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[princesssarisa]

Sleeping Beauty Spring: "Britannica's Fairy Tales from Around the World: Sleeping Beauty" (1990 animated short)

Britannica's Fairy Tales from Around the World (sometimes shortened to Britannica's Tales Around the World) is a direct-to-video animated series produced in the early '90s by Encyclopedia Brittanica, Inc. Its aim was to teach children about the different cultural variations of fairy tales. Each installment paired an adaptation of a popular European fairy tale with two other shorts based on similar tales from other countries. Sleeping Beauty was paired with retellings of The Petrified Palace from Bangladesh and Sun, Moon, and Talia from Italy. Because I've chosen only to review Sleeping Beauty adaptations based on Perrault and the Grimms' versions, and because each short can be viewed separately on YouTube, I'll only review the 12-minute short based on Perrault's tale.

This Sleeping Beauty stands out from others because it is indeed based on Perrault; so far, it's the only adaptation I've seen to follow Perrault and continue the story after Sleeping Beauty and the Prince are married. Accordingly, the more familiar first half of the story is covered quickly. It opens at the baby Princess's christening, where seven good fairies – beautiful ladies, each with a different color for her gown and skin – each bestow their gifts. Of course the feast is interrupted by the Evil Fairy, a purple-skinned, red-winged creature who bears a resemblance to Demona from Gargoyles. But the lilac-clad Queen of the Fairies softens her curse from death to sleep and adds that the entire court will sleep with her. Sixteen years later, the Princess is frolicking through the castle with friends, when a new room magically appears inside a tower – in it, of course, is a spinning wheel, and the curse comes to pass. Then, a hundred years later, the Prince is traveling with his mother and rides forth alone to explore the briars surrounding the castle. It doesn't take him long to discover Sleeping Beauty and break the spell.

At this point, the narrator tells us that most people think the Prince and Sleeping Beauty lived happily ever after, but the truth is different. After their marriage, nine years pass, during which the Prince becomes king and Sleeping Beauty gives birth to two children, Dawn and Day. Then, as in Perrault's tale, the young King is forced to go to war, leaving his wife, children, and elderly mother behind. But the rest of the story plays out differently than Perrault's second half. In this version, the King's mother isn't an ogress who tries to eat her grandchildren and daughter-in-law. Instead, the Evil Fairy comes back, now more feral and animalistic than she was a century earlier. With a magic potion, she transforms the King's mother into a "bugaboo" – a large beetle-like insect – and assumes her likeness. Then she gives the potion to a servant, ordering him to transform Sleeping Beauty, Dawn, and Day into bugaboos too. But he hides them instead, transforming two cats and a rat in their place. Before long, however, the Fairy discovers the trick, and she boils a cauldron of bugaboo potion, then tries to hypnotize Beauty and the children to make them step into it. But just in time, the King comes home from the war, and he battles the Fairy long enough for Beauty to snap out of her hypnosis; she then saves her husband by overturning the cauldron, so that it falls on the Fairy, crushing her to death. The rat, the cats, and the King's mother are restored to their true forms, and at last everyone does live happily ever after.

This isn't the highest quality animated short – that I'll admit. The animation has a strange glossy look, and the characters tend to have large, slightly creepy mouths and to stare directly at the viewers in an unnerving way. But the narration and voice acting are generally fine, apart from a few flat line deliveries, and the music, drawn from Tchaikovsky's ballet score, is effective. And I do enjoy finally seeing a Sleeping Beauty adaptation that includes Perrault's second half of the story, even if it is considerably altered.

This isn't an essential Sleeping Beauty by any means, but it's worth seeing at least once.

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Britannica's Fairy Tales from Around the World: The Complete Collection (Videos, 1990-1991)

You can watch these animated shorts with diverse animation styles here.

[rockybloo]

Talking about fairy tales reminded me about a series I learned by Encyclopedia Britannica for VHS. It was called Britannica's Tales Around the World which was hosted by the late Pat Morita. Where they look at a classic fairy tale and then at either at similar tales from other parts of the world. Some which aren't really talked about much. I learned about the vhs from a video of someone reviewing them. I would recommend checking it out its very interesting.

oh, that's neat. I'd have to check it out later.

I like fun little edutainment stuff esp if it's oldish.

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[ariel-seagull-wings]

TOP 12 BEASTS (FROM BEAUTY AND THE BEAST)

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The sequel came! A ranking dedicated to my favorite fairy tale prince, to who’s anger, antissocial behaviour, shyness, awkwardness and desire for love and understanding i always related to as a child.

12º The version from Britannica’s Tales Around The World (1990)

In this direct-to-video animated educational series presented by Pat Morita, the gargoyle inspired Beast appears wild, specially because is one of the few versions that doesn’t wear clothes, but overall is the most sad and fragile encarnation, and that frailness is conveyed trough his raspy voice. I just want to comfort this ugly cute puppy so much...

11º Vincent Cassel as the Beast in Christophe Ganz’s La Belle et La Bête (2014)

Once there was a Prince who was happily married to a beautifull woman. One day, she promissed to give him a son to be the heir of his lands, as long as he stoped obsessing in hunting a Golden Deer. He promissed, but his pride, stuborness and vanity was stronger, and he didn’t kept that promisse, ending up killing his beloved wife, who was a forest nymph that tooked the form of the Golden Girl. As punishment, he must live as a Beast to atone for his wifes’s death, and find someone that will help live a cleaned life, happy and free of any guilty.

10º Xavier Rouillon as Azor in Zémire et Azor (2014)

He kind of tries to act wild as a façade, but really, he is still a fragile hearted, sensitive Prince, who just a loving hand to comfort him.

09º George C. Scott as the Beast in Beauty and the Beast (1976)

A performance that was nominated for the Emmy Award of Outstanding Leading Actor in a Special Program - Drama or Comedy, and rightfully so. This is the most explosive encarnation of the character put in front of a camera: Scott’s Beasts has moments of talking calmly, specially when he offers to tell the tragic story of the death of a unicorn to Trish Van Devere’s (his real life wife) Beauty. But most of the time he is awkward and bursts into anger, to later mourn in deep remorse. In real life, George C. Scott fought for most of his life with his alcoholism and his explosive temper that kept people away in fear of him, and i cannot help but see this struggle reflected in his portrayal of the Beast, wich makes me more touched by it.

08º Mikhail Fyodorovich Astangov/Tim Curry in Soyuzmultifilm’s Alenkiy Tsvetochek (1952)

The cutest, most adorkable Beast ever. His sad voice and his big puppy eyes are simply sweet.

07º Aleksandr Abdulov as the Forest Spirit in Irina Povolotskaya’s Alenkiy Tsvetochek (1977)

A Forest Spirit who camouflages his body to take the form of surroundings, be they rocks, leafs or wood, with only his eyes remaning human. At first, his presence feels unsetling, but slowly he becomes a presence that makes us feel confortable and safe.

06º Mark Damon as Duke Eduardo in Edward L. Cahn’s Beauty and the Beast (1962)

Cursed as a child to become a Beast every night in the moment he started to rule his Dukedom/Principality, Don Eduardo searches to reconcile his duties as a ruler with his search to be fully human, all the while his uncle Bruno plots to take the dukedom from him. Interestingly only his appearance become animal like, but his mind keeps being human, what is a very refreshing aproache to the character.

05º Jean Marais as the Beast in Jean Cocteau’s La Belle et La Bête (1946)

The most iconic and influential encarnation. To quote Megan Kearney, Marais’s mysteryous Beast is more of a “cipher for the unconscious than a fully fleshed out character, but that makes sense in the dreamy, surrealist world of this film”. Troughtout the movie he acts like a very controlled aristocrat, but later we see how he tries to repress his beastly instincts, and how broken, tortured and vulnerable he is inside. 

04º Gregory Hines as Koro in Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales For Every Child (1995)

One of the first encarnations that is not brooding, but instead, while acting stressed at the begginging of the cartoon, is overall a funny awkward dorky, who sings an excited song talking about his desire for Beauty to love him for who he is. I want his plushy.

03º Argus from Megan Kearney’s Beauty and The Beast Webcomic (2012-17)

The outcast bastard son of a nobleman, who learned to use magic in the hopes of becoming powerfull, but in reality created a lonely prison for himself. His only comforts are the studies of botanics and herbology, and Beauty’s friendship. Argus’s arc involves letting go of pride, and learning to open his feelings, and accept the helping hand of others.

02º Raymond Benson as The Beast/Prince Adam in Disney’s Beauty and The Beast (1991)

A hibrid of buffalo, boar, wolf, lion and gorilla with bright human eyes, who hopes to have his humanity seen by others, but must give the first step and see that humanity in himself, because after ten years of being cursed by a sorceress whose old appearance he judged and to who he refused shelter, he sees himself as only a monster. Disney’s Beast is one of the first characters i remember at first fearing as a villain, to later cheer for as my heroe.

And now, the moment everyone is waiting for. My Number One Beast portrayal is...

01º Vlastimil Harapes as The Beast in Panna a Netvor (1978)

With a design that is a mix between vulture and bird of prey, this Beast lives isolated in the middle of old ruins of a once rich palace. He is fusing himself to those ruins, alone for so long that now his mind talks to him, pushing him to become more and more wild, he even hunts humans and animals to drink their blood to survive, making him grow repulsed of himself. When the beautifull and sweet Julie comes to live in his palace, Harapes’s Beast feels divided between loving her, or killing her to drink her blood like he did with many other people before. He has been in the Beast form for so long, that he feels powerfull and safe in it, so he is afrayed that someone will come close to break his enchantment. That version of the story notoriouslly has no external character to be a villain: the antagonistic force is the Beast’s own mind. Villain and hero, scary and simpathetic, powerfull and vulnerable: Harapes’s Beast is all of those things. And that is why he is my Number One portrayal of The Beast.

HONORABLE MENTION: Grimm’s Fairy Tale Classics (1989)

[writingwithfolklore]

Folklore Friday: Gnomes

On our adventures around the globe via its most mystical stories I’d like to take you to the European renaissance in the 16th century when the world began to talk about Gnomes.

Gnomes, a little less like the garden ornament we’re used to, are typically small, old and gnarled, and depicted with hunchbacks. They live underground, and are connected to the earth. I felt like doing something a bit more earthy and nature-y this week, and with hope a little nicer than the killer water horses.

Gnomes actually have a really noble history as protectors of the Earth who work in the night, because sunlight is said to turn them to stone. Thus, they must live underground where they protect plant life, and hoard treasures for themselves. Some live in forests, while others live under farms, or rolling hills. In older stories, they were little miners with great wisdom and riches beyond our comprehension.

I’m a big fan of the stories that claim garden gnomes as being just a different species of gnomes, like its forest and farm cousins. It’s a nice thought to have a little guardian for your yard, someone to watch over your plants after the sun’s gone down. I hope they like the work!

While we think of gnomes to wear caps, that’s definitely just the style of the fashion-sensitive garden gnome, because the other guys are usually uglier, dirtier, and take more inspiration for clothing from their naturalistic surroundings.

They tend to be shy, light-heartedly mischievous, and clever. While they may prank humans, they tend not to harm any living thing.

