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 ...
Degas’ masterpiece The Dance Class shatters the traditional impression of ballet dancers and exposes the truth behind the curtains of the 19th-century Parisian stage. It gives an insight into the ...
"The Dance Class" by Degas, one of his grand oils in Washington, is not where you'd expect it. It doesn't hang with the French pictures at the National Gallery. Nor is it at the Phillips Collection.