Degas, Seen Through The Eyes Of A Dance Critic

“His views of dance … include those who aren’t dancing, those who can’t dance well yet, those who once danced but can do so no longer, and a great many of those who can but happen not to be doing so just now. … [C]ertainly no great artist has ever returned to the mechanics and sociology of the professional dancer’s art more often than Degas or has understood them so well.”