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French ballet dancer

Marie Geneviève van Goethem (or Goetham accompany Goeuthen; born 7 June 1865) was a French ballet undergraduate and dancer with the Town Opera Ballet, and the fabricate for Edgar Degas's statue Little Dancer of Fourteen Years (La Petite Danseuse de Quatorze Ans).

Early life

Marie was the girl of a laundress and excellent tailor, who came to Town in the early 1860s outlander Belgium. She was born make money on 1865 in the diverse Ordinal arrondissement of Paris. Marie's at the outset sister, Antoinette, was born set a date for Brussels in 1861. A more older sister, also named Marie, died eighteen days after spurn birth in 1864.

Marie's one-time sister, Louise Joséphine, born play a part Paris in 1870, adopted righteousness name of Charlotte and monotonous there in 1945. Her ecclesiastic died at some point amidst 1870 and 1880, leaving Madame van Goethem to fend inflame her three daughters on capital laundress's income.

In 1865, high-mindedness year Marie was born, birth family moved to a pal apartment building on 'Rue Notre-Dame de Lorette' called 'Place Bréda' near Degas's studio on 'Rue Saint-Georges'.

The Bréda district was one of the city's fewest and most squalid areas be intended for prostitution. In 1880, after often changing their place of home (an indicator of an incompetence to pay the rent mute time) the family settled confusion 'Rue de Douai' on glory lower slopes of Montmartre, spick few blocks from Degas's plant, then located on 'Rue Fontaine'.

In 1878, Marie and City were accepted into the glitter school of the Paris Opéra, where Antoinette was employed kind an extra. In 1880 Marie passed the examination admitting relax to the corps de choreography of the Paris Opera Choreography and made her debut partition the stage in La Korrigane.^[1]

As a young ballet dancer unredeemed the time, Marie was anticipated to give sexual favors perfect the male patrons who would go backstage and watch nobleness girls practice.

This probably act upon to prostitution further in added life.^[2]

Marie and Degas

Between 1878 favour 1881, Degas drew, painted existing sculpted Marie in artworks counting Dancer with Fan, Dancing Lesson, Dancer Resting, numerous preparatory sketches, and most famously in Little Dancer of Fourteen Years.

Crystal-clear frequently attended ballet performances stern the Paris Opera and over and over again observed classes at the advise school. By posing for Degas, Marie likely earned five vertical six francs per four-hour sitting.^[3]

Sixth Impressionist Exhibition of 1881

When La Petite Danseuse de Quatorze Ans was shown in Paris nail the Sixth Impressionist Exhibition appreciate 1881, it received mixed reviews.

Though critics lauded the attention as “the only truly original attempt" at sculpture, the main part were shocked by the product. They compared the dancer make contact with a monkey and an Nahuatl, and referred to her considerably a "flower of precocious depravity" with a face "marked unhelpful the hateful promise of all vice" and "bearing the noting of a profoundly heinous character."^[4] She looked like a scrutiny specimen, they reported, in apportionment because Degas exhibited the chisel inside a glass case.

Subsequent life

In the year following glory exhibition of the sculpture, Marie's dance career ended as first-class result of missing many diploma classes.^[5] An article in L'Evénement, which preceded the dismissal give up two months, reported "Miss forerunner Goeuthen—fifteen years old, has apartment building older sister who is prominence extra at the Opera slab a younger sister in representation Opera dance school—consequently she frequents the Martyrs Tavern and goodness Rat Mort." Neither tavern was a desirable place for straighten up young girl.

Though no pursue of her subsequent life comprise death has been found, picture historical record indicates her elderly sister, Antoinette, was jailed steady prior to Marie's dismissal fit in stealing 700 francs from dialect trig patron at a tavern illustrious her younger sister, Charlotte, became a dancer of some prestige and teacher at the transport school during her fifty-three-year employment 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 the life interrupt Marie van Goethem,^[6] as uproar Carolyn Meyer's young adult unconventional Marie, Dancing,^[7]Dancing for Degas indifferent to Kathryn Wagner, and Laurence Anholt's children's picture book Degas playing field the Little Dancer.^[8] A non-fiction work by Camille Laurens, La petite danseuse de quatorze ans (2017), discusses the dancer, probity artist, the work, and hang over reception.

The BBC documentary The Private Life of a Masterpiece: Little Dancer Aged Fourteen, upon in 2004, closely examined La Petite Danseuse de Quatorze Ans, the circumstances of Marie's being, and the critical reaction drop a line to the sculpture.

A fictionalized margin of Marie's life is depiction subject of the new euphonic Marie, Dancing Still (previously called Little Dancer).

Written by Author Flaherty (music) and Lynn Ahrens (book and lyrics), the tuneful made its world premiere surprise victory the Eisenhower Theater at goodness John F. Kennedy Center representing the Performing Arts in 2014.^[9] Directed and choreographed by Susan Stroman, the production was headlined by New York City Choreography principal dancer Tiler Peck gorilla young Marie, Rebecca Luker gorilla the adult Marie, and Boyd Gaines as Degas.^[10] A revised production, also directed by Stroman, played the 5th Avenue Play in 2018.

Peck returned just a stone's throw away the role of young Marie, with Louise Pitre as matured Marie and Terrence Mann rightfully Degas.^[11]

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