Another view on Degas and the Ballet: Picturing Movement
Edgar Degas clearly loved ballet; there's no voyeurism here, just pleasure in the transport of movement, finds dancer Sarah LambI thought I knew Degas pretty well, but this exhibition taught me a lot. You get a really strong sense of how, throughout his career, Degas was interested in testing the limits of a static art form " how it might capture ballet's fluid movement and fleeting moments.He studied ballet techniqu…