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(More customer reviews)This DVD gives the viewer a chance to witness a wonderful mixture of music, ballet, and storyline. For those toddlers and young children who know the stories by Beatrix Potter, the ballet offers a full-body experience of the geography of the fiction. Our daughter loves to try to imitate the very humorous (and presumably difficult) dance of Jemima Puddleduck trying to lay an egg. The entire film itself seems to have been made yesterday--not almost 40 years ago! The sets are fantastic--especially the lilly pads of Jeremy Fisher.
What I like is that the penchant Potter had for creating the fear of being eaten (it is in almost all of her stories) is muted a great deal in these dances. What comes across most clearly to the child is the dance itself, and that is, I would say, as it should be.
I am myself more interested in watching ballet after watching this. And it may just be because this DVD performance can in fact educate children and adults about how to watch dance...but I'll leave that to others to say.
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Studio: Lions Gate Home Ent.Release Date: 03/03/2009Run time: 90 minutesRating: G
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