_captive-bride-short.jpg "Captive Bride (Short) from selkie from Video Screenshot Preview")
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✓ Published: 19-Jul-2016
✓ Published: 19-Jul-2016
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Animation: Anat SchamnChoreography: Alida SalernonMusic: Abby Clemens nnThe main theme and narrative is based on a theme in mythology involving animalsntransforming into woman and then captured by men, or the “Animal Bride”. This idea isnseen in many different cultures, though slightly changed. Stories taken inspiration fromnare: Swan Maidens, Hagoromo (The Feather Mantle) and Kitsune(fox) (Japanese),nSelkie(Seal, Irish/Scottish/Faroese), She-Wolf (Croatian ), Buffalo Maidens (Africa),nCowhe
Animation: Anat SchamnChoreography: Alida SalernonMusic: Abby Clemens nnThe main theme and narrative is based on a theme in mythology involving animalsntransforming into woman and then captured by men, or the “Animal Bride”. This idea isnseen in many different cultures, though slightly changed. Stories taken inspiration fromnare: Swan Maidens, Hagoromo (The Feather Mantle) and Kitsune(fox) (Japanese),nSelkie(Seal, Irish/Scottish/Faroese), She-Wolf (Croatian ), Buffalo Maidens (Africa),nCowhe
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