{"id":1149,"date":"2020-07-30T11:51:43","date_gmt":"2020-07-30T10:51:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertjaggsfowler.com\/?page_id=1149"},"modified":"2020-08-01T06:11:14","modified_gmt":"2020-08-01T05:11:14","slug":"the-artist-and-the-dancer","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.robertjaggsfowler.com\/?page_id=1149","title":{"rendered":"The Artist and the Dancer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\"><strong>The Artist and the Dancer<\/strong>\n(Dedicated to the American movement artist, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.garywelton.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Gary Welton<\/a>)\n<strong>&nbsp;<\/strong>\nAlone, beneath a spotlight\ncentre-left of an empty stage,\nshe dances to the music\nfor an audience in her mind;\n&nbsp;\nwhilst, in the shadows of the wings,\na benign voyeur, possessed,\ncaptures her flowing movements\nin a brush-stroked pas-de-deux.\n&nbsp;\nEach allonge and pirouette\nkeeps the artist in his trance,\nas he renders to acrylic\ncomplex rhythms of her dance;\n&nbsp;\nuntil at last she falls exhausted,\nand his pallet\u2019s work is done;\nto remain undisturbed upon an easel\nfor several years to come.\n&nbsp;\nDecades later: a champagne reception\nfor a gallery\u2019s opening night where,\nfrom the shadows, an old man gazes\nas a graceful lady stands and sighs\n&nbsp;\nalone, beneath a spotlight,\nat a figure centre-left of a canvas stage,\nwhere she now dances for an audience\nwith music in their minds.\n\n<em>\u00a9 Copyright 2017 Robert M Jaggs-Fowler <\/em><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Artist and the Dancer (Dedicated to the American movement artist, Gary Welton) &nbsp; Alone, beneath a spotlight centre-left of an empty stage, she dances to the music for an audience in her mind; &nbsp; whilst, in the shadows of &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.robertjaggsfowler.com\/?page_id=1149\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":985,"menu_order":5,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1149","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.robertjaggsfowler.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.robertjaggsfowler.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.robertjaggsfowler.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.robertjaggsfowler.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.robertjaggsfowler.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1149"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.robertjaggsfowler.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1164,"href":"http:\/\/www.robertjaggsfowler.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1149\/revisions\/1164"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.robertjaggsfowler.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.robertjaggsfowler.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}