What's the difference between ballerina and danseuse?
Ballerina
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Danseuse
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(n.) A professional female dancer; a woman who dances at a public exhibition as in a ballet.
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(1) He bought Petite Danseuse de Quatorze Ans (the little 14-year-old dancer) for £5m in 2004, at the height of the art boom, and loaned it to the RA.
(2) Another beauty was Petite Danseuse de Quatorze Ans by Edgar Degas , one of only a handful of bronze casts of what is an internationally famous sculpture in private hands.
(3) More than a century later and Petite Danseuse de Quatorze Ans is one of the most celebrated sculptures of the modern age – and it will again be in the spotlight as one of the highlights of Sotheby’s next big London impressionist and modern art sale, the auction house announced on Wednesday.
(4) In fact four of his contributions to the 1874 exhibition were ballet pictures, and when Edmond de Goncourt visited him in February of that year he recorded in his diary that "After many attempts, experiments, and thrusts in every direction, he has fallen in love with modern subjects and has set his heart on laundry girls and danseuses."