![]() But when Marie meets Edgar Degas and he asks her to pose for him, Marie prays that her life is about to change forever.Īnd change it does, but not in the ways she had suspected. Antoinette is being wooed by much older, and much wealthier men, and although she promises to send them money when she's set up as a mistress by her benefactor, she never does. Things soon change, though, for Marie and her entire family. ![]() Ballet is her life, along with the life of both of her sisters, enrolled under the tutelage of Madame Theodore at the ballet school. The only thing that brings joy to Marie's life is dancing in the Paris Opera. Marie knows their family-made up of Mother, Tante Helene, older sister Antoinette, and younger sister Charlotte-are poor and destitute. Her drunken mother is unable to hold down a job, and the place where they're forced to live can only be described as squalor. With MARIE, DANCING, the story behind Edgar Degas's well known sculpture, Little Dancer Aged Fourteen, is brought to vivid life in this fictionalized account.Īt fourteen, Marie van Goethem still holds out hope that one day her life will be, if not grand, then better than it is now. I can't count the times that I've seen a truly inspiring painting or sculpture and wondered what the inspiration behind it was. ![]()
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