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She invents another world, weaves it with her steps, and builds it with her gestures into an immemorial art to unite time with space.
Through the dance, the body appropriates the freedom of the spirit thanks to the rhythm of the notes that carries it and transports it beyond all contingencies and all limits.
The lines of the drawing, the magic of the words create this spiritual vertigo, this eternal dialogue with the universe that the art reveals
to the heart of the souls.
Edgar Degas (1834-1917)
Blue dancers, around 1893
Oil on canvas, 85.3 x 75.3 cm
Paris, Musée d’Orsay, gift of the doctor and Mrs. Albert Charpentier, RF 1951 10, © Musée d’Orsay Dist. RMN- Grand Palais / Patrice Schmidt
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