Aronofsky’s <i>Black Swan</i> as a Postmodern Fairy Tale: Mirroring a Narcissistic Society by Margarete Johanna Landwehr

“…Based on the plot of Swan Lake, Black Swan depicts an ingenue’s metamorphosis into a woman and a prima ballerina that contains a fairy-tale plot in which a naïve heroine overcomes enemies and obstacles in order to achieve success and sexual maturity. …”
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La Fille Mal Gardée: Film Between Artistic Freedom and Selective Memory by Polona Petek, Petra Roter

“…Alexei Uchitel, 2017), a costume drama about the love affair between the future Tsar Nikolai II and prima ballerina Matilda Feliksovna Kschessinskaya, and its reception in the Russian Federation and elsewhere. …”
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THE CHANGING OF THE AESTHETIC BALLET’S SPHERE IN THE INTERWAR PERIOD. BETWEEN THE DECONSTRUCTION OF OSKAR SCHLEMMER’S BALLET AND THE IDEA OF “GEBRAUCHMUSIK” OF PAUL HINDEMITH – AN... by Maria-Roxana BISCHIN

“…Some dancers like Mikhail Baryshnikov brought the ballet in the area of the classic performance, and others as Maya Plisețkaia (the ʻprima-ballerinaʼ of the twentieth century) brought the ballet to a classical-romantic line. …”
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IMMUNOLOGICAL ESTIMATION OF THE COLLECTION SAMPLES GENUS OF THE ROSA L. IN THE CASE OF AFFECTION BY SPHAEROTHECA PANNOSA LEV. VAR. ROSAE WORONICH IN CONDITIONS OF A NATURAL BACKGRO... by Marchenko А. B.

“…For intensive development as for high- and as for low- virulent pathogens, that leads to the appearance of epiphytoties, which accelerate rate of formation and occurrence of aggressive races is contributing to of 50 % of the samples varieties of the group of tea-hybrid (‘Julia Michel’, ‘Alexander’, ‘Dame de Coeur’, ‘Imperatrice Farah’, ‘Karen Blixen’, ‘Kardinal 85’, ‘Krymskaja noth’, ‘Roter Stern’, ‘Victor Borge’, ‘Augusta Luise’, ‘Black Magic’, ‘Peace’, ‘Double Delight’, ‘Glorious’, ‘Prima Ballerina’, ‘Lady Rose’, ‘Rose Giardino di Boboli’, ‘Valentino’, ‘Pink Intuition’, ‘Red Star’), 42,8 % of the samples of group of climbing roses (‘New dreams’, ‘Polka Babochka’, ‘Dorothy Perkins’, ‘Devich'ji Grezy’, ‘Krasnyj Majak’, ‘Krymskije Zori’, ‘Polka’, ‘New Dawn’, ‘Rosarium Uetersen’), 20 % of group of english roses (‘Jubilee Celebration’).…”
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Sõdadevaheline vene emigratsioon suures ilmas ja väikeses Eesti / Interwar Russian Emigration in the Larger World and "Little Estonia" by Irina Belobrovtseva, Aurika Meimre

“…Reportedly the first professional ballet troupe was assembled in Tallinn in 1918 by Sessy Smironina-Sevun, but the first actual ballet was performed in 1922, premiering with Coppelia, choreographed by the Moscow Bolshoi Ballet prima ballerina Viktorina Krieger, who played the lead role, and was later to be the artistic director of the Estonia ballet. …”
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The Politics of Dancing: Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo by Selby Wynn Schwartz

“…Doubtfire and Dame Edna, or can we trace from their double heritage - edgy 1970's gay performance tactics, and those monumentally iconic Russian prima ballerinas - an underlying political strategy of activism and cultural relevance? …”
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