Fairy Ballet

This short film is adapted from Madame d'Aulnoy's classic fairy tale, *The White Cat*. Originally, *The White Cat* was planned as a feature film musical, which Anna Biller worked on over a period of a couple of years. During this time, she created an original soundtrack, over a hundred costumes, many props, and a children's book. Eventually, realizing the project was somewhat unconventional and expensive to fund, she adapted it for the stage with a cast of eight performers, calling the new version *The Lady Cat*. Both the film and play aimed to capture the complex nature of the character of the White Cat, an enchanted princess who has been transformed into a cat, with all of the perversions and fancies that such a transformation implies. This particular scene focuses on the sexual feelings that are awakened in the two lovers when they witness the arrival of spring.