Curator Cora Michael on Edgar Degas' drawing of "Little Girl Practicing at the Bar."
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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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Cora Michael
Associate Curator, Department of Drawings and Prints
Associate Curator, Department of Drawings and Prints
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Edgar Degas
ca. 1878–80