“People call me the painter of dancing girls,” Degas later told Paris art dealer Ambroise Vollard. “It has never occurred to them that my chief interest in dancers lies in rendering movement ...

I see the history of dance as cultural and intellectual, so what are the ways that we’re going to think about how to write about this art form, which is really difficult to write about?

Firestone dance students take part in writing, movement workshop with hip hop pioneer Raphael Xavier, performing this weekend with DanceCleveland.