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The Connection Between Fantasy and Dance
Have you ever noticed that fantasy and dance often seem to go hand in hand?
So many images on Google feature fairies dancing around toadstools, or in enchanted forests and gardens. Pinterest has plenty of these illustrations, which often find their way onto personal profile pages.
In my own book, “Fantastica - Surreal Prose & Poetry”, which you will find on Amazon, one of the stories (called ‘Festival of Dance’) features a girl who is soon to dance in front of the “little folk”, as fairies, elves, pixies and their kin are sometimes called, gods and goddesses, ghosts, mermaids and other mythical beings.
Ballet also plays its own part in the subjects of dance mixed with fantasy - The Dance of The Sugarplum Fairy, accompanied with the well-known tune by Tchaikovsky is one fine example.
Children, and some adults, enjoy dressing up in fairy costumes (usually bought on EBay) and some even attend festivals where people can dance together and have fun.
What is it, that makes us connect the world of fantasy with the world of dance? Is it because it takes adults back to their childhood innocence?
So many images on Google feature fairies dancing around toadstools, or in enchanted forests and gardens. Pinterest has plenty of these illustrations, which often find their way onto personal profile pages.
In my own book, “Fantastica - Surreal Prose & Poetry”, which you will find on Amazon, one of the stories (called ‘Festival of Dance’) features a girl who is soon to dance in front of the “little folk”, as fairies, elves, pixies and their kin are sometimes called, gods and goddesses, ghosts, mermaids and other mythical beings.
Ballet also plays its own part in the subjects of dance mixed with fantasy - The Dance of The Sugarplum Fairy, accompanied with the well-known tune by Tchaikovsky is one fine example.
Children, and some adults, enjoy dressing up in fairy costumes (usually bought on EBay) and some even attend festivals where people can dance together and have fun.
What is it, that makes us connect the world of fantasy with the world of dance? Is it because it takes adults back to their childhood innocence?