Of course, humanity isn’t as kind. I’ve found in several sources that the gardening community has quite a few thoughts on gnomes—some competitions banning them entirely, causing a debate over class and garden elitism. They’ve also often been the victims of kidnappings, and travel the world with a photo album to come back home to, or in a less fun sense, been stolen or liberated entirely.

Whatever your stance on all that is, I like to believe the gnomes take their title as protector of the yard very seriously, and enjoy the work they do for us. But that’s just my take.

What a happy way to start off a weekend! Let me know if you see any small footprints in the mud after sunrise, or any proud little guardians standing in their yards. Maybe invest in a little guardian of your own! Next week we’re getting into some Holiday writing, see you then!

Don’t just take my word for it:

Gnome - Humanoid Spirit and Mythic Being | Mythology.net

The Mysterious Mythology of Garden Gnomes - Salisbury Greenhouse

Gnome | Myths and Folklore Wiki | Fandom

gnome | folklore | Britannica

On Gnomes: From Alchemical Theory to a Fairy Tale Staple - #FolkloreThursday

[tellmewhatyouheardpodcast]

Episode 1: The Banshee, pt 1

Hail and welcome to episode 1 of Tell Me What You Heard, the podcast dedicated to deep dives on the creatures, motifs, and legends of world folklore. I’m your host LG. In our four episode first season, we’re focusing on wailing women, galloping Hessians, Halloween traditions, and some scary stories to chill your bones. So grab your softest blankie, turn off all the lights, and settle in for some spooky fun. Because right now, we’re going to talk about the Irish supernatural death omen, the Banshee. 

I think most of us probably know, or think we know, two facts about the Banshee. One: she’s a woman. Two: she screams. Hence the phrase, screaming like a Banshee, which is likely the only context we’ve ever even heard the word “banshee” in. That was definitely where I was coming from when I started my research.

Here’s the Encyclopedia Britannica’s definition of a Banshee:

A supernatural being in Irish and other Celtic folklore whose mournful “keening,” or wailing screaming or lamentation at night was believed to foretell the death of a member of the family of the person who heard the spirit. 

Apart from being a woman and her distinctive wail, which we’ll talk about later, I’d say the other most important thing about this creature is that she screams not just to scream -- which would be perfectly understandable -- but specifically in order to foretell a death in the family. But this cascades into even more questions. Is she a member of the family? Is there one Banshee for all of the homes that need her, like Santa Claus, or is Banshee more like a race of creatures? Where does she even come from? To get answers, let’s jump in the way way back machine and visit some Irish texts from yesteryear.

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In 1888 William Butler Yeats, the Irish poet whose name you probably recognize, published a book called Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry. It’s a fun collection of short stories that Yeats gathered from Irish authors and historians who were themselves gathering stories from rural Irish folks. And these authors and historians weren’t gathering just any kind of stories -- they were gathering folktales. Stories about fairies and giants and princesses, and haunted trees and haunted bridges and cursed objects.

And stories the folk did tell -- emphasis on TELL, because these stories were passed through the oral tradition, often over many generations. Sometimes the accounts of these creatures were first hand, but far more often they had happened to brother’s wife in County Clare, or someone’s mother-in-law from Sligo, or someone’s great- grandmother who lived on the coast. DID NOT RECORD

It’s important to note that Yeats wasn’t a folklorist himself, and Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry is an imperfect book especially as it relates to how folklore folklore and data around it is gathered now. At least some of what Yeats claims in the book to be in the folk account -- that is, what the folk actually believe -- simply is not.

But Yeats’s book is still super important because until around the nineteenth century, vernacular stories were not being written down. That’s partly because their dissemination was still mainly oral, but also because they frankly weren’t considered important -- they were FOLK stories, meant for folk, not upper class society, and therefore upper class society didn’t bother much with them. But things started to change partway through the century, and by the end of it, in Ireland and around Britain, men and women  -- and there were quite a few women -- were asking locals to retell their stories in their native languages. If those people hadn’t done that work -- and hadn’t started when they did -- we might not have any folktales today. And who knows what stories and legends we might have if the process had started earlier.

But, I digress. Back to the Banshee, as described by Yeats.

The banshee (from bean, a woman, and sidhe, a fairy) is an attendant fairy that follows the old families, and none but them, and wails before a death. Many have seen her as she goes wailing and clapping her hands. The keen, the funeral cry of the peasantry, is said to be an imitation of her cry. When more than one banshee is present, and they wail and sing in chorus, it is for the death of some holy or great one.

Here’s a great example of a quote-unquote fact that’s not actually present in the folk account. That bit about multiple banshees singing in chorus for an important person -- in the entire Banshee mythos, there aren’t any tales relating that, and it’s unclear where Yeats got that from. But this passage does mention the three hard-and-fast truths about the Banshee that DO align with the folk account.

First, the Banshees IS is always a woman -- it’s the BAN part of the name, spelt in Irish B-E-A-N. Second, the Banshee appears outside the home of the dying person, or closeby.  Sometimes she’s seen in a physical form, and sometimes she isn’t, but either way, she’s there. Third -- her presence alway presages the death, whether expected or unexpected, of a person inside the home. 

Yeats also mentions how the Banshee will quote-unquote follow the quote-unquote old families of Ireland, meaning that she will announce deaths in that family for many generations. As to which families she follows, it’s not agreed upon. Different families are mentioned in different accounts. For now, let me tell you a story from Yeats’ book, recorded by a folklorist called T Crofton Croker, about the Mac Carthy family Banshee.

As a heads up, Crofton’s story is kind of long and meandering, but the details I’ve chosen to include are important to understanding the nature of the Banshee. Also, this story is in the public domain as far as I’m aware, so what I’m saying is, it’s free IP to be adapted into a limited series for Amazon.  Have at it. 

The story begins in 1749. Charles Mac Carthy’s father dies, leaving him in charge of the family estate. Charles is quote “not a pattern of regularity and virtue” and, well, he loves booze. When Charles is 24, he becomes sick and dies suddenly, supposedly from all of the alcohol and late night debauchery. During his wake, in the middle of the night, Charles’s mother goes to check on the body and finds Charles awake and sitting upright. Charles tells her that he did indeed die, and at the pearly gates, he pleaded with God to let him return to earth to atone for his sins so he doesn’t go to hell. God agreed and allowed Charles three more years of life.

Over those years, Charles becomes pious, temperate, and practical. By the time he’s nearing 27 years old, though it’s approaching the day the prophecy of his death is supposed to be fulfilled, no one really believes he’s gonna die because he’s in such good physical shape.

Croker’s story, somewhat bizarrely, at this point shifts to the point of view of several women exchanging letters in 1752. Ann Mac Carthy, Charles’s mother,writes to her cousin, Mary Barry -- not of British Baking Show fame, but maybe her great grandmother -- inviting Mary to the upcoming wedding of Charles’s ward, a guy who never gets any dialog in this story, called James Ryan. We then read Mary Barry’s letter to her sister, in which she details an extraordinary event that happened during the trip to the wedding.

[ashtonlane01]

https://youtu.be/rvL2jq1eOVg

Dance Legacies

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Assessment 2: Reflective Journal

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Word Count: 1765 (excluding reference list)

1)    Romanticism

Romanticism also referred to as the Romantic era was the attitude/ intellectual orientation that defined pieces of painting, literature, music, architecture, historiography, critism and of course dance. This period of time stemmed from the late eighteenth to mid nineteenth century in Western civilisation. During this time period, romantism focused on the irrational, imagination, emotion, visionary and transcendence (Britannica, 2020). Romantic Ballet was a highlight of the era. Being the age of reason, this gave way to imagination throughout the use of Romantic movement.  

Romantic Ballet was considered the birth of story ballet, following the classical ballet time period, Romantic Ballet focused on themes such as: good vs evil, supernatural vs society, man vs nature and was a time of fantasy and the supernaturalism. Women featured in the ballets were considered the lead and were also commonly portrayed as wholesome figures who would always prevail over evil. Whilst the women were performing centre stage, the male dancers were there for assistance. The addition of pointe work was introduced to complement female dancers, giving them the perception of floating. During pointe work dancers would start off rising gradually growing taller onto the tips of the toes (this can be seen demonstrated within my video). The ballet technique of the time adopted the idea of rounded arms and soft movements to give the appearance of weightless/effortlessness. While implementing the now basic foundations such as: turn out, posture, midline. Along with the classic feet/leg and arm positions: first, second, third, fourth and fifth. These positions/foundations of romantic ballet and the light and airy dancing can be seen throughout my video. Portraying spirits, dancers were required to float and fly, this could be seen through lifts. Leading ballerinas of the time included: Mare Tagioni, Lucille Grahn, Fanny Ceritto and Carlotta Grisi. During lectures videos of these dancers were shown to represent the Romantic ballet time period. Within these videos I could clearly identify the observations listed above. This was very helpful for me to observe when exploring movement for my Romantic Ballet demonstration video.

While during my demonstration video I can be seen wearing modern day clothing during the Romantic period the “romantic tutu” was a great invention. The tutu featured long elegant skirts. This choice of costuming allowed the dancers to become the focal point of the performance. The floating tutu worked for much more graceful movement, giving the fantasy of a fairy-tale like character (Cennarium, 2020).  Pointe shoes were beginning to be used for pointe work wear dancers would effortlessly move across the stage. However, it wasn’t the same as current day pointe shoes they were but normal ballet slippers that had been stiffened by rows of darning (CaliforniaBallet, 2020). In my video I wore my demi pointe shoes, which are similar to the shoes of the Romantic time period as they also don’t have a block. Stages were also set as a dream like atmosphere, this captured the aspect of supernatural characters.      

References

Britannica (2020) “Romanticism “

https://www.britannica.com/art/Romanticism

CaliforniaBallet (2020) “ Ballet in the Romantic Era “

https://californiaballet.wordpress.com/2010/06/04/ballet-in-the-romantic-era/

Cennarium (2020) “ The Distinct Periods of Ballet History”

https://www.cennarium.com/blog/distinct-ballet-periods/

2)    Classicism

The classical era of ballet began due to two major changes in the dance world. During the classical ballet period the pointe shoe evolved from the romantic ballet period. This included a sturdy box around the toes and a supported strong sole (This shoe is used in the second section of my classical dance video). The advanced adaption of the pointe shoe allowed dancers to become higher in skill and perform faster movements. Choreographers were also encouraged by current music that was more complex and narrative. Classical Ballet became an art form that was then considered much more technical in skill. Musicians and choreographers would collaborate to create pieces, with choreographers setting the story line and the musicians who matched the story line with classical music. Classical music can be heard throughout my classical ballet clip. Classical ballets were even often set into four sections: adage, female variation, male variation and he grand allegro that finished each performance (DanceAppreciation,2015). These different sections were recognized during lecture videos. Very famous ballets created during the classical period were viewed during practicals these included: Swan Lake, The Nutcracker, Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty. The most famous classical ballet choreographer of the time was Marius Petipa who was considered “the father of classical ballet”, he was too studied during lectures. His creation of realistic performances with an alluring story caught the audience’s attention. His complex sequences displayed: leaps, turns and complex steps. Studying the father of classical ballet assisted me in creating my classical ballet sequence. Leaps and turns can be observed in this video.    

