Tag: degas little dancer

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 […]

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 […]