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How Edgar Degas captured the gangly, awkward movements of a young dancer

"So much about dance vocabulary has to do with line."
Cora Michael
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"So much about dance vocabulary has to do with line."

Curator Cora Michael on Edgar Degas' drawing of "Little Girl Practicing at the Bar."

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Cora Michael
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Little Girl Practicing at the Bar, Edgar Degas French, Black chalk and graphite, heightened with white chalk on pink laid paper
Little Girl Practicing at the Bar
Edgar Degas
ca. 1878–80