Sleeping Beauty | Sleeping Beauty
Jul.17.2012
Once upon a time . . . .
No, that's another story.
I've always loved fairy tales, especially the animated fairy tales and their more dramatic counterparts of my childhood. I have a collection of all the Cinderella stories, from Walt Disney to Leslie Caron as Ella with the dirty face, bare feet, and...
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Jun.29.2012
Fairytales today, both written and rewritten, seem to imbue the female character with power not before observed in fairytales of the past. However, it can be argued that this revisionist perspective regarding the attainment of power is only in part due to the changes in cultural climate....
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May.24.2012
My grandmother brought me up on fairy tales. Every evening, as daylight faded and silhouettes grew blurred, my mind's eye would open up to the world of magic. Talking animals would trot into our living room, princesses with stars on their foreheads and moon crescents in their...
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Feb.13.2012
Schooldays. I’m about eight years old, I have my brown school reader in my hand, and I’m about to knock on the headmistress’s door. Everyone in the school has to go and read to her once a week - a solemn ceremony and not a bad one either: there’s something special about leaving the...
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Feb.11.2012
Me as Rip van Winkle, Faith Prince as Sleeping Beauty in HBO's Emmy award-winning Encyclopedia: http://youtu.be/yHE-u9UYSmo
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Aug.16.2010
A long time ago, when I was a young artist-organizer obsessed with questions of artists' rights and livelihood, I used to give talks to groups of artists. I often began with the archetypal tale of Sleeping Beauty, in which Beauty must slumber hopefully, entirely passive until kissed into life by...
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