The Red Ballerina Rehearses

The large-scale work La bailarina roja ensaya (The Red Ballerina Rehearses) presents a monumental figure at the moment of performing a difficult dance pose, with one foot secured to a post, a symbolic allusion to the content of a poem by Rafael Torres Sánchez. In the painting, the color red, adjective applied to the ballerina in the title, is replaced towards the stage that frames her.