Transitioning from Romantic ballet women were still featured as the lead, many classical ballets even often focused solely on the female dancer and her pointe work. Classical ballet flowed and used movements that were much stronger in flexibility (exceeding higher than 90 degrees). The legs moved faster/higher and the footwork was far more advanced (DanceApreciation, 2015). The advancement in flexibility can clearly be observed within the demonstration video by performing grand battements. Footwork such as: glissades, shoutmons, sautes and entrechat quatre can also be seen during the video. Strict adherences were in turn were made, dancers were now expected to have flat perfect turn out, perfect technique, as well as long flowing lines (Housh, Eric, 2016). Turn out and elongating my lines is incorporated throughout all the movements within my video.  

Classical Ballet dancers were required to be long, lean, flexible and have fast footwork. Therefore, the costuming was changed to allow more movement and display the dancer’s skill. The Romantic ballet tutu was shortened into a “pancake” shaped classical tutu. Classical ballet stage wise required large casts, numerous scene changes and extravagant sets (Yetter, Eric, 2020).  

References

DanceAppreication (2015) “Dance Through The Ages“

https://danceappreciation4.wordpress.com/classical-ballet/

Housh, Eric (2016) “What Is Classical Ballet? “

https://www.tututix.com/what-is-classical-ballet/

Yetter, Eric (2020) “Strategies for Staging Classical Ballet Repertoire”

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/23734833.2020.1711671?scroll=top&needAccess=true&journalCode=udep20

Modernism

Modern Dance developed in the beginning of the 20th century. The dance style advanced as a result of a series of reactions against what people saw as the limited style of ballet and its impractical story lines. Isadora Duncan was considered as the pioneer of Modern Dance. Her development of Modern Dance was based on her belief that the technique of ballet prevented natural movement of the body. Duncan incorporated simple movements into Modern Dance this included natural rhythms stemming her works off of movements from nature such as: the sea and its waves and the wind (Britannica, 2020).

During lectures Isadora Duncan was studied along with her methods. When watching a documentary on Duncan it became apparent that there were particular elements that were used to characterise her dancing. These included: dancing with lifted, far-flung arm positions, unconstrained leaps, skips, freely lifted head, flowing rhythms that one movement moved into the next (Britannica, 2020). This style of dancing can be seen within the Modern Dance video when I perform leaps and skips. My movements flow into one another and to the music, my body is relaxed, unconstrained and able to move freely.

The costuming was also unconstrained and typically no shoes were worn, dancers would instead perform movements bare foot (I can be too be seen dancing barefoot in the video).  Flowing tunics were worn to allow dancers to attain freedom in movement. Props were integrated into the dancing occasionally, however when they were used, they were very minimalistic as Modern Dance focused on natural movement therefore, props couldn’t be too grand as they could detract focus from the dancing. In an effort to focus on the dance style of Modern Dance I decided to not include the use of props within my video. Stage lighting during Modern Dance pieces was directed on the dancer to frame their movements. Staging was also very simplistic much like the dancing. (Britannica, 2020). The most famous Modern Dance artists when looking back were Isadora Duncan (the pioneer), Martha Graham, Doris Humphrey, Mary Wigman and Loie Fuller (Hanson, Rachael, 2020). These artists were also studied within lectures by observing their frame of movement it assisted me greatly in the production of my Modern Dance video.

References

Britannica (2020) “Modern Dance”

https://www.britannica.com/art/dance/Modern-dance

Hanson, Rachael (2020) “Famous Modern Dancers”

https://dance.lovetoknow.com/Famous_Modern_Dancers

Post Modernism

Post Modern Dance is a very unique style of dance it tends to value movement for itself rather than a vehicle for storytelling. Post Modern Dance isn’t made for the audience however instead Post-Modern Dance wishes to give the impression that the audience just happens to stumble upon the dancing. Post Modern Dance creators state that the dancing existed before the audience’s arrival and will continue long after they leave. Choreographers also believe that the world travels long past the borders of the stage and that we are only witness to its action. Post-modern choreography attempts to create a complex relationship between the music and the movement. The dance’s choreography is not reliant on the music, it just so happens to occur at the same place and time. In certain Post-Modern pieces, no music can even be featured (HuffPost, 2020). The art of no music and instead environmental music can be seen in famous Post-Modern dance creator John Cage’s creation “4’33” (Mentalfloss, 2019). This piece has no music for the period of the title and then continues to only use environment sounds for the remainder of the performance. For my Post Modern dance video I decided to use no music as well.  

Post Modern dance movements dismiss the use of virtuosic, concentrating rather on the use of pedestrian movements like walking, flailing, falling, crouching. (Nytimes, 2019). These types of movements can clearly be seen within my Post-Modern dance video as I use pedestrian walks to change directions, incorporate falling, crouching and flailing with floorwork (the use of floorwork was also commonly used during Post Modern pieces). Many Modern Dance choreographers such as Merce Cunningham would also select dancers who weren’t technically trained to leave a greater impression on the audience (MerceCunningham, 2019). The study of reading: No Fixed points : dance in the twentieth century elaborates, on the subject of dancing that appeared untrained/ unrestricted. The pictures within the reading also assisted my visual learning.  My dance piece accordingly used simple and naturalistic movements that didn’t require technique to focus on human movements/meaning.  

The costuming for Modern Dance productions was typically loose fitting and plain in colour, this allowed the dancing to be the focal point (an idea that is very important to Post Modern Dance creators). Film techniques were also another non movement technique that was assimilated as many Post-Modern Dance productions used technology. Close up and long shots was a film technique, different angles were too used that would give a unique perspective to the choreography. The performance group “The Judson Dancers” were a strong example of these film techniques. Film techniques are fused into my Post-Modern video such as long and short shots at different angles.

References

HuffPost (2020) “What the Heck Is Postmodern Dance?”

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/what-the-heck-is-postmode_b_8253322

MentalFloss (2017) “ The Story Behind John Cage’s ‘4’33” “

https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/59902/101- masterpieces-john-cages-433

MerceCunningham (2019) “Merce Cunningham Past, Present, Future”

https://www.mercecunningham.org

Nytimes (2019) “The Pioneers of Postmodern Dance, 60 Years Later”

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/20/t-magazine/postmodern-dance.html

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Ella's mother calls her clever at least twice that I heard.

LITTLE ELLA HAS A LEGIT FULL SIZED CAROUSEL HORSE IN HER BEDROOM??? And with that, it looks like there was at least 1 puppet stage, what I can only assume to be a carousel music box but it's built like a Christmas Pyramid, a mobile, and a canopy bed.

The way she and her dad both say thank you this must have been very difficult for you when they get news the one they love is dying???

The Just So and Shall We lines repeat too.

The dress she's wearing when her father returns and when her mother's dying are the same, it just had fake flowers on it when he returns.

We see 3 different Ella's walking with her father toward the meadow. There's little Ella in Black after her mother dies, then what I assume is teenage Ella in a white or blue floral dress sand her hair work to the side and flowing over her shoulder, and then Lily.

Ella lets her shoes hand off her feet a lot

Her physical reaction to her father mentioning Lady Tremaine even before he says anything about marriage.

That butterfly comb will never NOT remind me of Rose's in Titanic.

I can't see anyone in that time period actually making their day Lucifer???

I hate Lady Tremaine's black hat when we first meet her.

The way Ella smiles and laughs for her father and then visibly deflates the instant he turns around KILLS me.

When the Tremaines arrive, Ella's mother's portrait is on the bookshelf in the study/parlor/whatever that room is where she died.

Drisella tells Anastasia their mother's lying about the house being charming and says it's just manners. Anastasia tells her to shut up.

The look Ella's father gives Anastasia when she says they never thought to decorate, and how he looks back at Ella.

Before he leaves on that last trip, Ella KNOWS he isn't well and she can tell something going to happen.

Why the fuck does Tremaine get so jealous of hearing about Ella's mother when she CLEARLY doesn't love her father?

The way Anastasia and Tremaine both look at Drisella after the complexion line kills me.

Like... Tremaine legit kept up a smile until the carriage pulled away and it was gone in less time than it took to blink.

The harp just sitting in the corner. Totally Ella's mother's. Js.

When Tremaine banishes her to the attic, it sounds like Ella was going to say something about staying in a smaller room?

By the time Ella and Tremaines talk in the study/parlor, all of her things, her father's things, and her mother's things are packed up and set aside, including the portrait of her mother. Suspicious much?

Anastasia and Drisella have toys. At first, we are Anastasia holding a doll and Drisella a rabbit, but they switch later.

Casual reminder that Ella's the youngest, since Anastasia calls her their little sister.

I want a full version of Lily singing Sing Sweet Nightingale and Lavender's Blue.

There are flower decorating and motifs all over this house. The walls. The clothes. Even in the stone wall in the kitchen.

Ella's look at Drisella while she's singing. And like... Tremaine herself tells her to shut up, but she gets mad at Ella for being like cringe.

Ella immediately knows as soon as she opens the door and see Farmer John.

Tremaine is a damn good actress though. Her eyes treating when they get the news.

THE BEEHIVES ARE SO CUTE.

That red bedroom of Tremaine's is so garish though.

Another casual reminder: ELLA NEVER GOT TO PROPERLY MOURN HER FATHER BECAUSE SHE WAS WORKING 24/7.

I imagine the scraps they gave her to eat lessened as time went on and they had less food and money. But she always shared them, no matter how meager.

Jacqueline is iconic.

A GIANT POT OF LAVENDER IS AT THE BOTTOM OF THE STAIRS TO THE ATTIC FROM THE KITCHEN.

Gods that robe of Tremaine's is AWFUL.

"Is there someone we've forgotten" They're dehumanizing her already. What a cunt.

Ella riding barebacked and workout reigns will never NOT impress me tbh.

Convince me the stag wasn't a test for both Ella and Kit from Fairy godmother.

Gods Richard was PERFECT in this role. And every time I hear his real accent I'm shook.

Kit's fucking whipped from the start.

Ella only calls him Kit. You can't tell me otherwise.

His sympathy when she says "They treat me as well as they're able". Tell me that this like doesn't ring in his head later and that's why he knows she's been stopped from coming to him.

RICHARD'S DIMPLES

IT'S KIT. KIT. I'M KIT. You absolute fucking disaster of a man 🤣🤣

And you know the Captain never lets him live that down.

Kit goes away a little and comes back when he says he hopes to see her again.

Ella's little lip bite.

Gods those blue and yellow split outfits on the palace staff are ATROCIOUS.

The banter with Kit and the King. And Kit and Ella in the secret garden.

MASTER PHINEAS.

Why are Kit's outfits so attractive?? 🥺

Kit and the king are so short compared to the Captain and the Grand Duke.

The Captain's laugh.

"That's very kind of you. To think of me." My poor baby.

THE LOOKS AFTER SHE CLAPS BACK IN FRENCH. SLAY.

Also, "I speak French not Italian".

Kit, honey you can say it's for the people all you want. You're not fooling anyone.

What the actual fuck does moonface even mean??

Ella making her dress in a day??? Damn girl.

I love Fairy godmother's beggar woman cloak???

Gods I HATE Lady Tremaine.

Ella's pink dress swear her mother's wedding dress like in the deleted song from the cartoon. And this is the hill I'll die on.

"Hairy dogfather" JFC.

I'd have liked the whole fairy godmother getup better without those dinky little wings tbh.

