Everything’s Coming up Roses

A rose is a rose is a rose so they say—but really roses are so much more than that!

(I took this photo on my iphone of these marvelous heirloom roses growing along an iron fence 7 blocks long outside the Pixar buildings on Park Ave a few blocks from our loft.)

Roses are not just glorious colors and delectable scents, but inspiration for art, literature, fashion, textiles and jewelry for almost as long as these things have existed.  Not to mention food—my grandmother used to make rose-petal jam, a tradition in some parts of Greece.

Isadora Duncan choreographed a dance to one of the Strauss Waltzes that she called “Roses from the South” (photo is me dancing it)—

Michel Fokine choreographed the ballet “La Spectre de la Rose” —

Roses are splendid in all their manifestations—

Including Jewels (The Roses of Tuscany) —

And music — Sarah Brightman singing Desert Rose —

Posted: June 14th, 2010 under Uncategorized.