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Nine of Cups. Art by Hannah Ward, from The Leeds Tarot Card Project.

“The 9 of cups symbolises success, it’s a man in the centre on a bench, admiring all his possessions. It represents that content feeling when you look around and feel satisfied with you life. I feel particularly connected with this card because at the moment I feel like I should feel content with my life, with what I’ve got but I’m not. Maybe this symbolises that happiness is coming, or that I should take stock and appreciate all I have.

I pixelated and simplified the original image into block colours, then copied that with the Hama beads. This was in a very simple style, like the Hama Bead pieces I used to make.”

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There are moments onstage when everything else falls away, and I think of these as the magic times. In the magic times, I feel completely in control of my body, my limbs do everything that is asked of them, and I feel as if gravity has no hold on me. Tonight, dancing Lottie's part feels just like that.

— Bunheads (Sophie Flack)

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My name is Hannah Ward. Don't call me a ballerina.

Ballerinas are the stars of the company. They dance center stage under the spotlight, and they get their own curtain calls. Their head shots are printed in the program, with their names in large print. Me, I'm a dancer in the corps de ballet, just one of the dozens of girls who dance in graceful unison each night. My mother thinks I'm a star, but she's biased.

Besides, the word ballerina sounds too pink, too froufrou. Yes, we wear tutus and tiaras, but only when we perform each night. We spend most of our time hidden from the audience, working as hard as we possibly can to strengthen and control our bodies so that when we step onstage, everything we do looks perfect and effortless.

We rehearse in old leotards, threadbare tights, and torn leg warmers. We rarely buy new dance clothes because we know that most ballet careers are short-lived. Today, for example, I'm wearing a faded navy cotton leotard and black, slightly less faded leggings. There's nothing pink or froufrou about that.

“Throw yourself into your dancing now,” one of my teachers once said, “because the life of a dancer can be as short as a fruit fly's.”

— Bunheads (Sophie Flack)

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The Assent

After a series of disturbing supernatural events in his home, Joel a young single father, comes to suspect that his young son may be possessed. Soon Joel receives a visit from Father Lambert, a controversial exorcist in town whose last patient died during his treatment. As increasing chilling occurrences begin to unfold, the priest informs a resistant Joel that unless he can successfully perform…

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