Ella not knowing what cantaloupe is.

MR. FUCKING GOOSE.

I'm sorry, but the lizard footmen creep me out. THEY DIDN'T NEED TO GIVE THEM THOSE TEETH LIKE WTF.

Ok but like... Would the greenhouse have been repaired at midnight though???

Honestly, Disney deprived us all of Lily being trapped in the pumpkin a la the Cinderella episode of Britannica's Tales Around the World with Pat Morita.

WHY TRANSFORM THE MICE. IT'S A FARM. THEY HAVE HORSES.

"I can't drive, I'm a goose" is my favorite line.

Unpopular opinion??? But I liked the ballgown better either without the butterflies or during the transformation when there was only those few blue ones.

I do like the gold butterflies in the slippers though.

I want to know how they got the crystals to stay in Lily and Helena's hair.

Sitting in a crinoline must be awful.

The palace is stunning.

I love every single one of the chandeliers in this movie.

The king waves at Chelina and Kit KNOWS.

The girl on the staircase next to the Tremaines when they get introduced laughs at them. And honestly, same.

"Someone I meet once TONIGHT".

For real, how did the guards at the stairs not hear Ella's name or that her footman was a lizard? They were like not even 5 feet away.

Ella playing with her skirt when she happy and scared.

KIT'S SMILE.

I wish we saw more of the purple in the ballgown.

I love that Ella's descent had Lavender's Blue and the dance has Once Upon A Dream in the score.

The Captain HAD to have told Kit that the Grand Duke already promised him to Chelina. And who gave him the right to do that anyway?

Kit's stammering.

Ella's gasp when he takes her waist and the way she looks at him is like the signature Lily shot. They did the same thing in War & Peace.

"They're all looking at you. Believe me they're all looking at YOU".

The one part in the dance where they kinda flap their arms up and down reminds me of a butterfly and idk why.

Dancing wearing a sword had to be tough. Especially when your partner's in a crinoline and a heavy ass dress. Props to Richard.

Lily tripping at one point during the dance.

Even Chelina loves Ella let's be real here.

Why is there so much telling people to shut up in this movie???

WE GOTTA FACE FACTS HERE, KIT AND ELLA ARE EVEN BETTER AND MORE LOVING PARENTS THAN THEIR OWN WERE.

I love the secret garden scene so much.

When Kit puts the shoe on her foot... Why is that like 😏😏. I hate feet. Why is that breathtakingly romantic??

Why do they always hesitate? GO AFTER HER IMMEDIATELY DAMN IT.

The crier's aids when he hits his head on the stairs.

Ella's interaction with the king.

Kit you're so slow. She's in glass heels and a crinoline and she still outran you.

DISNEY I WANT A DIRECTOR'S CUT OF THE FILM WITH ALL THE DELETED SCENES PUT BACK IN. I NEED KIT SAYING THE LADY ISN'T HERE TO DEFEND HERSELF.

They honestly don't see the footman using his coat tails to lower the portcullis??

Anastasia actually seemed pretty nice to Ella after the ball? Saying she looked cheerful and patting her arm? But then again, we really only see Tremaine and Drisella ripping the dress soooo?

ELLA YOU CAN'T KEEP A SECRET TO SAVE YOUR LIFE.

Girl you need a better hiding place than under the floorboards.

But like the music in the attic after the ball is so sweet???

KIT AND HIS FATHER. THANK YOU FOR LETTING HIM CRY AND SAY I LOVE YOU.

Also like... Notice that Tremaine's Just so to Ella's father was really patronizing and condescending. Ella's to Kit was insecure and uncertain. But the king's to Kit was proud.

At least Kit's not dumb. He's meet this girl multiple times. He don't need a shoe to tell him it's her.

WHY RIP THE ORIGAMI BUTTERFLY THOUGH.

Ella was full on ready to die in that attic to save Kit.

Why do all they guys' pants fit really well except Stellan's? His are loose and baggy.

Y'all know this girl is young and blonde wtf.

Also, fun fact. The girl that asks the Captain if she can try the other foot is Mimi Ndiweni. She played Fringilla in The Witcher on Netflix.

The Grand Duke turning away from the old lady, but the Captain letting her yet the slipper on anyway. 🥺

I want to know where in the line Kit was hiding.

Also how many takes they had to do of Sophie and Holliday trying the slipper on. Cause I wouldn't have been able to do it without laughing. Especially at Holliday's face.

Like... Even if the plan had gone down the way the Grand Duke and Tremaine wanted, I don't see him keeping his word to make her a counted and get good marriages for Anastasia and Drisella.

"YOU HAVE NEVER BEEN AND YOU NEVER WILL BE MY MOTHER".🗣️🗣️

Ella and Kit is my favorite score in the whole movie.

You know, the girls actually seen happy for Ella. Especially Anastasia. Her and Ella getting along better like in Dreams Come True is canon ok.

NEVER GONNA GET OVER KIT AND ELLA WEARING THEIR PARENTS' RINGS.

I love Ella's wedding gown.

Where did they get all those flowers in the winter though 😂

[jng-animation]

BA1b.Narratology - 15/1/20

This weeks lecture was on he topic of ‘Fairy Tales’. This lecture was based around one of our essay questions for this unit: ‘Make a Proppian analysis of an animated fairy tale...’ which will heavily rely on today's lecture and next week’s seminar in particular. 

We were first presented with the question ‘what is a fairy tale?’, working with the people sat next to us we had to try define ‘fairy tale’ as well as make a list of examples, within 5 minutes. The definition we had came up was along the lines of: ‘a tale containing a magic element, with the intent of warning the reader of its message.’ We knew fairy tales had magic components to them, but we also believed they were used for warning their readers, or the people they were read too (usually children) of their message behind them.

The definition if a fairy tale according to the Encyclopedia Britannica is:

‘a wonder tale involving marvellous elements and occurrences, through not necessarily about fairies.’

So we weren’t far off. However, the lecturer proposed that this could also be a description of animation as well, as animation can achieve most wondrous stories, with marvellous elements that most mediums cannot.

We linked this definition of fairy tale to Vladimir Propp’s (a famous Russian Folklorist) idea of what a fairy tale is:

‘[A fairy] tale may be termed any development proceeding from villainy (A) or a lack (a) through intermediary functions to marriage (W*) or to other functions employed as a denouement’ (1968, p92).

Now this is all very confusing as we haven’t cleared up who Vladimir Propp is, nor have we looked at his ‘analysis’ yet. So this will all become clearer within the next week.

We then moved on to the concept of ‘happy endings’, in which most (not all) fairy tales achieve at the final stages of their narrative, but the meaning of ‘happy’ equates more to ‘justice is served’. An example we were given was in the Grimm’s Snow White (The Grimm Brother’s adaptation to the fairy tale) the stepmother is forced to dance to her death in red-hot iron slippers fresh from the fire... in which this is considered a happy ending, but more shows that justice is served.

After this, we looked into the origins of ‘fairy tales’, starting with the words: ‘Märchen’ and ‘Kunstmärchen’ each translating to fairy tale, however ‘Kunstmärchen’ defines more closely to ‘literary’ or ‘arty’ fairy tale. Märchen are genuine oral folk tales, so spoken between people, usually being undatable and completely anonymous. These pre-date any written records and they’re hundreds perhaps even thousands of years old. However, they are collected by people, most notably the ‘Grimm Brothers’.

Kunstmärchen are signed and dated by their authors, many of them being produced within the 19th century e.g. The Happy Prince (1888, Oscar Wilde) and The Little Mermaid (1837, Hans Christian Andersen).

Yet all fairy tales contain ‘serious world’ meanings, using symbolism to represent hidden meanings and messages. Marina Warner noted that fairy tales are told in ‘a language of the psyche’: the ‘forests and palaces, snow, glass and apples’ have a symbolic purpose and contain ‘concealed truths’. All of these aspects are used to deal with darker topics in a lighthearted but cautionary manner. Warner explains this makes fairy tales a ‘tool’ to help us ‘learn how to cope with the tests life presents us with’. Added to this, they present important social purpose too, showing the clear polarity between good and evil, acting as a warning of what might happen if you stray from ‘the right path’. This being said, fairy tales are usually about ordinary people, without names, allowing everyone to have hope and optimism.

Moving on from this, we started to look at the some of the darker elements of fairy tales, and why some people would attempt to protect their children from the messages behind them:

- Blood and gore

- Sex

 Peculiar morals...

We looked at various different examples of fairy tales in including visible elements referencing to these topic, mainly folklore and movies, e.g. Bluebeard, created by Charles Perrault tells the tale of a woman who marries a serial killer! As well as the Grimm’s version of Cinderella, her stepsisters slice all their toes off to fit into the slipper. Aside from Disney’s take on fairy tales in a lighthearted and child-friendly, some movies follow through with more of a dark heart, for example: Pan’s Labyrinth directed by Guillermo del Toro, which contains dark and detailed visuals, that accompany its nightmare fairy tale environments and atmosphere.

We finished off this lecture by looking at how animation is the perfect medium for fairy tales, and how ‘metamorphosis defines the fairy tale’ (Marina Warner, 1994).

‘Metamorphosis is the ability for an image to literally change into another completely different image’ (Wells, 1998)

Animation (unlike live action) allowed the ‘construction of a completely fabricated fantasy space’ (North, 2009). The extent to the emphasis, exaggeration and emotion that animation can imbue into stories, perfectly combines with fairy tales to allow for the imagination’s spectacular visions to run true to its original events.

I liked this lecture as it allowed for a lot of unseen territory for me personally to come into light.

[krisrampersad]

Celebrating Jamettry - the Sacred and the Sacrilegious

Jam-ett-ree Vulgar/Slang Trade of a -

Alt Jah-mee-tree – point from which the universe emanates; equity; golden ratio Literarily by Dr Kris

Dear Lizzy,

You coming to meh jamettry party? Consider this your invite eh. I going get a distinction in meh post graduate degree in jamettry: the synergy of ying and yang, unification of the arts and sciences, centrepoint of the golden mean and meanness.

Since plenty people asking about what is jamettry, although I in hibernation trying to finish my Tale of Murder, Madness and the Love of Words like that Professor who turn Madman – you might know him as the Surgeon of Crowthorne, Liz. He give the Oxford Dictionary 10,000 words with definitions and meanings, I writing a definition here so although my friend didn’t reach out to me, the people go know and not keep bothering me with emails and phone calls to do a Literarily by Dr Kris for the word jamettry. This is only one percent of my 100,000 entries into Literarily. I know you have some influence with your pardner, Britannica and have friends at Oxford who make the English Dictionary so help me get it in there nah while I finish these Letters. Ent we is Famalee and good friends too, gyul? Do me a lil favour, nah.

As you know, Liz, I have for long been an avid student, even a proponent of the art and science, of jamettry, so you, Britannica and the OED could say I am an expert in this jamettry art that is as ancient as the oldest profession in the world.

It is not only today I studying jammetry so I am well qualified to add Jamettry to Literarily, my compendium of words and their meanings through classical to now times. Some was published in the Guardian and in Demokrissy and as evidence of that Panama paper trail I sending you some of these Literarily (See image this page). I gone for higher/hire now, so talk to Britannica and the OED for me nah, you could tell them we is good friends. I see they just admit the ‘c’ word Ma say she doh ever want to hear me use so you go and find it in the OED along with c-tish, and c-ed endings. They describe it as vulgar/slang for ‘a woman’s genitals or ‘an unpleasant or stupid person’ so they wouldn’t have any problems adding jamettry - which is also a vulgar slang word associated with a woman’s genitals and its functions.

