The Dance Class

  • The Dance Class

    ByDominik Szobak

    The old man with the stick is not an anonymous ballet master. He is Jules Perrot — the choreographer of Giselle, one of the greatest dancers of the Romantic ballet, who had partnered Marie Taglioni and toured Europe as a star. By 1874 he was seventy-four, retired and largely forgotten. Degas painted him from a…