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Line 1: {{trope}} [[File:eversummer eve dream ball.jpg\|frame]] ~~[[File:eversummer_eve_dream_ball.jpg\|link=Webcomic/Eversummer Eve\|right]]~~ A character has a lot on his or her mind. They lie down, and all of a sudden, there's music. And guys in tights. What the... Then they wake up, and the ballet was [[All Just a Dream]]. The [['''Dream Ballet]]''' had its heyday in musical [[Theatre]] from the 1930s through 1950s, when it was a favorite of such choreographers as George Balanchine, Agnes de Mille, Jerome Robbins and [[Bob Fosse]]. It appeared in other media as well, but has now fallen out of fashion. It doesn't necessarily have to be a dream, but it only takes place in a character's mind. Compare [[All Just a Dream]] and [[Disney Acid Sequence]]. {{examples}}▼ ▲{{examples}} == Anime and Manga == Line 18: * The ballet at the end of ''[[An American in Paris]]'', which is nearly 20 minutes long. * ''[[Snow White and The Three Stooges]]'' has a Dream ''Ice'' Ballet, to show off the skills of lead Carol Heiss. * ''[[~~Labyrinth (Film)\|~~Labyrinth]]'' had a scene that put Sarah in a white, puffy [[Pimped-Out Dress]], and [[Giant Poofy Sleeves]]. It had allusions to ''[[Cinderella (Disney film)\|Cinderella]]'', with Jareth as the prince dancing with her, and when clocks striking Midnight caused Sarah to break out of the dream. * The film of ''[[Chicago]]'' uses this for nearly all of its musical numbers, contrasting Roxie's lavish and expansive daydreams with the cramped and discolored 'real' world. * The "Broadway Ballet" from ''[[Singin' in ~~The~~the Rain ~~(Film)~~\|Singin in The Rain]]'' is an imagined [[Show Within a Show]] which has an internal dream sequence in the [[Gene Kelly]]/Cyd Charisse ''pas de deux''. * Miss Piggy's water ballet in ''[[The Great Muppet Caper]]''. * There's one in ''[[~~Bambi (Disney)\|~~Bambi]]'' when the title character gets his [[First Kiss]] - the only overt fantasy moment in an otherwise realistic story. * The "Once Upon A December" number in ''[[Anastasia]]'', where the portraits in the imperial ballroom come to life and dance for Anya. * The truly bizarre short film "Design for Dreaming," which features a dream ballet about an auto show(!) and was given the ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v91GELINmKo&feature=PlayList&p=76F6D9C63EFE0813&index=0&playnext=1 Mystery Science Theater 3000]'' treatment with hilarious results. * The bowling-pin dancers in [[The Big Lebowski\|The Dude's]] dream. * [[Osamu Tezuka\|Tezuka Productions']] ''Broken Down Film'': When the nameless cowboy finally saves the damsel, the film suddenly shifts to Technicolor and the setting changes to a ballroom as the trope sets in. Then, when snapped out of it, the film suddenly reverts to its black-and-white western format. * The 1956 movie version of ''[[Anything Goes]]'' included one. * Messed around with in ''[[~~Black Swan (Film)\|~~Black Swan]]'' ... [[Mind Screw\|probably]]. * [[Cannibal! ~~the~~The Musical]] features a random dream ballet as an homage to [[Oklahoma!]]