And while you at it, I have a whole series of ‘C’ monologues (C because Ma say doh use THAT word!) They get banned from the newspapers, because although I didn’t use that word, people say too much jamettry in the the explanations and definitions of social actions that they ’fraid would enlighten the universe about golden ratio and ration, meanness and mean, how to stay in divine balance and not get involved in thiefery and thuggery and corruption and thing and to come out of they ignorance and sycophancy (Sycofancee Entry # 5783 in Literarily). So the C Monologues get ban by the powers that be when somebody call they pardner like how they ban all them books across the world, like the Bible and the Quran, Grimm’s Fairy Tales, Alice in Wonderland and Animal Farm - all them nice nice storybooks by Hemmingway and Chaucer and Dr Seuss and like how my books ban in some place that call themselves university.

I make a full list of them banned books I have in meh library, Liz, so you be the judge or take it to the Privy Council and let’s see if that is any reason for anybody to want to raid and censor meh library, meh blog, meh Facebook; to be pawing and poaching through meh Instagram and Twitter; hack meh website; make threatening phone calls, pelt stones, smash meh face, shoot at meh car and house… You be the judge Liz. That is only the list that get banned, eh, I have plenty more books they might as well ban as nobody reading anyway. I sure you have some of them in Buckingham Palace too and check the British Library, I put some there too. You might want to keep them under lock and key before you little Lizzie granddaughter and Master George get their hands on them. They say these books could corrupt the mind of children, just like all this jamettry corrupt the mind of adults and public officials and make we private sector so enterprising. (See definition of Enterprising in Literarily by Dr Kris, entry #547). So I sending you the list banned in different places (see below) and I sending you here the Literarily, on jammetry. Tell Britannica and OED that I already do all the research on cont-texts and everything right here, so they could cite as the source ‘Literarily by Dr Kris’ in Demokrissy.

Jamettry Meanings & Definitions from Literarily by Dr Kris

1. Noun. Vulgar/Slang. Pronunciation Jam-ett-ree. The trade of a jamette. From Jamette: promiscuous (wo)man. - As illustrated in Denise Belfon calypso, Jamette, 2002 (See below).

Origin: Jamettry is as ancient as the oldest profession in the world.

2.Jamettry/Geometry: Pronunciation Jah-mee-tree. Corruption/colloquial pronunciation of geometry: Branch of mathematics. Associated with the way parts of an object fit together involving deduction of properties, measurement, relationships of points, lines, angles, figures. Assessment of shape, size, relative position of figures, and the properties of space.

The single point from which all lines, angles, relationships of the universe emanate and can be measured to assess and assert balance, harmony, unity in diversity, divine proportions, golden ratio.

3.Abusive term: Term of verbal violence, usually against women. Judgmental of (wo)man’s character. Implies sexually immoral.

Connotative Cont-ext: Used to assert moral/sexual superiority. To cast aspersion on character. 

(Denotes/suggests) insecurity/inferiority complex, bullying mentality. Attitude towards opposite sex when insecure about sexual or other competencies such as how to run a country or a government or how to respond to media.     

4.In Now Times: Further additional meanings - Related to:

i. Jami-it: To grind on sensually. To wine on suggestively. ‘Jus hold Dem & Wok Dem’!

ii.Jamming The art of mindless disassociation from social reality as in ‘We Jamming Still’;

iii. Hooliganism: See blog, ‘Jus’ Call Me Cooligan’ #Demokrissy.

5.  Additional Applications

a. Loss of objective understanding of unity in diversity; of the way the parts of an object fit together by manipulating properties, measurements, distorting angles, points, lines, accentuating relationships with public figures in exploitative relation to their community/society/country

b. Association of government, business and other sectors to plunder and pilfer resources and properties of any shape, sizes generally utilizing relations to figures in positions of authority in a manner deduced to be corrupt. (As illustrated in David Rudder’s 1988 calypso, Panama, see below)  

c. Illegal activity conducted in full view of the public, fully and publicly sanctioned by the authorities and justifiable in law;

d. May invoke verbal or physical abuse, censorship, raids on offices when exposed, against anyone attempting to investigate, explore or uncover jamettry;

e. To maintain status quo of one percent versus the rest: ie. To keep ‘the remainder’ in state of impoverishment and dependence and dotish defence of indefensible; golden mean vs meanness.

f. Discordance between payments and receipt of goods or income and supply of goods ie distortion of angles, processes, principles of business, manipulation and skewing of divine proportions; rationingof t he golden ratio.

g. A society so engrossed with jamming that it has forgotten how to take stock of itself and demand accountability from those it assigns mandate to serve.

h. Friendly associations between government and business that influence and impact on the nature of business transactions between state agencies and its suppliers.

i. Term used to stimulate jamming – ie mindless forgetfulness so as to deflect from focus on issues of the day as ‘in a pappyshow land where nearly everything is a pappyshow’ (See David Rudder, Panama below)

Jamettry: Attribution: KrisRampersad: LinkedIn/Instagram/Pinterest/YouTube/Demokrissy

So Liz gyul, you see why I too humming, the tune of the day:

Bring out the Jamette inna meh oh oh oh oh

Bring out the Jamette inna meh oh oh oh oh

With Denise Belfon I adding the angles of the kankalang in relation to the music of the spheres that tangential to the raging winds and waves and uproar outdoors, the violence, the disrespect, the slaughter of men, women and children and the rot and chaos all around so you, me, we could sing along:

Bring out the Jamette inna meh oh oh oh oh

Bring out the Jamette inna meh oh oh oh oh

   Jamettry in meh school bag future

To give you some cont-exts, Liz, because I know Britannica and the OED going ask, let me go back to the beginning, Liz, the source and origin.

On the first day of high school, Ma remind me that she put the jamettry in meh school bag.

“Use it well,” she say, putting me in the car with a big sticker that say ‘Licensed for Five Passengers’ though the car cram with ten and might pick up others heading to the Tong.

Ma exudes all the anxiety and expectation on what may lie ahead for my future, as she stands, staring at the smoke trail of the car long after it disappears around the corner and down the hill, trying to find a whiff in the air if here is a dactar or a laayaa in the making. (See definitions in Literarily. Entrees #265 and # 777, respectively).

I will disappoint her, Liz, in that respect because in truth, it was not dactaring or laayaing I would study, as I would focus my time on the study of jammetry. Since there is a lot of jammetry in storybooks, Ma didn’t know that the first thing I plan to do is to join the Princes Town library.

As soon as the school bell ring to say school finish that first day, I walk up the hill, through the shortcut by Knolly’s Recreation Grounds. It name for your Acting Governor, Sir Courtney Knollys, who open a few things including the Knolly’s Tunnel in Tabaquite when the Governor away and leave he to act, so they name these things after him like Hollywood name things after actors. Later they will rename it Yolande Pompey Recreation Ground after some fellah who was the first oxymoron light heavyweight boxer to fight in an international ring. Although he never win a world title, we like to let people here know we have fighters like all yuh, Liz. We is real badjohns and we could knock out all yuh colonial signs with we boxing because if you remember yuh ban we real badjohns, the stickfighters, who could buss plenty heads. So down came the Knolly’s sign and name and up went the oxy-moron light heavyweight into we Sports Hall of Fame! Just so too, we go knock down the Queen Street sign you put up in Port of Spain and put we own Penny who is also a Queen, not just of a Commonwealth, but of a Universe! Take that Liz. Jamettry woking for we!

As soon as the school bell ring, I pelt out, through the short cut and up the hill on meh way to the library, pass the signboard for Knolly’s Rec. Scrawled at the bottom of the sign is a reminder that the grounds governed by the Recreation Grounds and Pastures Act Chapter 41:01, Laws of Trinidad And Tobago, Act 10 of 1909.

I dodge a corkball from the guys playing cricket on one end of the field, keeping meh eye on the football players, too, although I think that law say ‘No person shall play cricket, football, rounders, or other games dangerous to young children, in any recreation ground.’ But who care ’bout laws here, eh – jamettry everywhere! We would have plenty football and cricket match there, and then one day, irregardless (entry #4677 in Literarily) of the law, they will name the pavilion there after a cricketer. Talk ’bout jamettry!

Liz, that make me wonder if there is a law against reading story books as Ma and Pa had ban me from reading storybooks like Enid Blyton with all them drawings and pictures. They say it just fill up meh head with mumbo jumbo airy-fairy nonsense and I should be reading to become a dactar or a laayar. It is okay to read literature books if they on the school book list, and now I had a loophole if I say I borrow it from the library – always a way to beat the system! I learning jamettry well! You would be proud like Ma, Liz.

Shillingford – the district vagrant – is running around the Knolly’s-soon-to-be renamed Yolande Pompey field, as we would see him doing every evening when the schoolbell ring. The field shouldda really be named after Shillingford because he so exemplify all we national ambitions. He was the brightest boy in he years in the same school I just starting and watching him I shouldda see how the future in my schoolbag with the jamettry. Shillingford so bright that we place couldn’t findda place for him so he gone mad, yes, and so he get enterprising begging for a shilling here and a shilling there so he could live as he wish without working in a land flowing with oil and he had plenty time to run round and round the field in celebration of his emancipation and freedom as I too would one day. People say he mad, and a vagrant – just like that Professor and a Madman who help write the OED – he too bright. I find out ’bout him when I was researching the school history for the school magazine, Dedicated to Excellence. I shouldda see the signs Liz, because he was one of the school best example of Excellence, Par Excellence, but I would lorn good, just how I lorn jamettry real good. It in meh future and in meh schoolbag, as the Doc ruling the country say.

Is my first day, so I keep Shillingford in the corner of my eye in case he pounce, as I labor up the hill and onto the Naparima Mayaro Road, towards Princes Town. The library just outside the Town named for you grandfather Liz. The taxi stand inside the Tong, so I tell meh brother with the taxi that I will wait for him when he heading back home at the corner by the library so the police wouldn’t stop him for overloading more than ten in he ‘licenced for five passengers taxi’. Because it only had one or two taxis going into the village he just pick-up everybody he see on the way who need a ride, Liz. The village people didn’t mind, because all ah we is one. We live in unity in diversity in the finest principles of universal harmony that jamettry professes. No meanness. We share everything according to the golden ration in divine proportions. He didn’t finish wok till late so it give me good time to stay in the library until it close.

Liz girl, I start to lorn all about jammetry, from the story books and poetry available. By the time I graduate I could see why Ma and Pa think storybook full of jamettry, oui. Just look at meh list of banned books and you go see how much jamettry in there: Fifty Shades of Jamettry and more: The Scarlett Letter, Fanny Hill, Harry Potter, Beloved by Toni Morrison, Gone With The Wind…

Jamette. Jamettish. Jamettry of Poetry

Liz, I start to read poetry with gusto – the real jamettry poetry, like Kubla Khan by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (See Poem below) that I read and I sure you read it too. I real spend time on that, eh, analyzing the ‘stately pleasure domes’ and ‘cavern measureless to man’ and ‘deep romantic chasm’, ‘sinuous rills’ and then climaxing ‘in fast thick pants were breathing/A mighty fountain momently was forced…’ That aint sound like jamettry to you Liz? Coleridge write in Kubla Khan about,

 ‘Woman wailing for her demon lover’.

