| Burton's characteristic gothic style is perfectly suited to this retelling of an old Russian folk tale. |
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| The Edge of the World is really a modern folk tale, a story of family honor and the burden of history. |
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| The musical short film, based on a Shona folk tale, will premiere at ZIFF complete with a live performance of the songs in the film. |
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| Independent Ballet Wales bring this classical folk tale to life mixing explosive dance and classical ballet in a truly unforgettable evening. |
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| Based on a Russian folk tale, the story outlines the misfortunes of a young soldier who sells his soul to the devil. |
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| One of my favourite films of 2001 was Wu Yen, which is adapted from a folk tale that was also made into a Cantonese opera. |
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| Based on a Macedonian folk tale, it became the most famous Yugoslavian ballet. |
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| Their story plays like some merry old folk tale, about a few lads off on a summertime lark that turned into a life-transforming adventure. |
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| Using painting, photography and silver ink on black paper the works portray a bizarre folk tale story. |
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| According to a folk tale you can hear the little knight sigh at night when the town is in danger. |
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| In the book, Hurston explores the Moses story as an African-American folk tale. |
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| This is a traditional Russian folk tale, beautifully told by Celia Barker Lottridge. |
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| Eventually she spits out an animated lizard, a reference to a folk tale about a sharp-tongued girl whose speech is transformed from words into reptiles. |
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| Harvey Chan's dark and mysterious illustrations are the perfect complement to this mystical folk tale. |
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| The Firebird is a fierce folk tale, with a brilliant ballerina role at its heart. |
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| Robin Muller has drawn inspiration from an old Chinese folk tale and the sights of late Victorian England to create The Magic Paintbrush. |
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| When I was a child, the desert was so far away from us, it was spoken of as a folk tale. |
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| A Chinese folk tale tells how the tea pickers keep the best leaves for themselves, hiding them in their pockets before taking them home with them. |
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| A fanciful Irish folk tale done in the Irish dialect. |
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| He asked many questions along the way and did not take folk tale and fable as truth. |
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| The ballet, as clownish as the opera that preceded it, was inspired by a popular Russian folk tale of Alexander Afanassiev, who played a huge role in popularizing Russian folklore. |
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| Based on a Japanese folk tale that has been handed down in countless variations throughout the centuries, Crane Wife is about a poor man who marries a silkweaver only to find she is actually a magical crane he once aided. |
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| The Tower: This Persian folk tale sees a macabre conclusion by way of a solution based upon the reasonable rationale that a tower is a well upside down. |
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| Employing a variety of forms and settings, including the folk tale, the fairy tale and science fiction, contemporary life and past epochs, they have allowed their fertile imaginations to roam free. |
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| During the heyday of the Ballets Russes, Sergei Diaghilev commissioned Igor Stravinsky to compose the music for a ballet based on a Russian folk tale. |
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| Write a folk tale or fairy tale that tells you how you got your name. |
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| Children are introduced to early musical instruments and to music as diverse as a Huron folk tale, an Acadian turlutte, a rondeau heard in the court of Louis XIV and a motet composed by a nun from the city of Québec. |
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| Spinning wheels are also integral to the plot or characterization in the Scottish folk tale Habitrot and the German tales The Three Spinners. |
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| A Welsh language triple bill of contemporary responses to the folk tale of Blodeuwedd. |
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| The Qatari folk tale tradition has been given special focus by the Qatar Heritage and Identity Centre to preserve the heritage of the country. |
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| Egyptian-born Karim Alrawi narrates a captivating ancient Middle Eastern folk tale in an unadorned, yet engaging, manner. |
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| Ghanim said oethe story is a folk tale which develops the story between a girl and a magical fish which helps the girl solve some problems in her life. |
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| According to a San folk tale of Namibia, the zebra was once all white, but acquired its black stripes after a fight with a baboon over a waterhole. |
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| An English folk tale tells how an old woman, a supposed witch, cursed her landlord and all his possessions when he demanded the unpaid rent for her cottage. |
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| A folk tale, relates the origin of the Friar's Heel reference. |
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