Performance of Children's Literature Fall 2024

CASD 1717 – Fall 2024

Dancing Little Red Riding Hood

Watch: 3 Short Ballet Videos

In the Tchaikovsky ballet Sleeping Beauty, there is a scene that features many fairy tale characters, including Little Red Riding Hood. Below are three different versions of the brief piece that shows The Little Red Riding Hood story. Pay close attention to how movement tells the story.

Each of these videos use the same music but slightly different choreography to tell the story of Little Red Riding Hood in less than 90 seconds. How does the movement of the dancer’s body help to tell each version of the story?

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22 responses to “Dancing Little Red Riding Hood”

  1. Mahnoor Avatar
    Mahnoor

    The different choreography and movements help tell each versions because they help express what the characters are feeling. This sets the mood for the person watching and allows them to see how the story plays out. The various movements are mainly used to tell a different ending in each story.

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  2. Victoria Lucenti Avatar
    Victoria Lucenti

    The movement of the dancer’s bodies within the three videos helped to tell each version of the story because it made the stories “come to life” as you could visually see how the dancers expressed their emotions through their own body movements. This assisted the main goal of seeing live and in action performances that were intended to emotionally connect with the audience as they told the story through their choreography and overall body movements.

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  3. Sofia Buttaro Avatar
    Sofia Buttaro

    As a dancer myself, I understand how you can see poetry in motion. Every “Little Red Riding Hood” film has dancers whose moves uniquely build the story. Dramatic dance is used in the Moscow Ballet’s version to highlight the story’s tension. Lyrical motions are used in Maria Mashina and Dmitry Umnikov’s performance to convey the subtle emotional changes in the characters. The Royal Ballet’s production emphasizes the contrast between aggression and innocence by using classical ballet techniques to show grace. Each method shows how choreography may affect the way a story is shown and its effect by using movement to interpret the story in a unique way. It lets you come up with your own thoughts and ideas about the choreography and story.

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  4. Anthea longville Avatar
    Anthea longville

    The movement of the dancer’s body help to tell each version of the story because movement plays a very important role in expressing the emotions, the development of characters and conveying the story without words. Different versions emphasize different themes or human relationships, and the acting is adjusted to highlight these elements.

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    1. Nitzan Naim Avatar
      Nitzan Naim

      I totally agree with your response – movement plays such an important role in expressing ourselves and in each version the movement is part of the storytelling of each version.

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  5. Michelle Cortes Rodriguez Avatar
    Michelle Cortes Rodriguez

    How does the movement of the dancer’s body help to tell each version of the story?
    The movement of the dancers body helped to tell each version of the story by showing us how they felt or what was the tone of that certain part. Their body language took a big part to know if they were happy, sad or angry.

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  6. Selina Chen Avatar
    Selina Chen

    The movement of the dancer’s body helps us tell each version of the story by expressing their emotions through the way they move their body and facial expressions. Combining both the movements and the facial expressions the dancers are able to portray the emotions for the audience to understand better.

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    1. Amy Khait Avatar
      Amy Khait

      I agree that the movement of the dancer’s body helps us to tell each version of the story by the expression of the emotions.

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  7. Ariana Loyfman Avatar
    Ariana Loyfman

    The different pace of body movement tells a story differently. This goes for facial expressions represented in the dance too. Music also plays a factor in the telling of the story through dance. This is similar to theatre and acting as well. Body movements and facial expressions play a huge role in changing the telling and emotions of a story.

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  8. Alexa Mendez Avatar
    Alexa Mendez

    The body movements are an expression of showing more emotion and its a better way for the audience to watch especially because it looks more entertaining.

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  9. Tory Sen Avatar
    Tory Sen

    The dancer’s movements and facial expressions help show how they feel and the tone of voice in many versions of a story. The audience can better understand how they are feeling by watching how they move and smile.

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  10. Brittany Giler Avatar
    Brittany Giler

    In dance interpretations of Little Red Riding Hood, the dancer’s body movement plays a crucial role in conveying the story’s narrative and themes by showing character development, setting and atmosphere, emotional expression, symbolic gestures and cultural interpretation.

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  11. Anifat Abumislimova Avatar
    Anifat Abumislimova

    Even though the music was the same, there were different choreography in telling the story of Little Red Riding Hood. The movement of the dancers’ bodies were telling different versions of the story. Each version shows how choreography can change how a story is told and how it feels.

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  12. Naurah Romulus Avatar
    Naurah Romulus

    Red’s movements were much more timid and delicate in the first two videos, showing the audience the innocence of her character, but in the third, her movements seemed more playful. Meanwhile, the Wolf’s movements in all three videos were more aggressive and cunning.

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  13. Kateryna Senkovych Avatar
    Kateryna Senkovych

    The body movements help to see how Little Red Riding Hood was scared of the wolf and didn’t want to go anywhere with him and with the wolf’s body movements, I see how he tries to be scary and he follows her around using movements that seem aggressive, while Little Red Riding Hood’s movements are more calm and playful.

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  14. Vanessa Lara Avatar
    Vanessa Lara

    The dancers movements gave us a visual/musical experience. One where we can connect with the story in a different way. Their movements and facial expressions give us the opportunity to almost be able to interpret our own version. Though we are all watching he same videos, we can interpret the movements differently which is what little red ridding hood is about. Keeping the same plot but giving the authors the room to change things. Seeing these choreographies surely made me realize how a fairytale can be told in different ways not only through reading but dancing as well.

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  15. samantha velez Avatar
    samantha velez

    Each performance of Little Red Riding hood, had a different atmosphere to it. The symphonies in each were different , either upbeat or low ominous tone. Each represented the characters differently the wolf looked more sophisticated in the second video while the first he looks more like a wolf.

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  16. Amy Khait Avatar
    Amy Khait

    Each of the different performances helped to express what the characters are feeling. It also helped the stories come to life through the choreography and dancing. It helps us to see the emotion that is behind the stories. I think seeing a live performance establishes an emotional connection with the audience, through the various movements and dances. Seeing the different performances was interesting and intriguing to me. It helped me understand how fairytales can be told in numerous ways, not just through reading or through telling the story, but also through performance.

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  17. Kaylee Pontone Avatar
    Kaylee Pontone

    Some movement is more aggressive, creating this threatening feeling that counters Little Red Riding Hood’s soft dancing. This is to emphasize how helpless she is in the story.

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  18. Amna Syeda Avatar
    Amna Syeda

    In each of the three videos, the story of Little Red Riding Hood is shown through unique dance movements that convey emotions and tone. Each version uses specific choreography, like fast spins or slow, careful steps, to show feelings such as fear, curiosity, or innocence. The dancer’s movements tell the story, reflecting themes and mood in a way that words cannot. This nonverbal storytelling draws viewers into Little Red Riding Hood’s journey, highlighting each version’s unique take through expressive dance.

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  19. Jaylyn Calles Avatar
    Jaylyn Calles

    The movement of the dancer’s body helps to tell each version of the story because of the speed when the wolf gets close the dancer moves faster to try to show the audience shes getting away. Some movements are more gentle and slower when there’s not something bad about to happen.

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  20. TIFFANY LARGO Avatar
    TIFFANY LARGO

    i liked how the ballet told the story without expressing any words ,just through movement and expression .the way red danced made her look playful and innocent while the wolfs body language showed more power and slyness even though it was short you could still tell who was and follow the main parts of the story which shows how much emotion and meaning can be show through dance

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