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A New Life for Degas's Young Dancer.(Ballet de l'Opera de Paris creates new ballet)(Brief Article)
In 1997 curators at Paris's Musee d'Orsay asked the Ballet de l'Opera de Paris to restore the fragile tulle skirt on Edgar Degas's most famous work: "La Petite Danseuse de Quatorze Ans." That was when the ballet's in-house historian, Martine Kahane, realized she knew nothing about Marie Van Goethem, the knobby-kneed teenager who had posed for the sculpture.
Kahane soon discovered the girl's dance career was short and tragic. "[It was] like something out of Emile Zola," says the opera's ballet master, Patrice Bart. Kahane recounted the tale to the ballet's director, Brigitte Lefevre, who was so moved she commissioned Bart to create a full-length ballet based on it. The three-act work, "La Petite Danseuse de Degas," runs through May 9 at Paris's Palais Garnier.
Van Goethem was the middle of three daughters of a widowed washerwoman who lived behind the then new Garnier opera house. Marie's mother pushed the young girl into the ballet's dance school in 1878, ...
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