It sound just like the chorus from that Denise Belfon’s song, Jamette, ent?

Bring out the Jamette inna meh oh oh oh oh

Bring out the Jamette inna meh oh oh oh oh

Coleridge in Kubla Khan decree:

And from this chasm, with ceaseless turmoil seething,

As if this earth in fast thick pants were breathing,

A mighty fountain momently was forced.

  Denise Belfon sing in Jamette:

I need a man dat hard dat hard/To never treat meh bad real bad

When he go I must feel sad real sad/When he come I must feel glad

In fact Belfon song sound no different from that poem with its ‘stately pleasure domes’ and she too, like the Damsel, wailing:

I need a man who's hype who's hype

to stand up like a pipe a pipe

De banana must be ripe be ripe

I will stop there for now, in case they want to buss meh mouth and censor meh analyses for getting too jamettry, Liz. Inbox eh nah, and I will send you the full comparative analysis of Denise Belfon Jamette and Samuel Taylor Coleridge Kubla Khan.

Jamettry, Jamette, Jam-it and We Jamming Still culture cont-exts

There is a lot of other Jamette music filling the spheres around that time, Sparrow, and Kitchener, and David Rudder and Super Blue, plenty plenty singing all kindda Jamette woman, Bacchanal Woman, Mae Mae, Ethel, Bethel and Skettel…

I lorn well about the Jamette culture that grow out of the barrack yards from which all this comes, how it was frowned on by the snobby nose upper classes as lewd and crude but celebrated in the protest literature of the 1930s. Jamettry was a way to rebel against oppression, exploitation and violence. The proponents of what was being called the Literature of the Yard were the likes of the early nationalists/writers like CLR James, and Alfred Mendes, Albert Gomes and Seepersad Naipaul adding his own two-piece with his Daisy chumkaying through The Gurudeva Tales – you have to read meh book Finding A Place to find out more about that time. Rikki Jai will later tell the story of his Sumintra exhibiting the same kind of jamettry as Belfon and she pardners Destra and Allison, and Draupatie too coaxing Bissessar into she jamettry.

You know, Liz, by the time you had over to we to be freeto practice we jamettry, jamettry was already an important part of the lexicography in the intellectual construction of nationhood. Nation-language defined by Edward Kamau Brathwaite (Barbados) developed in conjunction with jamette folk culture in the barrack yards that came to be celebrated at Carnival time. Liz, you start the barrack yard housing development style so I don’t have to tell you that barrack yard people live close close together folking up the place so of course everybody inside everybody business, and everybody could spot jamettry in everybody else that now inside every housing development scheme you could think of. It make for good bacchanal, Liz, and political fork-tongue speech.

Carnival Jamette bands was jamettry Par Excellance in protest of and in imitation of the massas of the French Creole plantocracy and other classes. I would see for myself, covering J’Ouvert later, the doh-kay-damn attitude and behaviour, pouring onto the Savannah Street and stage.

Now that is freedom! I couldn’t wait to join! My particular favourite is the Dame Lorraines sporting and wiggling gi-normous jamette parts stuffed up butt, hips and breasts – there is hope for me yet Liz. That’s where the likes of Nikki Maharaj Minaj get it from, in case anyone wondering. She music is a prideful product of this jamettry, packaged for exportation.

The unsuspecting celebrants maybe did not know that when they think they laughing at the upper echelons one percent - who put on masked balls wearing costumes like Dame Lorraines, in imitation of their maids - they were really laughing at their massa laughing at themselves eh. Nobody sure who the jokes on who, but everybody laughing and having a goodtime. Pure jamettry. And we jamming still!

I became an aspirant, so by the time Belfon sing that song, me too could chip along in full fervor, now deep into meh education about the art of jamettry:

Bring out the Jamette inna meh oh oh oh oh

Bring out the Jamette inna meh oh oh oh oh

Although me aint no feminist, I applaud the Jamettry long-celebrated by feminists too, as an indication of women taking charge of their own destiny, they bodies, their sexuality, the independent spirit and rebellion against oppressive patriarchy with the roots in the complex colonial plantation system with its intertwining of race, class and wealth stratifications: all that really mean mean men who like to abuse and take the golden glow from women and make them blue black with hard slap and blue by calling them jamette and thing….blue in every colour and pigment.

Though most of the intellectualising fall short of telling anybody about the damage that all this causing, making people like sycophants, lapping up and internalising and blindly replicating the massahood culture of dominance, exploitation and oppression so they even calling themselves and everybody else jamette because people tell them they is jamette long time so they say let’s celebrate we jamettry.

I join in too, yes. In the struggle to end violence against women, I talk to and interview plenty women, telling about how they man call them jamette to put them dong, and about verbal and other abuse to degrade them and make them feel small. Plenty women in high and low places tell me how, when men feeling they not as bright as them and cannot respond on equal footing to any argument, they man would call them jamette and other names so they go shut up.

We join-up to get the government to sign the United Nations Convention on the Discrimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women and in UNESCO trying to make sure them gender-sensitive things included in other culture conventions too.

In all of this, I didn’t give up meh own jamettry. I coming up to be an expert, for sure.

Monumental Jamettry in heritage 

In London and Paris there was plenty pus-pusuring (Pus-pus refer Literarily entry #893) and whispering in drawing rooms about jamettry. So I gone there to advance meh studies in jamettry and get some hard slap for doing so, too, because they doh want  to lorn bout they own jamettr they think nobody else should – typical jamette-man.  

In Victor Hugo’s Les Miserables,

With all that, Paris is a good soul. It accepts everything right royally; it is not too particular about its Venus; its Callipyge is Hottentot; if it but laughs it pardons, ugliness makes it merry….

A Hottentot cannot be changed into a Roman outline

In Thackeray’s Vanity Fair, more whispering:

"Marry that mulatto woman?" George said, pulling up his shirt-collars. "I don't like the colour, sir. Ask the black that sweeps opposite Fleet Market, sir. I'm not going to marry a Hottentot Venus."

I get curious about this Hottentot Venus who sound like she is a jamettry hottie like Belfon Saucy Wow!

shake your body around, like you's a blender

bend down and touch the ground and mek dem holler

for de jammette, de jammette, de jammette

I study she a lil bit, and even follow the trail to the British Museum and the Musee de l’Homme. While I suppose to be studying journalism in Cambridge I take a weekend to study jamettry in London and Paris – and what better place to lorn about jamettry than in Paris eh?

This Venus Hottentot was not no play act. She was real woman. When she was living, she was paraded around London and Paris and people pay to see she or to poke she big behind and other jamette parts. She was dead at age 26 and even when she dead, she parts was put on display in the museum. She was used in studies of the human anatomy to support stereotyping and racial applications of Darwin’s theory of origin of the species and the theory of natural selection.

I join my friends lobbying for the return of her parts for a respectful burial in her homeplace in South Africa which was finally done in 2002, the same year Saucy Wow and all ah we singing,

Bring out the Jamette inna meh oh oh oh oh

Bring out the Jamette inna meh oh oh oh oh

Saucy Wow itself! This Venus Hottentot, aka Sarah Baartman, who endure the epitome of the worst kinds of humiliations to which women have ever been subjected was the image of images of the jamette women that the French planter class women use to dress up like at their masked balls, the same kindda masked balls they had in Port of Spain too – frowning upon jamettry and mocking it so they dress up like that. In turn, to mock the uppity French massas, the maids dress up like their mistress who dress like the jamette they call Hottentot. So the maids thinking they mocking the massas when the massas were mocking the maids – really a whole lot of jamettry all around.

In Trinidad, they call this Hottentot figure Dame Lorraine, the quintessential jamettry character of Traditional Mas in the Trinidad Carnival, and I hoping to be one and wave a jamette flag for me lovely nation.

It is the most succinct example of how we have internalized colonial stereotyping and replicate it without knowledge of implications and meanings and symbolic representations that have resulted in the entrenchment of racism and prejudicial attitudes and behaviour. Pure jamettry!

I guess that’s why reading so painful because the truth not nice an we just want to jump and wine and have a good time everybody say the word, jamettry, and that’s why they threaten to buss yuh head and damage yuh if you read too much because it okay to have no censure for your jamettry, and censor you learning nah. Though all them long list of books that all these governments ban people still reading them, ent?

While you think about that, I getting my Panama Papers ready because like David Rudder I tell Mama I going to Panama, on the trail of the golden ration of Paradise in El Dorado….

Jamettry: Holy Dread! Drinking Honey/Mountain Dew to enter Paradise

Inspired by Kubla Khan, I get a brainwave that I could make good use of me jamettry for distraction from that hard and naked truths so I pull out the jamettry tool box Ma put in meh school bag.

The tin metal box is the same colour like my freshly starched uniform - navy blue skirt and white shirt - Ma iron it good after she sew it on she brand new sleek, sexy looking Singer sewing machine that she save up and buy from she lil market gardening and sewing for people.

It is a second-hand jamettry set but this jamettry really look like it pass through many many hands and might even be as old as the oldest profession in the world - the rubber missing, the wooden tips unsharpened, the nibs rusting, the face scratch-up…

You could still recognize even with the scratches, the words in white against navy blue background, "Oxford Mathematical Instruments complete and accurate Helix”. So now I had the tools to wok hard to find the double helix to unlock the secret of this jamettry DNA.

It make me take meh head outta story book long enough to look at the tools in the box. Inside the scratch-up goldy-silver tin case is a compass with one long leg and one short leg with a screw hole. Next to this had some transparent flat plastic with writings on them. I would learn that I should call the two plastic triangles set squares though I can’t figure out why because they look to all intents and purposes like triangles not squares. But that is scientific logic against creative dreaming, I guess. There is a straight ruler and one that look like a semi-circle with markings on it that I would learn is a protractor, and there is a stencil with the alphabet in capital and common letters.

I look at the set meh new friend Debbie, sitting next to me, have. It brand new, no scratches, and it have a brand new sharpener, eraser, and lead pencils too. I borrow Debbie sharpener to sharpen my long pencil. I break it in two and put the jagged edge part in the compass hole and screw it on. I save the other part with the eraser to come in handy.

Liz, in all the years of friendship although we share plenty things, she never once give me a contract or me she, and we still friends, eh. Debbie - who never let anybody know, except one day we talking and she tell me she related to Sir Solomon Hochoy who you appoint as we last Governor, Liz - had none of the airs of the any of the plantocracy. She is no one percent, she part ah the majority. Is unity in diversity and all ah we living as one.

I attach the pencil on the compass, stick the long point on the page and by rotating the pencil was making a perfect circle. This is quite an accomplishment for me whose every attempt at a straight line always turn into squiggles and curls. I couldn’t even baylay roti round good so it could fit on the chowki and the tawa, much less draw a circle (refer to Literarily entries #7561-5). Most time it come out looking almost like a map of Trinidad - the roti and the circle. Doh laugh nah gyul. The ruler and the stencil would help my cause of writing my name and subject on the covers of my book, too. Jamettry Par Excellence! 

