Ballet dancers, Misty Copeland tells me, like to be in control. It's something about ballet itself-the painstaking quest to achieve the appearance of a kind of effortless athleticism, fluidity, and ...

Edgar Degas was tired of picturing dancers. For two decades he had sketched performers all over the Paris Opera Ballet, from classroom to staircase to wings. He had cheered their successes onstage and ...

Opera and ballet were a fashionable part of Parisian cultural life, and Degas was likely in the audience long before he began to paint the dancers. Indeed, some of his first dance paintings portray ...

In honor of Impressionist painter Edgar Degas’ 184th birthday and the Museum of Fine Arts’ new exhibit, “French Pastels: Treasures from the Vault,” two pre-professional ballerinas convened at the ...

And yet these delightful silhouettes suggest the contradiction at the heart of Degas’s paintings: his charming images are, in fact, exposés. We witness the endless behind-the-scenes graft that goes ...

Impressionist painter Edgar Degas never expected his work to be presented to the public in three dimensions. Imagine, then, what his surprise would be at seeing not just a collection of brass statues ...

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In honor of Impressionist painter Edgar Degas’ 184th birthday and the Museum of Fine Arts’ new exhibit, “French Pastels: Treasures from the Vault,” two pre-professional ballerinas convened at the ...