A ballet based on the life of the model who posed for Degas’ bronze ballerina has opened at the Paris Opera. “La Petite Danseuse, with a cast of 60, pays tribute to the model who posed for La Petite Danseuse de Quatorze Ans, the only sculpture Degas exhibited in his lifetime. The bronze in a white tutu is in the Musée d’Orsay in Paris.” Recent research about the model indicates that she was a dancer “brought up in a poverty-stricken family of prostitutes and was jailed soon after posing for Degas, at the age of 14, in 1881.”
Tag: 04.26.03
Voting On A Book For A Country To Read
A CBC radio panel has chosen Hubert Aquin’s controversial “Prochain Episode” as the book it would most like Canadians to read in this year’s Canada Reads program. Over several programs the panel voted off other books under consideration. The final two books for the winning slot were the Aquin and Wayne Johnston’s The ‘Colony of Unrequited Dreams’. In previous days, they had debated the merits of, and had voted off, Paul Hiebert’s ‘Sarah Binks’, Yann Martel’s ‘Life of Pi’ and Helen Humphreys’s ‘The Lost Garden’.