Project Summary: This essay concerns the ballet Sheherazade by the Russian composer Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. Your essay must include a detailed answer to each of the topics below and written into an organized essay. Your guiding principle or thesis for the essay must be ideas based upon the following quotation. Your essay should be no less than 2 pages. Dance interprets the inner life of feeling with exceptional power. No other art surpasses dance in this respect. 1. Describe the story of the ballet based upon only your viewing of the ballet. 2. On youtube watch the pas de deux between Sheherazade and the Golden Slave. A very famous melody is introduced and developed intently in their dance. Discuss why this melody is significant for their dance. Consider the notion of musical orientalism as you write this section. 3. Why might Rimsky-Korsakov have found the theme of Sheherazade interesting?