Tag: edgar degas

We're Living for This Degas-Inspired Sculpture of Misty Copeland

Edgar Degas’ famous sculpture Little Dancer Aged Fourteen has been getting a lot of love recently—and by “love,” we mean everything from a tutu upgrade to a full-on musical telling her story. But artist Doyle V. Trankina‘s reimagining of the sculpture, with none other than Misty Copeland taking the place of the young Paris Opéra […]

Watch the Met Museum Make Degas' "Little Dancer" Sculpture a New Tutu

We always love it when dance costumes get the high-fashion treatment. But here’s a next-level ballet makeover story: Curators at NYC’s Metropolitan Museum of Art recently decided that Edgar Degas’ iconic The Little Fourteen-Year-Old Dancer sculpture needed a bit of a style refresh—and tasked the museum’s Costume Institute conservator, Glenn Petersen, with making her a […]

The Cast of Little Dancer Visits the Actual Little Dancer

When I was maybe 10, a museum near my hometown exhibited a bronze cast of Edgar Degas’ Little Dancer Aged Fourteen sculpture. I went to visit her, and quickly discovered that my first impulse—to imitate her iconic fourth-position pose—was shared by dozens of other baby ballerinas. There was a whole crowd of us gathered around the […]

There's a Ballet-y New Musical in Town

The Degas sculpture that inspired it all. If you’re an eagle-eyed reader of DS (and why wouldn’t you be?), you probably noticed an interesting little aside in our April “You Should Know” story about 14-year-old prima-in-the-making Madeleine Gardella. The pint-sized ballerina, we learned, recently participated in the workshop for a new musical, Little Dancer, directed […]