How Rodin's radical dance sculptures captured the shock of modernity

Rodin was enthralled by a new generation of dancers. With its lightning sketches and an expressive bronze of Nijinsky, the Courtauld’s exhibition gives us the sculptor as choreographerWhen I think of an artist obsessed with dance, it’s Edgar Degas who comes to mind, a figure forever haunting the wings and rehearsal studios of the Paris Opera, trying to capture the elusive, impossible image of a dancer moving through space. Yet dance was no less important to Auguste Rodin, especially