Photographers Ken Browar and Deborah Ory coax the images from the Paris Opéra Ballet that Edgar Degas painted from American Ballet Theatre principal dancer Misty Copeland for the March 2016 issue of Harpers Bazaar in advance of MOMA's Edgar Degas: A Strange New Beauty.

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As she channels the artist Edgar Degas's most famous ballet works ahead of a new exhibition at New York's Museum of Modern Art, dancer Misty Copeland opens up about what it feels like to make history. Video shot by Sandy Chase. Photography by Ken Browar and Deborah Ory of the NYC Dance Project.