A cat enters the ballet scene!
Do you know why one of the classic ballet jumps is called “entrechat”? If you try to translate this word from French, you will get “enter, cat!” (“entre-chat”). French genius Edgar Degas tells the story of this name in his famous painting “Two Dancers”:
Edgar Degas, Two Dancers. The Cat enters the scene
Once We, Zarathustra the Cat, were watching how the great master painted two dancers in amazing azure tutus.
Degas noticed how the color of the ballerinas’ outfits harmonized with Our ginger fur.
“Entre, chat! Vas-y, dance avec eux!” – “Enter, cat! Go-go, dance with them!” exclaimed the artist.
We jumped on the scene immediately in one purrfect entrechat!
Edgar Degas, Two dancers. The Cat enters the scene, detail
We just had a tasty dinner, so We were a bit exhausted by this spontaneous move and, noticing this, one of the dances immediately started fanning Us:
Edgar Degas, Two Dancers. The Cat enters the scene, detail
This is the story!
You would ask: “And what about the commonly known version of the painting that we saw in the Albertina Museum, Vienna?”
Edgar Degas, Two Dancers. The Albertina Museum, Vienna
Here you see the scene just before We entered there.
Just wait for it, and the cat will jump into the painting!
Thus speaks Zarathustra the Cat
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