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Degas’s dancers don’t just show ballet’s beauty – they reveal a sinister system of sexual exploitation
Degas’s dancers mesmerise for the same reason as ballet itself ... the ornate foyer de la danse functioned as both a rehearsal studio and a setting for trysts. “Backstage at the opera was ...
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Degas goes on show at Glasgow Burrell Collection
Victoria and Albert Museum, London The Ballet Scene from Meyerbeer's Opera Robert Le Diable by Edgar Degas At the end of ... of the Glasgow paintings – The Rehearsal – remains upstairs in ...