Liz, just as I was getting use to experimenting and using meh jamettry, they stop me in meh track. They tell me that all I would do now is dabble and to really use meh jamettry, I have to take Applied Maths and Applied Physics.

I puzzled. Maybe the math I lorning all this time is not to apply to anything?  Maybe that’s how people who graduate from this place don’t know how about applying maths and using they jamettry to understand the associations and relationships between angles, and sizes and shapes, to structure and form and how one thing could affect other parts of the universe based on the tangential relationships in the divine proportion of the golden ration, as you would know if you use you whole jamettry Liz.

If they know how to use all the parts of the jamettry they would know how to do sums better, as I tell meh pardner the contracter son, who sit next to me the next year, because Debbie place in a next seat. He inherit he father company but he never give me a contract, Liz, and we is still friends.

Since he in the private sector and maybe know how them does deal, I have a mind to ask him about divine proportion and golden ration which as a business man he must know we in the same class together and we could finish that Conversation on the question that nobody ask:

If a Kaiser Ball – that is the head huncho of balls - is one dollar, how much Kaiser Balls you should get if you pay one hundred million dollars, how much tanks that would fill, and how much you would have left to bank in Panama after you get your Panama Papers and buy a DC-9 and build two towers in Canada when you convert that to United States green bucks dollars (see contexts, David Rudder calypso, Panama, below Liz, for easy reference).

And we could even talk about what angle I should take on this thing that puzzling all ah we: If all of we is one famalee and one percent have ninety-nine percent of everything, how much that leave for the other remainder of the ninety-nine percent; and if the one percent pay off the one billion dollar debt of one State Enterprise how much it would leave to free-up all ah we to develop we jamettry since as one famalee all ah we have the same DNA and double Helix jamettry set. All these things puzzling me to ask meh pardner in the public and not so public sectors.

Ah tempted eh, Liz, when they trying to bully me to take this advanced maths and physics where I they say I could really use meh jamettry. They ask me to choose, but TELL me to do Science because I bright, I already gearing up to pursue professional jamettry so I exercise meh democratic rights and choose the Arts so I could continue to read story books and full meh head with mumbo jumbo airy fairy nonsense on the path to my own version of professional jamettry.

All this time I find a loophole in the system. Because jammetry is all about twists and turns and angles and measurements I figure I would try to put me jammetry to use on Kubla Khan for good measure. I would apply maths and physics anyway to meh jamettry poetry.

Jamettry Flowers to Life

Is Jamettry that help me put the missing parts of the world story, together, Liz. From the single point of where the compass sticking on the paper, I make this multi-petalled flowers and then copy them on to cloth to make embroidery and string art.

I later learn that you call it the Flower of Life. That is the same flower Dan Brown write about in the Da Vinci Code, that get people vex and some ah them ban it in some places too.

I already know this flower of life, Liz, not from the Da Vinci Code and western literature and art and architecture and monuments, with the triangle that there was identified as the Masonic symbol. Not from Milton Paradise Lost which I could also compare with Kubla Khan Paradise though one is a big thick book-poem and one is a couple pages.

As I learn to use my compass and the protractor and ruler and the squares that look like triangles from meh jamettry set, not just the Flower of Life taking shape. But triangles and pyramids and pentagons and hexagons, and circles within circles and circles, all emanating from this single static point of my compass.

Jamettry Angles, Tangents, Twists & Turns of Seething Chasms

Liz, like a damsel with a dulcimer, I start to make the music of the sphers, latitude and longitude and everything. I check the angles of the ‘deep romantic chasm which slanted/Down the green, the circumference of domes, towers; the heights of rills and Mount Abora; the breadths of walls. For that I study plenty of your castles, Liz.

I project measurements for the ‘caverns measureless to man,’ ‘five miles’ and the ‘twice five miles’ on the dimensions to stately pleasure-domes’, ‘walls and towers.’

I calculate the movements and pace of the ‘earth fast think pants’, ‘half-intermittedly’, ‘fragments vaulted’, ‘meandering mazy motion’, ‘dancing rocks’...

I estimate the time factors in ‘ceaseless’, ‘forests ancient as the hills, ‘momently,’ ‘half-intermittedly’…

I look at the spatial physical cont-exts in the natural environment and its elements water, air, earth: of the chasm, earth, hill, Mount, dale, grove, moon, sea, ocean, river, garden, cave, mound; and the built environment: fountain, dome, rill, tower, walls…

I circling Kubla Khan domes and gardens, and the one in the UNESCO yard, the patterns in monuments and landmarks which form the building blocks of everything around. It show how well constructed building blend art and nature, how point and angle related to form and structure and create order out of chaos. Jamettry on a solid foundation show how to make proper calculations of how much of what could fit into what and in what proportions. Jamettry aint nothing like corruption, Liz, that’s how, Coleridge and the Masonic Master Milton find they Paradise and Copernicus read the stars, and Da Vinci reconstruct the anatomy of Vesuvius Man and he abstract thing like a Mona Lisa smile in immaterial painting and in material architecture; like I find in Gaudi building he Templo de Sagrada Familia, and the Egyptians building their pyramids of Giza and the Mexicans theirs, and in Belfon and Rudder music. And all this time what I know about Fibonacci and Pythagoras and Phi/Pi and thing, eh? I use meh jamettry to analyze Kubla Khan.

I find the divine proportions and a golden ratio to synergise poetry analysis with Sciences and Arts Liz. Ma, and I hooe you too, proud! Apply geometrical calculations and relationships that show Fibonacci formula and Pythagoras theorum and Phi/Pi and all of them things I know nothing about because Arts is only about dream, nah. In this fragment of a dream, I get a whole new angle on analyzing poetry that I would apply to analyzing plenty monuments and artefacts and lost civilisations too, Liz. A whole new world of jamettry open up, oui!

From the sunless sea and lifeless ocean to Mount Arora I sure we could find the secrets to global warming and climate change too, eh, Liz. You think? This poetry full of imagery of all the heritage of sacred jamettry – ask Tromp - not that Trump, the Donald; Tromp - the one all you beat to take away Manhattan from the Dutch, then called New Amsterdam, and rename it New York! Jamettry rules!

With a lil help of some mountain dew made in the towers of your own sugar factory here, Liz, (For mountain Dew refer to entry #4852 in Literarily) like Coleridge and Kubla Khan, I come up with the formula of divine proportions for rationing honey dew, El Dorado, the Paradise everybody looking for!

Jamettry, the Sacred Geography 

It is then I realise that even before Ma put the jamettry made ‘complete and accurate’ by Helix Oxford Mathematical Instruments in meh school bag, it already in meh DNA. You want to know how?

One day we having puja, I aint start school yet. Ma ask me to help prepare the bedi. She running late for Sona Pundit – the same Pundit who would use this jammetry which somehow connected to astronomy to read meh Patra (but that is a next story for another time, Liz). I start with putting Hibiscus flour – not flower - all round the edge of the bedi, like I see him do once before. I was about to draw one big Aum and leave it there but he stop me.

‘This just like Aum,’ he say. ‘Start here, from this point, in the centre.’

Before even reading meh Patra, Sona Pundit show me my beginning and end too. Guiding my hand Sona Pundit show me how to start from the centre point and move outward. We draw a triangle with this point in the middle, and then start to draw other triangles on both sides and build them up like a pyramid, using the centre point he do one pyramid on his side and I do one on my side and they join. He say one side is the upperworld and the other is the underworld. I could see pentagons and hexagons jumping out at me. We add circles and inside the circles we add semicircles with stately pleasure dome peaks to look like lotus petals – the Flower of Life that my compass would later make.

On the single point at the centre of the bedi sona Pundit put the kalsa with a deeya and light it.

‘Bindu,’ he say. ‘That is the point from which all of the universe emanate. Bindu.’

‘You mean bindi?’ I ask. I small but I already questioning even big people like Sona Pundit. Is the jamette inna meh!

‘Bindu, yeah, like bindi,’ he say, looking at me like if I just discover the New World, Liz!

“Bindi, like Ma wearing?’ Ma come to sit to do puja and had put on she sindoor on the path in she hair and a bindi at the centre of she forehead.

‘Exactly,’ he say. ‘That point is bindu/bindi. The foundation of creation, mother, Ma, from which the whole universe, earth, emanates.’ I have more questions but he start the puja.

He hand Ma some flowers, and begin he long Aum, take out he bell and ring and blow long and hard on he conchshell to signify the puja start. All the questions on my lips gone silent as the sound move from the bedi out and out as far out in the world as anybody could hear.

I start lookin for bindi in everything: the point at which all creation natural and manmade, hold the universe in balance when everything has an equal share in divine proportions, the golden ratio, make for harmony, unity in diversity. Is what you might call the sacred feminine, Liz. Ma gave it a name when she give me the tools in meh school bag. Jamettry.

Liz, I find El Dorado. It really was dong in South.

David Rudder: Panama

Panama https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9l6s3joSKy0

(Lyrics by David Rudder, 1988)

Ay senor, you see any Trikidadians pass here

You must know them

Big fat men with plenty blue money in they pocket

You no see them senor? No man

Ayee eeeeaye aye

Aye they thief the money

Ayee eeeeaye aye

I find El Dorado

It really was dong in south

But it wasn’t Mexico that them was talking about

Them rich Trinidadians show me this whole El Dorado ting

They here living like lords, but they gone they live there like kings

As they get a lil money in they pocket

They hiding the kakada

And when you miss them scamp and them

They somewhere in Panama

So I I IIIII going to Panama

I got to go to Panama mama

What it is they have over there

Making Trini just gone clear

Some say that they gone with thousands

Some talking bout tens of thousands

I here they mention millions

And so they mention billions

I doh like ole talk so I talking a walk

Look I done buy duty free rum

Pardner, stamp meh passport

Panama here I come

Some say that they gone with thousands

Some talking bout tens of thousands

I here they mention millions

And for they pension millions…

Look, it had a big Chinee gentleman who I doh know he name

They say he was a big businessman and racing was he game

They even call him some kindda ambassador I really doh know

But in this pappyshow land nearly everything is a pappyshow

They say he had a riding pardner they call this pardner the worst

I have to finish the mauvais lang when I reach in the next verse

But meanwhile I I IIIII going to Panama

I got to go to Panama mama

What it is they have over there

Making Trini just gone clear

Some say that they gone with thousands

Some say that is tens of thousands

Them talking bout - millions

I hear they mention - billions

I doh like ole talk ah taking ah walk

Allyuh doh spoil meh fun

Here’s the ticket Panama here I come!

Thousands, thousands, millions, millions…

First of all they used to call him a hero

Now they say he is a son of a gun

They say before they coulda holla Johnny O

How de fellah run

How he life was wide like Moon River

More money than chip chip

But just so the young man make a turnabout and make this Panama trip

How he set up a halfway house in Miami and Canada

He look left and right then left again and then buss it to Panama

So I I IIIIIII going to Panama

I got to go to Panama mama

What it is they have over there

Making Trini just gone clear

Some say that they gone with thousands

Some say that is tens of thousands

Them talking bout - millions

Them talking bout what? - billions

I doh like ole talk you see ole talk jus chip up meh grey hair fine

So Lee Sing and all yuh warm up that DC-9

Warm it up marn warm up the DC-9

That is what I want to fly on

I doh want no L10-11

I want the DC-9

Is we taxpayers money buy that boy, we petro dollars

You hear meh? Warm it up!

