it so that instead of dying Aurora will just fall asleep for 100 years and then be kissed by a prince to wake up. Phew, really dodged a bullet there, right?
So then, fast forward to her 16th party. This is the clip above. Aurora's having a ball, literally and figuratively, and all of a sudden this creeper comes out of the shadows and gives her a spindle. She takes it, and even though her parents know what's coming, they're kind of just like, "Hang on...wait...oh whatever." She pricks her finger (the end of our dance) and wobbles around a little and falls into a deep sleep. The Lilac Fairy casts a spell that the rest of the kingdom would fall asleep with Aurora, so that when she wakes up everyone isn't dead.
100 years later this prince is going hunting with his friends. He leaves them, and the Lilac Fairy shows him an image of Aurora, and he's like, "Woah, I want to meet her!". (Seriously, what would they do without the Lilac Fairy?) Anyway, the prince is smitten with this sleeping 116 year old princess, kisses her, everyone wakes up. Boom, easy as pie, right? They get married and all is well.
Moral of the story: Always invite the envious fairy to the party or she'll cast a spell to kill your daughter.
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