. * Charlie Chaplin's ''[[The Kid]]'' has one near the end, with everyone in angel costumes until the party gets crashed by devils. Being that the rest of the film is fairly realistic, [[~~Big~~Non ~~Lipped~~Sequitur ~~Alligator Moment~~Scene\|it's appearance is rather random]]. == Literature == Line 39: * Not necessarily ''ballets'', but there are a lot of musical numbers in ''Eli Stone'''s dream/hallucination sequences. * Deleted scenes from ''[[~~Red Dwarf (TV)\|~~Red Dwarf]]'' show that the writers toyed with the idea of a dream recorder, although the whole number was cut from the relevant episode (season 2, "Parallel Universe"). It's Cat's dream, naturally enough. * A musical version happens in ''[[~~I Carly~~iCarly]]'' with both Carly and Spencer. * The ''[[~~Angel (TV)\|~~Angel]]'' episode "Waiting in the Wings" had a deleted scene that featured a fantasy ballet sequence between Fred and Wesley. * In ''[[Smash]]'', Karen has a dream [[Bollywood]] dance number. == Theatre == * In ''[[Oklahoma!]]!'', there is a [[Dream Ballet]] after Laurey takes smelling salts to help her decide whether to take Curly or Jud to a dance. Famous as the ''Oklahoma!'' [[Dream Ballet]] is, ballets in Rodgers and Hammerstein musicals aren't always ~~dreams -- those~~dreams—those in ''[[Carousel]]'' and ''[[The King and I]]'' don't involve dreams. There is, however, a [[Dream Ballet]] for Ta in ''[[Flower Drum Song]]'', and the college dance sequence in ''Allegro'' takes a three-minute break from awkward reality to send the dancers twirling through their imaginations. This scene is spoofed in Matt Stone and Trey Parker's early film ''[[Cannibal! ~~the~~The Musical]]'' * "Somewhere" from ''[[West Side Story]]''. * "Carpe Noctem" from ''[[Tanz ~~Der~~der Vampire]]'' * ''[[The Nutcracker (~~Theatre~~theatre)\|The Nutcracker]]'' is a ballet in which all of the second act and some of the first turns out to be [[All Just a Dream]] in some productions (other productions play it as straight fantasy with magical things orchestrated by the mysterious Drosselmeyer). * ''Fiddler On The Roof'' has both a [[Dream Ballet]] and a ballet to explain a dream. * The [[Trope Maker]] ''might'' be the "Beggar's Waltz" from the 1931 revue ''The Band Wagon''. * [[The Musical]] adaptation of ''A Tree Grows In Brooklyn''. * ''[[~~The Pajama Game (Theatre)\|~~The Pajama Game]]'' has the "Jealousy Ballet," with Hines imagining what life married to Gladys would be like. * ''[[Bye Bye Birdie]]'' has a frequently-cut ballet in which Rose dreams of killing her spineless fiance over and over again. * "The Imaginary Coney Island" in ''[[On the Town]]''. "A Day In New York" in the film version uses much of the same music. * The stage version of ''[[Mamma Mia!]]!'' uses this as the Act Two opener, set to the ABBA song "Under Attack," complete with neon colors, blacklights, and scuba gear. * Rod's dream ("Fantasies Come True") in Act One of ''[[Avenue Q]],'' and Princeton's moment of panic at the end of Act One. * Not a "Dream" Ballet ''per se,'' but as Jo reads aloud her "operatic tragedy" at the beginning of both acts of the musical version of ''[[Little Women]],'' the rest of the cast acts out the roles, [[Large Ham\|hamming it up]] as operatically as they can. Line 64: * "Peter's Journey" from ''Babes in Arms''. * "Joey Looks Into the Future" from ''Pal Joey''. * The ballet ''Fall River Legend'' is almost entirely a flashback in the [[No Name Given\|Accused's]] head as she is sentenced to death, but there's also a dream ballet ''within'' the flashback, in which she reunites with her dead mother after [[Ax Crazy\|murdering her father and stepmother]]. == Web Original == * The above image is from [https://web.archive.org/web/20120510153321/http://www.wirepop.com/comic_index.php?id=14 Eversummer Eve]. * Evoked in ''[[Silent Hill: Promise]]'' when Vanessa pricks her finger and hallucinates that she is trick or treating as a literal ballerina. {{reflist}} [[Category:Theater Tropes]] [[Category:Dream Tropes]] [[Category:Dream Ballet]]