{"id":4319,"date":"2023-02-08T10:38:47","date_gmt":"2023-02-08T18:38:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wayofstory.com\/?p=4319"},"modified":"2023-02-08T11:08:31","modified_gmt":"2023-02-08T19:08:31","slug":"elephants-perspective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wayofstory.com\/?p=4319","title":{"rendered":"Elephants & Perspective"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The gift of Art rests in the artist\u2019s perspective.
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Dinner with Violette Verdy, just returned from a NY City Ballet Tour of Russia & Poland, also Paris. At the Opera de\u2019Paris, Violette danced Giselle<\/em> to raves! I mentioned seeing our friend, Madeline Malraux, who played Stravinsky\u2019s Circus Polka<\/em> at her Paris concert recently. Violette asked, \u201cDo you know the story? Sometime ago before Balanchine created the NY City Ballet, when Balanchine did not yet have his own company, he had to make a living. Barnum & Bailey asked him if he would choreograph a dance for their elephants. Balanchine telephoned his friend, Stravinsky, and asked him if he would write something for a dance of elephants. Without the slightest hesitation, Stravinsky replied, \u201cHow old are the elephants?\u201d Balanchine replied, \u201cVery young ones.\u201d Hence, the Circus Polka<\/em> was born!<\/p>\n

– Catherine Ann Jones, Buddha & the Dancing Girl: A Creative Life<\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

The memory of Violette’s story about Stravinsky’s Circus Polka stayed with me all these years. Why? I think because the perspective of creatives differs from that of others. The gift of Art rests in the artist’s perspective. How he or she sees the world<\/p>\n

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The gift of Art rests in the artist\u2019s perspective. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 – Catherine Ann Jones Dinner with Violette Verdy, just returned from a NY City Ballet Tour of Russia & Poland, also Paris. At the Opera de\u2019Paris, Violette danced Giselle to raves! I mentioned seeing our friend, Madeline Malraux, who played Stravinsky\u2019s Circus Polka at her […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4312,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-catherine-ann-jones","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wayofstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wayofstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wayofstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wayofstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wayofstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4319"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"http:\/\/wayofstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4323,"href":"http:\/\/wayofstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4319\/revisions\/4323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wayofstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wayofstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wayofstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}