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Bechdel Test Canon Double Feature: Suspiria and Picnic at Hanging Rock

Movies post by Alyx Vesey on December 10, 2010 - 11:41am; tagged Anne-Louis Lambert, ballet, Black Swan, body horror, Dario Argento, Goblin, Jessica Harper, Peter Weir, Picnic at Hanging Rock, Rodarte, Sofia Coppola, Suspiria.
Picnic at Hanging Rock's Miranda

In the wake of critical interest over Darren Aronofsky's Black Swan, a comparison between Peter Weir's Picnic at Hanging Rock and Dario Argento's Suspiria, two mid-70s features about how young women escape a Victorian-era boarding school and a European ballet conservatory.

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Supporting Movement Friday

Social Commentary post by La Macha on December 19, 2008 - 3:30pm; tagged ballet, feminism, mariatallcheif, movement, sports.

This Friday, in an effort to promote thought about how to support women and movement (and/or sports/exercise) in a meaningful, fully inclusive, liberatory manner, I want to point to Maria Tallchief.

Tallchief is the first Native American woman who 'made it' as an internationally recognized ballerina. This clip gives a short background:

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