Corps

> "*In French, "corps" means "body", or what you might call a corpse. What all of us are fighting not to become. It's that last turn nobody wants to make when you die... or when enough people see you that way.*"
> ― Cassie Shore
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**"*Corps*"** is the first episode and series premiere of Season 1 of *Tiny Pretty Things*, and the first episode overall.

## Synopsis

Ballerina Neveah arrives at Chicago's famed Archer School to find cruel new rivals - and the disturbing truth behind her surprise acceptance.

## Cast

### Starring

* Kylie Jefferson as Neveah Stroyer
* Brennan Clost as Shane McRae
* Barton Cowperthwaite as Oren Lennox
* Bayardo De Murguia as Ramon Costa
* Damon J. Gillespie as Caleb Wick
* Casimere Jollette as Bette Whitlaw
* Anna Maiche as Cassie Shore
* Daniela Norman as June Park
* Michael Hsu Rosen as Nabil Limyadi
* Tory Trowbridge as Delia Whitlaw
* Jess Salgueiro as Isabel Cruz
* Lauren Holly as Monique Dubois

### Co-Starring

* Shaun Benson as Topher Brooks
* Michelle Nolden as Katrina Whitlaw
* Paula Boudreau as Selena Covey
* Jessica Greco as Torri Fuller
* Morgan Kelly as Alan Renfrew
* Clare Butler as Esmé Halterlein
* Elisa Moolecherry as Zandara Segal
* Araya Mengesha as Tyler Stroyer
* Ashley Coulson as Gwen Resnik
* Nicole Huff as Paige Aquino
* Kimberly Huie as Ms. Banks
* Colin Mercer as Vernon
* Alexandra Augustine as Zoe Estrella

### Ballet Corps

* Mia Bowman
* Sarah Maude Laliberte
* Lucas De Marinis
* Kirill Lordski
* Evgeni Dokoukine
* Lily McEvenue
* Josh St. John
* Emily Skubic
* Ty Forhan

## Episodic Voiceover

They start with your bones, then your feet, frame, and flexibility. Your musicality, charisma, and deference. Then after they’ve taken you apart… they wanna see a spark. Always, something hurts. Somewhere on your body, there's pain, an ache that comes from pushing beyond what any person was ever meant to do. But there's strength in being part of a larger body. The corps de ballet.
There's a price you pay learning to fly. They steal your childhood, your family... leave you only with friends who hope every day that your Achilles will snap. And they never let you group up. So if you want to live a little... you gotta get creative. There's a twisted bargain to ballet. After all your hard work, your pain, and sacrifice, when you walk among mortals, you become a god. You're a perfect, worshipped fruition of the best the body can do. All-day, someone else controls what you eat, what you wear, how you move, and who you touch. You're strapped into the roller coaster with your fiercest competitors. But what nobody else sees is those rivals are also the only people who get you... who celebrate you for who you are and challenge you to do better. There's no other way to say it. They're your tribe.

## Trivia

* Ramon receives threatening texts from an unknown person claiming to be "someone you hurt". They want him to stay out of Paris forever.
* Neveah finds the sweatshirt that Cassie's attacker wore the night of her incident in a metal bin on her balcony.
* Neveah receives a white rose under her pillow with a note saying, "*your turn to fly*". Interestingly enough, Cassie's attacker was also holding a white rose.

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