This place they call Panama gotta be the hardest hardest

This place they call Panama harder than Trinidad

Them doh wine and march ‘round no Red House

Is molotov gun and thing

And they say the biggest man over dey is the biggest corruption king

And just to prove that Panama could beat we in bacchanal

Jimmy Carter went dey, they watch him in he face

And they take back dey damn Canal

So I I IIIII going to Panama I got to go to Panama mama

What it is they have over there

Making Trini just gone clear

Some say that they gone with thousands

Some say that is tens of thousands

Some talking bout being millions

Ah hear they mention billions

 I want a no smoke seat I doh eat meat

Now warm up the plane breda

On the runway we going by Noreiga

Some say that they gone with thousands

Some say that is tens of thousands

Some say that they mention millions

And they mention what…billions

Thief the money thief the money

Thief the money thief the money thief the money

They gone they gone

Thousands…millions…. 

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Yes... this is for all the J-A-M-M-E-T-T-E out there, not just woman, man too!

I need a man to come to come

No matter where yuh from yuh from

Could ah be blind or deaf and dumb and dumb

He need plenty not just some

Bring out de jammette inna meh, bring out de jammette inna meh oh oh oh oh

Bring out de jammette inna meh, bring out de jammette inna meh oh oh oh oh

I need a man who's hype who's hype

To stand up like a pipe a pipe

De banana must be ripe be ripe

And that's the only time

Bring out de jammette inna meh, bring out de jammette inna meh oh oh oh oh

Bring out de jammette inna meh, bring out de jammette inna me oh oh oh oh

Make dem whine to the ground and see you later

Twist and turn it around ‘cause we don't cater

Shake your body around, like you's a blender

Bend down and touch the ground and mek dem holler

For de jammette, de jammette, de jammette

sexy jammette, de jammette de jammette

Hotttie jammette, de jammette, de jammette

Saucy jammette, de jammette, de jammette

I need a man in shape in shape

Big and strong just like ah ape ah ape

Who don't stand up deh and gape and gape

Who eh ’fraid to go on tape

Bring out de jammette inna meh, bring out de jammette inna meh oh oh oh oh

Bring out de jammette inna meh, bring out de jammette inna meh oh oh oh oh

I need a man dat hard dat hard

To never treat meh bad real bad

When he go I must feel sad real sad

When he come I must feel glad

Bring out de jammette inna meh, bring out de jammette inna meh oh oh oh oh

Bring out de jammette inna meh, bring out de jammette inna meh oh oh oh oh

For de jammette, de jammette, de jammette

Sexy jammette, de jammette de jammette

Hottie jammette, de jammette, de jammette

Saucy jammette, de jammette, de jammette

Ha ha ha ha how yuh like dat? I like it too

De kindda man I want is de kindda man to bring out de

De Real me. Yuh get it?

Bring out de jammette inna meh

Bring out de jammette inna meh

Bring out de jammette inna meh

Bring out de jammette inna meh

For de jammette, de jammette, de jammette

Sexy jammette, de jammette de jammette

Hottie jammette, de jammette, de jammette

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Kubla Khan

Or, a vision in a dream. A Fragment.

By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

In Xanadu did Kubla Khan

A stately pleasure-dome decree:

Where Alph, the sacred river, ran

Through caverns measureless to man

Down to a sunless sea.

So twice five miles of fertile ground

With walls and towers were girdled round;

And there were gardens bright with sinuous rills,

Where blossomed many an incense-bearing tree;

And here were forests ancient as the hills,

Enfolding sunny spots of greenery.

But oh! that deep romantic chasm which slanted

Down the green hill athwart a cedarn cover!

A savage place! as holy and enchanted

As e’er beneath a waning moon was haunted

By woman wailing for her demon-lover!

And from this chasm, with ceaseless turmoil seething,

As if this earth in fast thick pants were breathing,

A mighty fountain momently was forced:

Amid whose swift half-intermitted burst

Huge fragments vaulted like rebounding hail,

Or chaffy grain beneath the thresher’s flail:

And mid these dancing rocks at once and ever

It flung up momently the sacred river.

Five miles meandering with a mazy motion

Through wood and dale the sacred river ran,

Then reached the caverns measureless to man,

And sank in tumult to a lifeless ocean;

And ’mid this tumult Kubla heard from far

Ancestral voices prophesying war!

The shadow of the dome of pleasure

Floated midway on the waves;

Where was heard the mingled measure

From the fountain and the caves.

It was a miracle of rare device,

A sunny pleasure-dome with caves of ice!

A damsel with a dulcimer

In a vision once I saw:

It was an Abyssinian maid

And on her dulcimer she played,

Singing of Mount Abora.

Could I revive within me

Her symphony and song,

To such a deep delight ’twould win me,

That with music loud and long,

I would build that dome in air,

That sunny dome! those caves of ice!

And all who heard should see them there,

And all should cry, Beware! Beware!

His flashing eyes, his floating hair!

Weave a circle round him thrice,

And close your eyes with holy dread

For he on honey-dew hath fed,

And drunk the milk of Paradise.

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Coming up next in Sleeping Beauty Spring:

This animated short from Brittanica's Fairy Tales from Around the World – the first adaptation I've found to include a variation on Perrault's second half of the story.

[dragonkeeper19600]

In my Youtube surfing of fairy tales, I found a lot of different versions of "Beauty and the Beast." (Including an anime from the 1980s, God help us.) I chose this one because it seemed the most concise while also including a lot of stuff the other versions left out. Plus, I really like the designs. Though, the animation could use some work.

Yes, this tale has taken many shapes over the years, fittingly enough about a story about how the trappings don't matter. It originally started off as a fairy tale to teach young French girls the benefits of arranged marriages. Uh huh. The most famous literary version and the version on which all future adaptions are based was written by Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont, who severely condensed the story, making it way less convoluted than it was (Apparently, originally the Beast and the Beauty were actually cousins? And part fairy? Yeah, that wasn't going to work.)

Out of all the short, animated versions I found, this is the one that was the least Stockholmy, and even this one is more Stockholmy than the Disney version. "Beauty and the Beast" is a really difficult story to tell because, technically, the Beauty is trapped in the castle and unable to leave. And she falls in love with her captor. And there's no one else around. And he tells her he'll die if she doesn't come back. Yeah. Stockholm.

Thoughts and Trivia:

I love how none of the characters in this story have names. It was bad enough in the Disney version when they writers realized they never named the Beast, but in this one the girl is just called Beauty. as in that's literally her name. In the original French story, she was referred to as "La Belle," which I guess translates to "The Beautiful One." Almost every other adaption I found just keeps calling her Beauty, except for one, which gives her the name, "Maria." Obviously, Disney went with the name, "Belle," because... yeah.

Another thing that strikes me about this tale is how minimalistic it is. The version we're all familiar with, the excellent Disney version, has a whole, huge cast of characters that are now synonomous with the name "Beauty and the Beast," but it looks like Disney made up all of them. There's no Gaston, no servants, no judgmental townsfolk. The Enchantress that placed the curse on the Beast only gets one line of mention toward the end. However, this version does include two characters not present in the Disney version, Beauty's sisters. Yeah, because where would fairy tales be without bitchy women?

The reason this mess starts in this version isn't because the father entered the castle, but because he picked a rose Beauty wanted, making the whole scenario start off with a rose. Disney played with this by having the keystone of the curse be a rose, in essence still keeping the rose as the item that started it all. Even so, the "Beast flips out because someone touches his rose" scene is still somewhat present in the Disney version, when Belle goes to the West Wing.

I know I've said this already, but I just love the designs in this video. Especially on the Beast. Every other version I've seen does some variant of "big animal with horns," but this... What the hell is that thing? It looks like a stretched-out gargoyle with EVA shoulders. It's freaky as hell! I love it!

There's a point where the Beast sees a wild animal and goes into stalking hunter mode before Beauty snaps him out of it. Believe it or not, that is something that was not cut out of the Disney version. It's never outright stated, but the writers confirmed that the Beast is slowly losing his humanity, and if the curse is never broken, he would completely convert into a mindless animal. In the West Wing, when Belle walks through, if you look really hard you can see the carcasses of dead animals that he's dragged in there and eaten. You know how he doesn't know how to eat? Or how to read, even though he's an adult? There's a reason for that.

I do like how the Beast is literally buried in the ground when Beauty finds him later. Like he's a statue that toppled over and began eroding without her there. Crazy haunting.

Also, I love how Beauty's reaction upon seeing the prince is exactly the same as Belle's in the Disney version. ("Who the hell are you?") 

Speaking of, hot damn, that prince! I can't help but feel if Disney made him look like that, there would be far less complaining about his human form. Rrrr...

I've already typed way too much, but I really love Beauty and the Beast, and I really like this version, too. So without further ado, please enjoy!

[princesssarisa]

Sleeping Beauty Spring: The Complete List

The Sleeping Beauty (1889 ballet by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky)

Dornröschen ("Briar Rose") (1902 German opera by Engelbert Humperdinck)

La belle au bois dormant ("The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood") (1908 French silent short)

La bella dormente nel bosco ("The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood") (1922 Italian opera by Ottorino Respighi)

The Sleeping Princess (1939 Walter Lantz cartoon)

Dornröschen ("Briar Rose") (1941 German stop-motion short)

Let's Pretend: Sleeping Beauty (late 1940s record album)

Prinsessa Ruussunen ("Princess Briar Rose") (1949 Finnish film)

The Sleeping Beauty (1954 silhouette animated short)

Dornröschen ("Briar Rose") (1955 German film)

Sleeping Beauty (1959 Disney animated film)

Dornröschen ("Briar Rose") (1971 German film)

Festival of Family Classics: The Sleeping Beauty (1973 animated series episode)

World Famous Fairy Tale Series/My Favorite Fairy Tales: Sleeping Beauty (1976 anime series episode)

Jak se budí princezny ("How to Wake a Princess") (1978 Czech/German film)

Music Time: The Sleeping Beauty (1979 stop-motion short)

Faerie Tale Theatre: Sleeping Beauty (1983 TV series episode)

Favourite Fairy Tales: Sleeping Beauty (1984 animated short)

Cannon Movie Tales: Sleeping Beauty (1987 film)

Grimm's Fairy Tale Classics: Briar Rose (1989 anime series episode)

Šípková Růženka ("Briar Rose") (1990 Czech/German film)

Britannica's Fairy Tales from Around the World: Sleeping Beauty (1990 animated short)

Sleeping Beauty (1991 Golden Films animated feature)

Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child – Sleeping Beauty (1995 animated series episode)

Sleeping Beauty (1995 Jetlag Productions animated feature)

La leggenda della Bella Addormentata ("The Legend of Sleeping Beauty") (1998 Italian animated series)

Simsala Grimm: Sleeping Beauty (2000 animated series episode)

O Šípkové Růžence ("Briar Rose") (2006 Czech TV film)

Märchenperlen: Dornröschen ("Fairy Tale Pearls: Briar Rose") (2008 German TV film)

Sechs auf einen Streich: Dornröschen ("Six a One Blow: Briar Rose") (2009 German TV film)

Maleficent (2014 film)

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