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.

In the unadorned space of a high-ceilinged dance studio are assembled a bevy of young ballerinas-in-training. Clad in cascading white tutus and colorful sashes, the girls are variously occupied. In ...

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 only sculpture that French painter Edgar Degas ever shared with the public sparked an immediate outrage. Degas debuted his true-to-life amalgamation of beeswax, human hair, and more, depicting his ...