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 ...

The fundamentals of ballet haven’t changed all that much since its invention in 15th-century Italy. Yet the popular image of this deeply traditional medium has been largely defined by the talents of ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Edgar Degas, solitary, paradoxical, far-sighted, was at once the most classical and the most modern of the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

"The Rehearsal", 1874, by Degas. (Lent by Culture and Sport Glasgow on behalf of Glasgow City Council.) How do you solve a problem like the Impressionists? So familiar have their scenes become, so ...

Degas and the Ballet: Picturing Movement, Royal Academy of Arts, review As this brilliant exhibition shows, Degas perfectly captured the whirling yet transient energy of dance, writes Alastair Sooke.

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 ...