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

"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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Photography by Bruce J. Schwarz

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