Boston Ballet School Dancers Brought Degas Paintings to Life The Museum of Fine Arts captured it on video to celebrate the painter's 184th birthday. Here's a look behind the scenes.

Life was cruel to ballet dancers in 19th-century France, and they didn’t have it much easier at the hands of Impressionist painter Edgar Degas.

At the ballet Degas found a world that excited both his taste for classical beauty and his eye for modern realism. ... For Bart, who joined the ballet school at age 10, it’s a labor of love.

Edgar Degas was tired of picturing dancers. For two decades he had sketched performers all over the Paris Opera Ballet, from classroom to staircase to wings. He had cheered their successes onstage ...

Almost from the beginning of the Royal Academy's "Degas and the Ballet: Picturing Movement," the curators look at a darker side of the French artist and add a splash of acerbity to the sweetness.

In collaboration with the Museum of Fine Arts, two pre-professional ballerinas from the Boston Ballet School recreated an Edgar Degas' painting from the museum's new exhibit, "French Pastels ...

Life was cruel to ballet dancers in 19th-century France, and they didn’t have it much easier at the hands of Impressionist painter Edgar Degas.

Life was cruel to ballet dancers in 19th-century France, and they didn’t have it much easier at the hands of Impressionist painter Edgar Degas.

Life was cruel to ballet dancers in 19th-century France, and they didn’t have it much easier at the hands of Impressionist painter Edgar Degas. CNN values your feedback 1.

Life was cruel to ballet dancers in 19th-century France, and they didn’t have it much easier at the hands of Impressionist painter Edgar Degas.