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Article: Degas's dance world. (News).(Edgar Degas)(Brief Article)
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- Dance Magazine
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- September 1, 2002
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By 1880, Edgar Degas was already known as "the painter of dancers." But this fall will mark the first major exhibition to place Degas's dance paintings, drawings, prints and sculptures--more than 50 percent of his output--in the context of nineteenth-century ballet in Paris. "Degas and the Dance" opens next month in Detroit and moves to Philadelphia in January.
Independent curators Jill DeVonyar, an art historian, classically trained dancer and teacher, and a specialist in late nineteenth-century French dance, and Richard Kendall, a noted Degas scholar, collaborated on the exhibit, which contains more than 100 dance works from nearly 100 museum and private ...