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Article: PBS PROBES DEGAS' WORLD DANCE HALL IMAGES SHOW MUSE OF MAN WHO SHOCKED PARIS.(Entertainment/Weekend/Spotlight)
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- Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
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- January 3, 2004
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Byline: Mary Voelz Chandler, ROCKY MOUNTAIN NEWS
Say the name Edgar Degas and one word springs to mind: dance.
So it seems hard to believe that not until the 2002 exhibition "Degas and the Dance" did a show bring together more than 100 works devoted to what undoubtedly was Degas' favorite topic. After all, more than half of this prolific artist's work was devoted to the world - back stage and on stage and in the rehearsal hall - of the ballet.
But that's what organizers of the exhibition, on view at the Detroit Institute of Arts and the Philadelphia Museum of Art, claim, and it's what inspired production of a television show of the same name.
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