Dancers do Degas

by Paula Newton October 18, 2017

Edgar Degas, Two Ballet Dancers, c.1879 (Image via totallyhistory.com)

The French painter, Edgar Degas, painted dancers. Now, dancers plan to dance his paintings. Playwright Daniel Ciba has put together a show about the dancers Degas painted. (Most of Degas’ paintings are of dancers.) The Boiling Point Players will start its season with Ciba’s Positions October 19-28 at Houston’s Beacon Theatre, 5102 Navigation Blvd. The description reads:

Positions is a fictional imagining of the life of the painter Edgar Degas, told by twelve of the dancers he painted. Their stories echo the history of the theater; each voice desperately struggling to present her position, as one by one they vanish from the stage. Ranging from the beautiful to the violent, these “paintings” construct a fragmented depiction of the power and chaos enacted by artists on their creations.

It sounds so Impressionistic.

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