#cats #gillian_lynne All #children Are Different !!!

#cats #Gillian_Lynne
ALL #CHiLDREN are different !!!
“Gillian is a seven-year-old girl
who cannot sit still in school.
She continually gets up, gets distracted,
flies with thoughts, and doesn't follow lessons.
Her teachers worry about her, punish her, scold her, reward the few times that she is attentive, but nothing. Gillian does not know how to sit
and cannot be attentive.
When she comes home, her mother punishes her too. So not only does she Gillian have bad grades and punishment at school, but she also suffers
from them at home.
One day, Gillian's mother is called to school.
The lady, sad as someone waiting for bad news,
takes her hand and goes to the interview room.
The teachers speak of illness, of an obvious disorder. Maybe it's hyperactivity or maybe she needs a medication.
During the interview an old teacher arrives
who knows the little girl.
He asks all the adults, mother and colleagues,
to follow him into an adjoining room
from where she can still be seen.
As he leaves, he tells Gillian that they will be back soon and turns on an old radio with music.
As the girl is alone in the room,
she immediately gets up and begins to move up
and down chasing the music in the air with her feet
and her heart.
The teacher smiles as the colleagues and the mother look at him between confusion and compassion,
as is often done with the old.
So he says:
"See? Gillian is not sick, Gillian is a dancer!"
He recommends that her mother take her
to a dance class and that her colleagues make her dance from time to time.
She attends her first lesson
and when she gets home she tells her mother:
"Everyone is like me, no one can sit still there!"
In 1981, after a career as a dancer,
opening her own dance academy
and receiving international recognition for her art, Gillian Lynne became the choreographer
of the musical "Cats."
Hopefully all “different” children find adults capable
of welcoming them for who they are
and not for what they lack.
Long live the differences, the little black sheep
and the misunderstood.
They are the ones who create beauty in this world.”



'Cats' choreographer Gillian Lynne dead at 92 – New York Daily News (nydailynews.com)
https://www.nydailynews.com/enterta...rapher-gillian-lynne-dead-20180702-story.html