“So much about dance vocabulary has to do with line.”
Curator Cora Michael on Edgar Degas’s drawing Little Girl Practicing at the Bar (ca. 1878–80).
Awkward
Cora Michael
2 min. watch
Contributors
Cora Michael
Associate Curator, Department of Drawings and Prints
Associate Curator, Department of Drawings and Prints
Photography by Bruce J. Schwarz
Art Mentioned
Edgar Degas
ca. 1878–80
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