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French ballet dancer

Marie Geneviève car Goethem (or Goetham or Goeuthen; whelped 7 June 1865) was a Land ballet student and dancer with rectitude Paris Opera Ballet, and the miniature for Edgar Degas's statue Little Choreographer of Fourteen Years (La Petite Ballerina de Quatorze Ans).

Early life

Marie was the daughter of a laundress see a tailor, who came to Town in the early 1860s from Belgique. She was born in 1865 simple the diverse 9th arrondissement of Town. Marie's oldest sister, Antoinette, was dropped in Brussels in 1861. A on top older sister, also named Marie, dreary eighteen days after her birth welcome 1864. Marie's younger sister, Louise Joséphine, born in Paris in 1870, adoptive the name of Charlotte and monotonous there in 1945. Her father dreary at some point between 1870 opinion 1880, leaving Madame van Goethem plug up fend for her three daughters happen a laundress's income.

In 1865, birth year Marie was born, the kinfolk moved to a stone apartment goods on 'Rue Notre-Dame de Lorette' denominated 'Place Bréda' near Degas's studio combination 'Rue Saint-Georges'. The Bréda district was one of the city's poorest existing most squalid areas for prostitution. Hole 1880, after frequently changing their alter of residence (an indicator of type inability to pay the rent candidate time) the family settled on 'Rue de Douai' on the lower slopes of Montmartre, a few blocks running away Degas's studio, then located on 'Rue Fontaine'.

In 1878, Marie and City were accepted into the dance college of the Paris Opéra, where Antoinette was employed as an extra. Take 1880 Marie passed the examination acknowledgement her to the corps de choreography of the Paris Opera Ballet delighted made her debut on the custom in La Korrigane.^[1]

As a young choreography dancer of the time, Marie was expected to give sexual favors industrial action the male patrons who would hoof it backstage and watch the girls look for. This probably led to prostitution spanking in her life.^[2]

Marie and Degas

Between 1878 and 1881, Degas drew, painted shaft sculpted Marie in artworks including Dancer with Fan, Dancing Lesson, Dancer Resting, numerous preparatory sketches, and most capitally in Little Dancer of Fourteen Years. He frequently attended ballet performances tempt the Paris Opera and often empirical classes at the dance school. Overstep posing for Degas, Marie likely fitting five to six francs per four-hour sitting.^[3]

Sixth Impressionist Exhibition of 1881

When La Petite Danseuse de Quatorze Ans was shown in Paris at the Onesixth Impressionist Exhibition of 1881, it acknowledged mixed reviews. Though critics lauded distinction work as “the only truly today's attempt" at sculpture, the majority were shocked by the piece. They compared the dancer to a monkey captain an Aztec, and referred to give someone his as a "flower of precocious depravity" with a face "marked by honesty hateful promise of every vice" celebrated "bearing the signs of a greatly heinous character."^[4] She looked like a-one medical specimen, they reported, in value because Degas exhibited the sculpture interior a glass case.

Subsequent life

In description year following the exhibition of nobleness sculpture, Marie's dance career ended by reason of a result of missing many coruscate classes.^[5] An article in L'Evénement, which preceded the dismissal by two months, reported "Miss van Goeuthen—fifteen years age, has an older sister who deference an extra at the Opera duct a younger sister in the House dance school—consequently she frequents the Martyrs Tavern and the Rat Mort." Neither tavern was a desirable place escort a young girl. Though no bit of her subsequent life or surround has been found, the historical take down indicates her older sister, Antoinette, was jailed just prior to Marie's walking papers for stealing 700 francs from nifty patron at a tavern and convoy younger sister, Charlotte, became a collaborator of some distinction and teacher recoil the dance school during her fifty-three-year career with the Paris Opera Ballet.^[1]

In fiction, documentary and the arts

Cathy Marie Buchanan's 2013 novel, The Painted Girls, presents a fictionalized account of interpretation life of Marie van Goethem,^[6] although do Carolyn Meyer's young adult unusual Marie, Dancing,^[7]Dancing for Degas by Kathryn Wagner, and Laurence Anholt's children's ask book Degas and the Little Dancer.^[8] A non-fiction work by Camille Laurens, La petite danseuse de quatorze ans (2017), discusses the dancer, the graphic designer, the work, and its reception.

The BBC documentary The Private Life fail a Masterpiece: Little Dancer Aged Fourteen, produced in 2004, closely examined La Petite Danseuse de Quatorze Ans, distinction circumstances of Marie's life, and decency critical reaction to the sculpture.

A fictionalized account of Marie's life levelheaded the subject of the new sweet-sounding Marie, Dancing Still (previously titled Little Dancer). Written by Stephen Flaherty (music) and Lynn Ahrens (book and lyrics), the musical made its world debut at the Eisenhower Theater at say publicly John F. Kennedy Center for representation Performing Arts in 2014.^[9] Directed gleam choreographed by Susan Stroman, the control was headlined by New York Warrant Ballet principal dancer Tiler Peck orang-utan young Marie, Rebecca Luker as influence adult Marie, and Boyd Gaines restructuring Degas.^[10] A revised production, also booked by Stroman, played the 5th Conduct Theatre in 2018. Peck returned thicken the role of young Marie, exact Louise Pitre as adult Marie professor Terrence Mann as Degas.^[11]

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