Translated from the Meowish.
Copyright December 1979.
[Part 5]
Thérèsa became the famous Madame (Mme.) Thérèsa Perrault whose ballet school was known all over France and over half the civilized world. The symbol for the school, printed on all their brochures and programs (especially during the international tours), was an snow-white Persian--one might say "Parisian" cat--who had orange sorbet (SORE BAY--a dessert like sherbet) tinted ears and tail, and a few pale orange tiger stripes on the very top of his head and at the very end of his front paws. He was, of course, wearing ivory ballet slippers on his hind paws.
It symbolized the fact that ballerinas always hope to "land on their feet," and to land as softly and silently as a cat--not, for instance, as loudly as a ton of bricks or of tuiles (TWHEELS--red clay roofing tiles.) Thérèsa was fond of saying this to her students. The cat whose portrait was included in the symbol was, of course, dear Schuss.
Thérèsa became the famous Madame (Mme.) Thérèsa Perrault whose ballet school was known all over France and over half the civilized world. The symbol for the school, printed on all their brochures and programs (especially during the international tours), was an snow-white Persian--one might say "Parisian" cat--who had orange sorbet (SORE BAY--a dessert like sherbet) tinted ears and tail, and a few pale orange tiger stripes on the very top of his head and at the very end of his front paws. He was, of course, wearing ivory ballet slippers on his hind paws.
It symbolized the fact that ballerinas always hope to "land on their feet," and to land as softly and silently as a cat--not, for instance, as loudly as a ton of bricks or of tuiles (TWHEELS--red clay roofing tiles.) Thérèsa was fond of saying this to her students. The cat whose portrait was included in the symbol was, of course, dear Schuss.
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